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... Association's annual
meeting of that year.
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
The American Psychiatric Association requested, in 1949, that a
paper be prepared by one of the older members of Alcoholics Anonymous to be read at the
Association's annual meeting of that year.
2.
... association for
the area, and the General ...
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
It is in this spirit of service that we elect the A.A. group's informal rotating committee, the intergroup association for
the area, and the General
Service Conferences
of Alcoholics Anonymous for A.A. as a whole.
3.
... association hired
an A.A. member solely because ...
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
Of course, there couldn't be the slightest objection if
such an association hired an A.A. member solely because of his public relations ability and his
knowledge of alcoholism.
4.
... Association in
1946, over the NBC network, ...
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Dr. W. W. Bauer, broadcasting under the
auspices of The American Medical Association in 1946, over the NBC network, said, in part: "Alcoholics Anonymous are no crusaders; not a temperance society.
5.
... Association presents
a Lasker Group Award for ...
BB p.571(573),
Appendix IV, The Lasker Award
"The American Public Health Association presents a Lasker Group Award for 1951 to Alcoholics Anonymous in recognition of its unique and highly successful approach to
that age-old public health and social problem, alcoholism ... In emphasizing alcoholism as an illness, the social stigma associated with
this condition is being
blotted out ... Historians may one day recognize Alcoholics Anonymous
to have been a great venture in social pioneering which forged a
new instrument for social action; a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering; one having a vast potential for the myriad
other ills of mankind."
6.
... Association requested,
in 1949, that a paper ...
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
The American Psychiatric Association requested, in 1949, that a
paper be prepared by one of the older members of Alcoholics Anonymous to be read at the
Association's annual meeting of that year.
7.
... association style.
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
8.
... association that
had no membership rules?
12&12 p.172,
Tradition Nine
Did anyone ever hear of a nation, a church, a political party, even a benevolent association that
had no membership rules?
9.
... association wanted
to use our member's full ...
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
The association wanted to use our member's full name in all its advertising; he was to
be described both as its director of publicity and as a member
of Alcoholics Anonymous.
10.
... association with
one's fellows ... the 'herd instinct.'
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Dr. Foster Kennedy, neurologist:
"This organization of Alcoholics Anonymous
calls on two of the greatest reservoirs of
power known to man, religion and that instinct for association with
one's fellows ... the 'herd instinct.'
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