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May 1968

Sober for Thirty Years

One of the earliest members of the first New York AA group, he was also its first "self-proclaimed atheist" <lbBig Book Series

As NOTED in my story, "The Vicious Cycle," in the Big Book, I came into the Fellowship in New York in January, 1938. At that time it was just leaving the Oxford Group. There was one closed discussion meeting a week, at Bill's home in Brooklyn--attendance six or eight men, with only three members who had been sober more than one year: Bill, Hank, and Fritz. This is about all that had been accomplished in the four years with the New York Oxford Group.

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