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Timelines
in AA History
1935
to 1936
1935 -Dr. Bob confessed drinking problem Oxford
Group before meeting Bill (S
18)
early
35'
-Bill preached Oxford Group message, no 1 sobered up (B
233) (P 131-132)
Spring
-T. Henry Williams lost chief engineer job National Rubber
Machine Company (L
104)
Fall
-Bill & Lois began weekly meetings Tuesday nights
182 Clinton Street; 2nd A.A. group formed New York (A
10) (P 162)
Autumn
-Dr. Bob's daughter met Ernie W. Galbraith (C
11)
near
end 35'
-Alcoholics living Calvary Mission instructed not attend
meetings Clinton Street (P
169)
end
35'
-A.A. had 5 members (A
310)
April
-Dr. Silkworth told Bill quit preaching at drunks religion
usually fills them guilt or rebellion & said tell
them obsession & allergy; Bill returned Wall Street
April 1935, got involved proxy fight control small machine-tool
factory Akron (A
65) (B 233-234) (N
26-27)
May
10th
-Business deal brought Bill Akron, attend annual stockholders
meeting small machine-tool factory, lost proxy fight;
called Dr. Walter Tunks Episcopalian minister from Mayflower
Hotel get drunk talk with, talked Henrietta Seiberling
put him touch Dr. Bob (A
66) (B 235-236) (C
4, 5) (G 69) (H
355) (L 95, 197) (N
26-27) (W 156-157)
May
11th
-Dr. Tunks gives Bill Henrietta Seiberling phone, she
received call from Bill (D
60, 64) (L 95) (N
27)
May
12th
-Bill & Dr. Bob meet (A
vii) (C 4-5) (D
348) (L 197) (N
35) (P 407) (S
18)
June
-Bill 1st overnight Smiths A.A. guest (S
114)
June
1st week
-American Medical Association Convention, Dr. Bob not
missed one in 20 years (D
72) (N 32)
June
10th
-Dr. Bob's last drink, beer; A.A. born 855 Ardmore Avenue;
celebrated Founder's Day Akron (A
vii, 10, 71) (B 243) (C
5, 40-41, 124) (D 348) (E
13) (G 83) (H
199, 357) (L 96, 197) (N
33) (P 149, 407) (W
156-157)
June
28th
-A.A. #3, attorney; his wife & Dr. Bob's wife met;
Bill & Dr. Bob meet Bill D. (C
42) (N 37) (S
117)
June
29th
-Lois goes Akron, spends week with Smiths (L
197)
June
late
-Dr. Bob calls Akron City Hospital looking drunk him &
Bill work on (P
152)
July
-Lois came Akron 2 week visit (B
249)
July
4th
-Bill D., A.A. #3 left hospital (P
154)
August,
end
-4 A.A.'s, 5 counting Phil S. Bill returned New York from
Akron (B
249) (D 108)
late
August or early September
-Phil S., A.A. #5 came in (D
95)
November
19th
-Ebby stays 182 Clinton Street (L
197)
December
-Bill attended 1st Oxford Group house party Richmond Virginia
(L
103)
1935 on -Hank & Fitz joined Wilson's Oxford
Group meetings, Calvary church & number Oxford Group
house parties (P
168)
1935-1940 -Period concerned learning get sober,
creating text book & publishing business office &
board trustees guidance (G
85)
1936 -Charlie Towns owner Towns Hospital offered
Bill job lay therapist, Bill told group thus 1 A.A.'s 1st
group consciences derived; Ebby slipped after 2 years 7
months drank heavy long time later; Bill's mother 2nd husband
died; Groups oldest Dr. Bob, said, What would the Master
do? when group deciding let victim another addiction join;
Ruth Hock came work Bill & Hank P., office 17 William
Street Newark (A
100-101, 115, 159) (D 240)
(E 20) (G
82) (L 107, 197) (N
63-64) (P 176, 177, 290)
early
36'
-Dr. Bob's wife organized wives group (C
43, 132) (S 118)
middle
36'
-Small & solid A.A. group developing Bill's house
(B
252)
Fall
-Bill & Hank form small company Sharing Inc raise
money Honor Dealers project (L
101)
end
36'
-A.A. had 15 members (A
310)
January
-Paul S. early Akron A.A. meets Dr. Bob (D
111)
February
23rd
-Bill persuaded Lois quit job Loeser's department store
(L
104, 197) (P 175)
March
-A.A. had 10 members (A
302)
April
26th
-Wilson's forced out 182 Clinton Street mortgage company
sold it, in Burnham family 1/2 century, went Hank &
wife's live; lived vagabonds next 2 years, 1st 1 A.A.
family, then another, around 50 families (P
213-214)
April
26th, soon after
-Sunday meeting held Hank's & Kathleen's (P
216)
June
-Oxford Group height 10,000 people flocked Berkshires,
attend Stockbridge Massachusetts meeting, 10 day affair;
Bill & Lois attend Oxford Group house party Stockbridge;
Bill's mother 2nd husband died (L
103, 106) (P 170)
August
-New York World Telegram published article Dr. Frank Buchman
charging pro-Nazi, vindicated (P
170-171)
September
-J.H.D. joined A.A.; Lois's father Dr. Burnham died (D
111) (P 175)
October
-Bill C. young Canadian alkie, former attorney, compulsive
gambler, stayed Bill's house nearly year, committed suicide,
gas stove (B
263, 265) (P 165)
November
-Alumni Magazine included short note reference Dr. Bob's
making class reunions (D
22)
November
18th
-Ebby came live Wilson's (W
157)
December
-Bill met Charlie Towns & associate Dr. Alexander
Lambert, asked work Towns Hospital; Bill & Lois attend
Oxford Group house party Poconos Pennsylvania; 1st group
conscience (A
100-101, 115) (L 10, 107,
197) (N 63-64) (W
157-158)
1936-1937 -last time Bill serious effort reestablish
himself securities field (P
175)
1936-1942 -Ruth Hock Bill's secretary (E
20) (G 111)
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