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June 1994

Women pioneers

From the special Grapevine publication AA Today--first published in June 1960 to celebrate AA's Twenty-Fifth Anniversary

When I attended my first AA meeting on April 11, 1939, I was the only woman alcoholic there. And I might not have been there had there not been one before me whose story I had read in the manuscript of a book called Alcoholics Anonymous. Some weeks before, my psychiatrist had handed me a red cardboard-covered document, saying flatly that he had about given up hope of being able to help me after nearly a year of intensive treatment in the sanitarium he headed. But, he added, he had just read something that might help, and he wanted me to read it. He said little more, except to remark that this group of men (the emphasis is mine) seemed to have discovered a way out of the same trouble I had--drinking.

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