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REFERENCES:
(A) ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
COMES OF AGE (AA)
(B) BILL W. by
Robert Thomsen
(C) CHILDREN OF THE
HEALER by Bob Smith & Sue Smith Windows as told to P.
Christine Brewer
(D) DR. BOB AND THE GOOD
OLD TIMERS (AA)
(E) A.A. EVERYWHERE
ANYWHERE (AA)
(G) GRATEFUL TO HAVE BEEN
THERE by Nell Wing
(H) THE LANGUAGE OF THE HEART
(AA)
(L) LOIS REMEMBERS by
Lois Wilson
(N) NOT-GOD by Ernest Kurtz
(P) PASS IT ON (AA)
(S) SISTER IGNATIA by
Mary C. Darrah
(MS) Service Manual (AA) (? year/edition)
(W) A.A., THE WAY IT BEGAN by Bill
Pittman
(BB)* BIG BOOK of ALCOHOLICS
ANONYMOUS, (AA)
Note: Each snippet is referenced: example (B
147)=Bill W. page 147, (N 283)=Not-God page 283,(P 111)=Pass It On
page 111.
* # =edition -
"named" and "unnamed" references noted seperately
- covers a liberal interpretation of 'first 164 pages'
=Preface, Forwards, Dr.Opinion, 11 chapters and Dr. Bob's story
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A.A.'s & friends at Rockefeller's dinner - Bill, Dr. Bob, Clarence
S., Morgan R., Paul S.,
Dr. Russell Blaisdell [Rockland State
Hospital], Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick
[religion], Dr. Foster Kennedy [medical
profession], Dr. Silkworth, Nelson
Rockefeller chaired father sick. (A 14,182-183) (H
62,63,66,146) (MS 11) (P 233)
Ab A. - wealthy Oklahoman offered Bill $60,000 pay debts (P
351)
Abbot - 1 of original group publishing Grapevine (A
201)
Abby G. - wife Grace;
early Cleveland A.A., lawyer, sometimes known as Al G., entered
hospital April 17 1939; 1st A.A. mtg in Cleveland met in his home May
18 1939 16 members; 1st chairman central committee Cleveland October
1939, set A.A. principle of rotation, his story "He Thought He
Could Drink Like a Gentleman" in 2nd & 3rd edition (A
21) (D 164-6,169,201-3) (G 24) (N 78,88) (S 32) (BB 2/3 210-21)
'Abercrombie' - nickname given J.D.H.
by Dr. Bob
Adler, Alfred - Freud's colleague, Bill's
mother studied under (P 290)
Agnes M. - Fitz M.'s sister, administrator
Corcoran Art School Washington D.C., lent Works Publishing Company
$1,000 help pay printer publish Big Book (A 18) (L
101-102)
Agnes S. - Los Angeles A.A., husband Bill
S. (P 288)
Al G. - see "Abby G."
Al M. - joined A.A. Los Angeles around 1941, went on 12 Step
call 2 weeks sober (P 250,292,398)
Al S. - advertising & film person New
York A.A., joined March 1944; help structure New York Intergroup,
served as secretary & director; George B.
& he instrumental persuading Knickerbocker Hospital set aside ward
for just alcoholics under A.A. sponsorship -1st New York hospital do
so; editor Grapevine late 1948, shifted editorial emphasis away
drunk stories to you're not drinking - now what; served
director A.A. Publishing Inc; trustee General Service Board; composed I
Am Responsible pledge 30th Anniversary Convention 1965 Toronto
Canada; chaired dinner 1948 with Dr. Bob & wife, Bill & wife
there, so excited couldn't remember Dr. Bob's name; led spiritual
meeting 1975 International Convention Denver; (D
322,323,337,339) (G 87-89,104,107,137) (H 391,394) (P 339,342)
Alec J. \ Alex - nickname 'Buckets',
young Finnish man Bill met Dec. 1934 on way to investigate Calvary
Episcopal Mission operated by Dr. Sam
Shoemaker's Calvary Church, went with Bill to mission, took up
residence there; (A 59) (B 214) (L 88,91) (N 18) (P
116,117,162)
Alex M. - joined A.A. 1939 (D
146,220-1,231-3,236,275,281)
Alexander, Jack - Judge
Curtis Bok asked do A.A. story Saturday Evening Post winter
1940-1941; cynical hard nose reporter; article published March 1941;
wrote 2nd A.A. article for Saturday Evening Post April 1950;
member Board Trustees early 1950's; trustee 1951-1956 (A
6,16,18,35,87,89,134,190-191,208,219) (B 310-311) (D 171-3,198,225) (E
16-17) (G 73) (H 1,63,148-9,181-182,194,248,363) (L 131) (MS 13,17) (N
100-101) (P 245-248,309,354-5,364) (S 18,114) (BB#3 named xxviii)
Alexander, Michael - junior member Bernard
Smith's law firm during designing A.A.'s General Service
Conference; upon Smith's death came general counsel A.A.; 1976-1985
A.A. Trustee; 1988 Chairman Board (G 140)
Alice T. - wife of Warren
T., early San Francisco A.A., worked with husband persuade top
management 1 America's leading railroads to help alcoholic employees (A
90)
Allen B. - trustee, chaired 1960 International Convention Long
Beach California (G 101)
Allen, Frederick Lewis - wrote on stock market 1929 (P
99n)
Alpert, Richard (Ram Dass) - along
with Dr. Timothy Leary, brought LSD to
national awareness in 1961 (P 376n)
Amos, Frank - advertising man; longtime friend John
D. Rockefeller, present meeting December 1937 Rockefeller raise
money, went Akron investigate A.A., made good report to John
D. Rockefeller Jr., recommended $50,000 contribution February
1938; became sold on A.A. & offered services; 1 of 1st
nonalcoholic trustees April 1938; died July 1965 (A
6,15,148-153,168,208) (B 274-275,277) (D 128-32,134-6,172) (E 18) (G
92) (H 59,60-1,106,143,192,194) (L 111,197) (MS 9-10) (N 65-66,68) (P
184-185,186-7,188,189n,193,203) (S 124)
Amy C. - early San Francisco A.A. (A 88)
Anderson, Dwight - with Dr.
Kirby Collier persuaded Medical Society New York State 1944 and
Psychiatric Association 1949 to let Bill read papers about A.A. at
annual gatherings (A 2,204-205) (H 370)
'Angel Alcoholics Anonymous' - Sister
Ignatia's nickname
Annabelle G. - wife Wally
G. early Akron A.A. (D
119-21,140,147,177-8,244,278,290)
Anne B. - wife Devoe B.;
friend Lois; meditation group met her house in Chappaqua; (G
13,75-76) (P 278-9)
Anne C. - A.A., knew Dr. Bob before took 1st drink (D
34,245,333,342)
Anne K. - early Detroit A.A., with Archie T.
helped & assisted A.A. growth Detroit (A 24)
Annie B. - wife of early A.A. Ed.
B. (D 274)
Annie C. - story "Annie the Cop Fighter" in 2nd
edition (BB#2 514-22)
Arba J. Irvin - Dr. Bob's Dartmouth classmate (D
24)
Archie T. - early Akron A.A., stayed with
Smiths 10 months, started Detroit A.A., story "The Fearful
One" in 1st edition - re written and re named "Man Who
Mastered Fear" in 2nd and 3rd editions (A 24) (D
115-6,182) (BB1 332-5 \ BB2 & BB3 275-86)
Armstrong, Dr. - name used to preserve Dr.
Bob's anonymity in March 1 1941 Jack
AlexanderSaturday Evening Post article
Army Sergeant Roy - see "Roy Y."
Arnold, Matthew - quoted on meaning of faith (A
320)
Arthur S. - started A.A. Johannesburg South Africa 1946 (E
46)
'Artie' - nickname of "Wheeler,
Author"
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B., Mr. - Toledo's 1st A.A. hospitalization, in obstetric ward
Women's & Children's Hospital, only place take him (D
257)
Bacon, Dr. Seldon - sociologist, appointed chairman of Conn.
Commission on Alcoholism 1945 -1st program supported by state funds (H
189)
Bamford, Bertha - Bill's childhood
sweetheart, daughter of Reverend & Mrs. W.H.Bamford, died of
internal hemorrhage November 18, 1912, age 18, at 5th Avenue Hospital
following surgery to remove tumor, started Bill on 3 year depression (B
56,61) (C 4) (N 12) (P 35-36,38,270) (W 144)
Bamford, Reverend & Mrs. W.H. - Bertha parents, Episcopal
minister Manchester Vermont (P 35-36)
Barb Wilson's spent night with her & Cy
(P 214)
Barney B. - early Los Angeles A.A. helped by Johnny
Howe & Kaye M. (A 92)
Barrow, Waldo - Bill's great uncle, killed in 1864 Battle
Wilderness (P 54)
Barry L. - joined Manhattan Group 1945; story of doing desk
duty at clubhouse on 41st Street when a black man, ex-convict, all
belongings on back, hair bleached blond, wearing makeup, dope fiend
came for help; group asked Bill what do, Bill said if he a drunk that
all mattered; anonymous author Living Sober (N
352) (P 317-318)
Bauer, Dr. W.W. - psychiatrist, American Medical Association,
nonalcoholic, spoke 2nd Intentional Convention St. Louis 1955 (A
x ii,4,235,237-44) (G 97) (P 358)
Beckwith, Peggy - President Lincoln's great granddaughter; Lois
lunched with during motorcycle trip (L 45) (P 74)
Beebe, Jamie - boyhood acquaintance Bill's (P
47)
Beebe, Jim - acquaintance Bill's grandparents, couldn't learn
to drive car (P 46)
Beery, Wallace - character in `Tugboat Annie', hid
bottles in stocking tops (D 42) (BB#3 named 177)
Belford, Reverend Lee - Trustee member 1st Archives Committee
1973 (G 127)
Ben - early Sydney A.A. in late 1944 (A 86)
Benner, Judge - former probate judge, 40 years chairman board
at City Hospital (D 130)
'Bern' - husband of Evelyn
H., Bill wrote her about slips (P 252-4)
'Bern' - nickname Smith,
Bernard B
Bert C. - 1 of 2 successes of Paddy
K. in Boston (A 96)
Bert T. - early New York A.A.; held meetings elegant 5th Avenue
tailor shop and loft 1939; put business up as collateral to borrow
$1000 keeping A.A. afloat; with Horace C.
discovered & guaranteed rent 1st A.A. clubhouse 24th Street
Clubhouse in February 1940; after Saturday Evening Post article
in early 1940's trustees sent him to Chicago & Cleveland to sound
out groups & get groups to support A.A. headquarters; early Board
member (A 11-12,177,180-1,186,192) (B 290,319)
(H 62,64-65,339) (L 116,127,172,198) (P 216-7,221,224,238)
Bertha V. - her story "Another Chance" in 3rd edition
(BB#3 526-30)
Beth B. - wife Silas B.
(L 102)
Betty B. - young student nurse City Hospital, joined A.A.
around 1970 (D 46,48-50,70,103-4)
Betty L. - worked on 12 & 12 with Bill (A
219) (P 354)
Bill A. - well-to-do early A.A.,
Washington, bought Preferred Stock in Works Publishing Inc; joined Fitz
M. in Washington D.C. area 1940 (A 188) (P
257,258n)
Bill B. - MC for Sunday activities 1960 International
Convention Long Beach California (G 103)
Bill C. - young Canadian alkie, former attorney, compulsive
gambler, stayed Bill's house nearly year, committed suicide Oct 1936
using gas stove; before died sold Wilson's clothes (B
263,265) (L 105) (P 165-166) (BB#3 unnamed 16)
Bill D. - wife was Henrietta;
A.A. #3; man on the bed; lawyer, well adjusted family man, Sister
Ignatia & Dr. Scuderi secretly treated
1935, Dr. Bob & Bill went to see June 28, 1935; story 2nd edition
Big Book; didn't support General Service Conference idea; 1st Ohio
delegate A.A. General Service Conference 1951; died September 17 1954 (A
6,7,19,71,72) (B 243-244,248) (D
82-3,85,88,90-2,96,100,106,146,169,235,246,267,276-7,325-6) (E 14,64)
(H xiii,358,360-362) (L 97) (N 37-39,74,151) (P 153-154,226,356) (S
11,21) (BB2 182-192 /BB3 182-192) (BB#3 unnamed xvii,156-8)
Bill E. - well-to-do early A.A. Washington, bought Preferred
Stock in Works Publishing Inc (A 188)
Bill G. - his story "There's Nothing the Matter With
Me!" in 2nd edition (BB2 499-508)
Bill H. - alcoholic green grocer met
Canadian mining engineer Bob B. early 1947, these
2 started A.A. group London (A 83)
Bill J. - early Akron A.A., salesman, slipped in Cincinnati, (D
119)
Bill J. - Cleveland banker (probably bank teller), received
requests for help from AA in Cleveland, stayed with Oxford Group when
Cleveland group split off (D 167,204,218)
Bill R. - early NY/NJ A.A.; attended
Tuesday night meetings Bill's with nonalcoholic wife, Kathleen,
1939 Trustee -the 'NY member' of the Board of Alcoholic Foundation
that got drunk; "A Business Man's Recovery" 1st ed Big Book (A
180)(BB1 242-251) (L 102) (P 162,188)
Bill S. - Los Angeles A.A., wife Agnes(P
287-288)
Bill S. - early Cleveland Catholic A.A. (N 84)
Bill V. - original Akron A.A., met & treated by Sister
Ignatia 1936 (S 11)
Bill V.H. - joined A.A. September 1937, his story "A Ward
of the Probate Court" in 1st edition (D
119,141,145,185,223,317,336) (BB1 296-302)
Bill W. - William Griffin Wilson,
co-founder of A.A.; died January 24 1971 11:30pm Miami Heart Clinic on
53rd wedding anniversary, emphysema complicated by pneumonia; burial
& memorial service May 8 1971 (A
vii,ix,xi,1,12,38,52-54,56,58-59,62,64-66,87-88,100-101,115,140,157,164,183-184,191,195,204-205)
(B
15,31,72,111,135-137,148-149,180-181,144,233-234,236-239,250,263,274,277,285,295,304,325,334,345,364,368,369)
(C 4-5,8,29,35) (D
12,14,37,39,43,46,57,59-60,63-4,66-83,85-88,90-3,95,97-100,104-5,107-8,111-2,121,123-8,135,140,142,148,151-4,157-9,161,164,166-9,172,174-5,177-8,
181-4,187,198,202-4,207-13,215-9,223,226,233-5,241,249,255,259,262,267-71,277,279,281,283-4,302,306-7,309-311,315,319-26,330,337,339,342-3,345)
(E 11,12,15,16,18,20,21-23,62) (G
ix,2,23,54-55,60,62,75-76,79,80,83,105,121) (H
xiii,35-6,59,62,66,94,103,106,142,144,147-148,156,165,173,196-199,205-9,212,216,239-40,244,245,246,247,267,278,279,283-284,298,313,325-7,355-7,367)
(L
1,13-14,16,18,20-21,25-26,33-34,37,73,75,80,83,88,95-96,98,103,107,111,127-128,131,135,138,157,162,166,171-172,197-198)
(MS 9,11,13,35) (N
7-14-21,26-28,32-33,35,38-41,63-64,93,98,119,126,135,251,135,251,253)
(P
13,29,36,54,59,68,77,126,139,142-143,162,169,200,232-233,247,248,272,275,311,
350,370,371,373,376,379,385, 389,391,396,398,403,407) (S
ix,5,17,18-19,119) (W
144,146-148,155,158,160,162,170,173-174,179-180,186) (BB#3 unnamed
xv,xxiii,xxv,56,96,?139,149-50,153,159,162,179)
Bill Y. - Chicago A.A. carried message with
Clan F. to Pat C. in
Minneapolis 1940 (A 95)
Billy D. - Oxford Group member, assistant superintendent
Calvary Episcopal Mission, Dr. Sam Shoemaker's
Calvary Church operated (P 117,120)
Blackwell, Edward - president Cornwall Press, Cornwall New York
(A 156,169-170,172,176) (B 287) (H 145) (P
194,204,205,207)
Blaisdell, Dr. Russell E. - head
Rockland State Hospital in Monsey, New York, Bob V.
started meetings there December 1939; let bus loads committed
alcoholics go meetings in South Orange NJ & NYC; asked Bill speak
December 1939; attended John D. Rockefeller's
A.A. dinner February 8, 1940 (A viii,12,183) (B 291)
(G 73) (H 62) (P 218,232-233) (BB#3 unnamed 163)
Bob's, Dr. -maternal grandfather - medical doctor, Dr. Bob
wanted be doctor like him (D 24)
Bob B. - Canadian mining engineer went
London early 1947 met Bill H. alcoholic green
grocer, they started A.A. London (A 83)
Bob E. - wealthy banker, joined A.A. February 1937, made AA
address books, member Akron's wealthiest families (C
132) (D 101,116-9,122-3,142,146,152,156-7,176,217,221-3) (N 53)
Bob F. - picture appeared Jack
Alexander article March 1 1941 Saturday Evening Post (P
247)
Bob H. -early A.A.; general manager General Service
Office 1968-1974; close to Bill when Bill received Catholicism
training; (D 149-50)(G 2,125) (P
255,281,321,398,399,400,401,402)
Bob G. - his story "The Salesman" in first edition (BB1
317-24)
Bob M. - Toledo, on 12 Step call with Walter
C., advised 12 Step brother of Edith M. [his
sister] =advised 12 Step himself (D 257)
Bob P. - "AA Taught Him to Handle Sobriety" in 3rd
edition of Big Book (BB3 554-561)
Bob P. -G.S.O senior advisor, trustee, helped write Alcoholics
Anonymous Comes of Age (N 266) (P 189n)
Bob R. - see E.B. Bob R.
Bob S., Dr. - Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith;
co-founder A.A.; born August 8 1879 St. Johnsbury Vermont; diagnosed
terminal cancer 1948; last appearance, talk at 1st International
Convention Cleveland 1950; died November 16 1950 of cancer (A
vii,ix,1,2,6,7,9-10,11,14,19,22f,43,66,67-71,76,87,136,141,144,145,148,149,151,152,155,164,183-184,193,206,209,211,212,214)
(B 237-239,242-243,274,295,345-346) (C
2-3,7,12,29,40,61,105,118,124,157) (D 9,46,171,255,344) (E
12-14,20,64,71) (G 3,13,55,77-78,80,83,88) (H
58,59,60-1,62,63-4,66,67-8,107-110,113,120,122,125-6,128,137,140,142-143,160,168,193,199-200,202-3,217,227,247,262,286,345-6,353-4,
354-60,359,360,373-6) (L 95-96,145-155) (MS 9,11,16,109) (N
28-33,38-41,65,79,119,316,346) (P
76n,100,130,137-49,151-8,162,166,171,177-81,184-5,187-9,190,194,196,197,200,221,225,232-233,234,236,248,256,266,268,275,280,301,316,320-3,326,
328,330-4,336-42,357,358,407) (S ix,8-9,1718,32,114,123,140,144,186)
(W 156) (BB1 183-93) (BB2/3 171-81) (BB#3 unnamed xv,102,155,159)
Bob T. - early delegate, Mississippi lawyer, drew up Conference
resolution not to ask for Congressional Charter (A
126-127)
Bob V. - wife Mag; farm
house Wilson's stayed fall 1939; rooms called Upper & Lower
Siberia, located Bog Hollow Monsey New York; started meetings Rockland
State Hospital December 1939, executive pharmaceutical house, started
several groups South American counties, later slipped (A
viii,11,179) (B 291) (L 122,127) (P 218)
Bobbie B. - replaced Ruth Hock as AA
secretary 1942; former dancer, member A.A.; present when some blacks
came to a meeting with Southerners there, blacks were invited back as
visitors (A 16,195,196) (B 334) (D 149) (H 66,152,169)
(L 141) (P 304,317)
Bock, Christine - Bill's
father's 2nd wife, had daughter Helen,
died January 6 1955 (B 73) (L 70) (P 80,362)
Boethius - one of possible authors of Serenity
Prayer (P 258n)
Bok, Judge Curtis - owner &
publisher Saturday Evening Post magazine; heard about A.A. from
2 Philadelphia friends Drs. A. Wiese Hammer
& C. Dudley Saul; asked Jack
Alexander do A.A. story (A 18,190) (H 63,181,363)
(L 131) (N 100) (P 244-245)
Borton, T. E. - not alcoholic, meetings held in his home in
Cleveland (A 21,209)
'Boss' - Bill's nickname for Burnham,
Dr. Clark
Bove, Jessica - nonalcoholic secretary New York A.A.; wrote Grapevine
article 'From Outside Looking In' (G 41)
Boyle, Dr. Ed - see "Ed B, Dr"
'Boys at Central Garage' - drove Dr. Bob home when drunk (C
117) (D 40)
Brock, Ella - Bill's grandmother, see "Griffith,
Ella Brock"
Brooke B. - from Calvary Mission attended Tuesday night
meetings Bill's house (L 102) (P 162)
Brooks, Mrs. - Burr & Burton's headmaster's wife, gave Bill
singing lessons (B 54)
Brooks, James - Principal Burr & Burton, announced Bertha
Banford's death, also pall bearer (B 60-61)
(N 12) (P 36)
'Brotherhood' - those worked at Calvary Episcopal Mission 23rd
Street New York, operated by Dr. Sam
Shoemaker's Calvary Church (P 115-116)
Brown, Dr. - Evanston Indiana, introduced several patients to Earl
T. (A 22)
Brown Family - a poor family that shared Christmas dinner 1925
with Bill & Lois during motorcycle trip (L 46)
Brown, Robert Lee - sharecropper trying raise tobacco, very
poor, invited Bill & Lois who on road share Christians dinner,
turnip greens, sweet potato custard (B 158)
Browne, Lewis - wrote This Believing World, book Bill
valued (G 22)
Bruce H. - 1st use radio carry A.A. message in Jacksonville (A
25)
Bruce M. - met Dr. Bob 1942 & 1943, sober 1945 Canton Ohio (D
276-7)
'Buckets' - see "Alec"
Buchman, Dr. Frank N. D. - born
June 4 1878; reared deeply religious Lutheran home, student Muhlenberg
College, Mount Airy Seminary; visited England 1908, at Keswick
Convention heard speaker, changed life; founder/ leader Oxford Group
1921 after spiritual experience traveling Scotland; strongly advocated
1 on 1 relationship helping others; principle sharing after
conversion; 1st 'house party' Calling China, became Oxford Group
technique, guided make restitution & confession; met Samuel
M. Shoemaker Peking January 1918; died 1961 (C 3)
(D 53,55,69,155,158-9) (G 68) (H 196) (L 92) (N 48-49) (P
127,128,130,131,169-71,174,219,246,386-7) (W 113-118)
Bud G. - Little Rock Arkansas, so anonymous leader spoke behind
curtain 1,200 people (L 143)
Bud F. - Los Angeles A.A. (P 288)
'Buffalo' Bill - circus performer (P 30)
'Bum from St. Louis' - what Tom M.
caretaker 24th Street Clubhouse called Father
Dowling when he came to visit Bill 1940
'Bunky' - nickname for Jellinek, Dr.
E. M. -Ph.D.
Burke, Ted - flew Bill & Ebby
Manchester Airport 1929, 1st plane to land there, all were drunk (G
58) (P 83) (BB#3 9)
Burneson, Virginia - managing editor Grapevine March
1952, wrote Sister Ignatia for Bill
reference errors in Grapevine articles about hospitalization
plan called Knickerbocker Plan (S 148)
Burnham, Dr. Clark - Lois's
father, gynecologist & surgeon, Brooklyn, married Matilda
Spelman who died Christmas 1932; remarried Joan
Jones in May 1933, moved out 132 Clinton Street early 1933; died
September 1936 (B 47,79-80,127,177) (L 1-2,84,106) (N
14,25) (P 33,63,87,98,99,164,175,213) (BB#3 unnamed 4,5)
Burnham, Kitty - Lois Burnham's
sister, married Gardner Swentzel 17
June 1925, Lois was matron honor (B 111,156,180) (L
60) (P 75,90)
Burnham, Lois - Bill W's wife, see "Wilson,
Lois Burnham"
Burnham, Lyman - boyhood acquaintance Bill's (P
47)
Burnham, Mrs. - Lois' mother, see "Spelman,
Matilda"
Burnham, Nathan Clark - Lois' grandfather, practiced law,
medicine, minister Swedenborg Church Lancaster, wrote book Discrete
Degrees about relation between spiritual & natural life (L
2)
Burnham, Roger - Lois Burnham's brother & Bill's friend,
told Lois of Bill, best man at their wedding; died December 1970 (B
111) (G 57) (L 74) (P 39,47,58,83)
Burwell, Jim - see "Jimmy B."
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'Captain Jack' S. - from Maine, captain oil taker; discovered
A.A. 1947; organized Internationalist's Seamen Group 1949 (A
82) (E 32) (G 10) (L 141)
Carlin sisters - rented top floor of Wilson's house at 182
Clinton Street 1933-1935 (L 105)
Carlo I. - member Italian parliament, 12
stepped Roberto C., both spearheaded effort for
Italian Big Book (E 51-52)
Carlson, Dr. Anton - 1937 with group scientists formed Research
Council on Problems of Alcohol (H 187)
Caroline P. - nurse, sister of Dorothy
S.M., married Hank P.; took Multilith Big
Book Chicago doctor (D 180)
Carrell, Dr. Alexis - wrote book on prayer called Man, The
Unknown (H 105)
Carry -housekeeper at Stepping
Stones, her niece Harriet often helped (L
157)
Cayce, Edgar - famous psychic (G 75)
Cebra G. - Manchester judge's son, did
considerable drinking with Ebby, joined
Oxford group, he & Roland tried help Ebby,
kept Ebby out jail August 1934 (L 93) (N 9) (P 113)
(BB#3 9)
Cecil C. - his story "Those Golden Years" in 3rd
edition (BB3 327-34)
Cecil M - her story "Fear of Fear" appears in 2nd and
3rd editions of Big Book (called Jane in the story) (BB2
330-5 / BB3 321-6)
Chambers, Whittaker - magazine writer (A 256)
Chan F. - Chicago A.A. carried message with
Bill Y. to Pat C. in
Minneapolis 1940 (A 95)
Charles "C. J." K. - both he
& Eddie B were in state insane asylum Toledo
voluntary commitments summer 1939, read manuscript Big Book, got out;
they 12 stepped Duke P. in Toledo (D
253)
Charlie B. - alcoholic, with help of nonalcoholic candy
manufacture started AA groups in Vancouver British Columbia (A
84)
Charlie J. - early Cleveland A.A. (D 167)
Charlie P. - participated Big Book
seminars with Joe McQ. (G 112)
Charlie S. - his story "Riding the Rods" in 1st
edition (BB1 303-16)
Charlotte L. - office worker March 1947 Alcoholic Foundation (G
5)
Chessman, Caryl - convicted murder, 12 years death row, wrote
autobiography Cell 2455 Death Row; Jack
Alexander suggested he write Bill due to close resemblance between
criminal psychopath & alcoholic, both unconsciously destroy
themselves, Bill wrote back; executed May 2 1960 (P
364-6)
Chet M. - former patient state insane
asylum Toledo, signed out patients take to Toledo meetings (D
256)
Chet R - his story "It Might Have Been Worse" in 2nd
& 3rd edition (BB2 382-92 / BB3 373-83)
'Chip' - nickname for A. LeRoy Chipman
Chipman, A. LeRoy - nickname 'Chip',
John D. Rockefeller associate; became
sold on A.A. & offered services; present at meeting December 1937
Rockefeller raise money; persuaded John D.
Rockefeller loan A.A. $8,000; trustee & treasurer board
Alcoholic Foundation April 1938; (A
15,148,151,180,189,208) (B 274,277) (H 59-60,148,192,194) (MS 13) (P
184,185,188,202,227,228)
Chris - Dr. Silkworth sent to see
Bill, got Bill job selling wire rope for Paulson & Weber, came A.A.
sobered up, slipped never came back (L 120,130)
Chrys - visited Bill and Lois in 1939 (P 217)
Chuck - wife Lee, 1st
alcoholic arrive in Los Angeles from East, artist, arrived just in
time attend 1st home meeting at Kaye's place
Benecia Avenue December 19, 1939 (A 92)
Chuck C. - Los Angeles A.A. (P 348)
'City folks' - big city people who vacation in Vermont (P
39)
Clarence P., Dr. - A.A. member, chaired 20th Anniversary
Convention's Medical Panel (A 235)
Clarence S. - Dorothy
S.M. was wife; early Cleveland A.A., led revolt & announced
special meeting of alcoholics separate from Oxford Group; started
& founded group Cleveland group May 18 1939 Cleveland Heights home
of Abby G., 1st group called Alcoholics
Anonymous, 16 members; called himself Father of Alcoholics
Anonymous; attended John D. Rockefeller's
A.A. dinner February 8, 1940; leader of group of dissident anti
Conference & anti General Service Office, his story "Home
Brewmeister" in all 3 editions of Big Book (A
19-20,183) (C 49,131) (D
101,109,115,142-5,208-11,216,218-9,241,245,248,252,261,263,265,267-8,270-1,312-3)
(G 50,103) (N 75,78,84) (P 203,224,255,257) (S 32,155) (BB1 274-81 /
BB2 & BB3 297-303)
Clem L. - A.A., Bill wrote in 1948 about organized religion (P
283)
Clementine, Reverend Mother - administrator St. Thomas Hospital
when Sister Ignatia there (D
189-90)
Cliff W. - California A.A.; Dorothy
was wife; Mort J. helped get sober; proposed
G.S.O. publish Bill's correspondence with Yale declining honorary
degree (A 93) (L 157)
Clint F. - Greenland Long Island New York,
1st met Bill at J.K. Rice Jr. & Co., he was telephone trader,
drinking companion of Bill's from good old days, introduced Bill to Joe
Hirshhorn, wife Kay, came to A.A. 1948 (B
175) (L 75) (P 77-9,93-8,160,161)
Cobb, Ty - baseball player (P 30)
Cochran, David - boyhood acquaintance of Bill's (P
47)
Cockran, Mr. - Prohibitionist, lent Bert
T. money keep to Works Publishing going; also refered to as
"Mr. G." (A 177-178) (L
116) (P 144,150n)
Cohen, Dr. Sidney - psychiatrist Los Angeles Veterans
Administration Hospital, present/ guiding Bill when he took LSD August
29 1956 (P 370-371,375)
Collier, Dr. Kirby - psychiatrist, with
Dr. Harry Tiebout & Dr.
Foster Kennedy responsible Bill speaking 2 medical societies,
endorsed paper Bill read 1944 Medical Society of New York annual
meeting, early A.A. advocate (A 2,204,244) (G 67) (H
156,370) (MS 15) (P 334)
Colvin, David Leigh - with Yale School for Alcohol Studies, ran
for president of US on Prohibition ticket (H 188)
Conor F. - Irish born A.A., tavern owner
Philadelphia started A.A. Dublin Ireland, 1st person helped was Richard
P. (A 83) (E 43)
Coolidge, Calvin - US president (D 16,112)
Copping, Clifford - boyhood acquaintance of Bill's (P
47)
Cornell, Shep - see "Shep C"
Costello, Spoons - Oxford Group member, kitchen worker at
Calvary Episcopal Mission (P 117)
Cowles, Edward -Dr. - theory of alcoholism treatment involved
draining spinal fluid (BB#3 unnamed 179)
Craske, Dr. Dan - referred Sadie
to Earl T in Chicago 1939 (A 22)
Crecelius, Ruth Hock - see "Hock (Crecelius),
Ruth"
Cultice, Grace - Sylvia's Chicago
nonalcoholic secretary, helped start A.A. there (A 22)
(D 181)
Cy - Wilson's spent night with Cy & Barb(P
214)
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D. S. - wrote Grapevine about Dr. Bob and 11th Tradition
(D 264)
Dale A. - Seattle Washington A.A. (A 95)
Dan K. - early Akron A.A., patient Dr. Bob's at St. Thomas
Hospital (D 192,224-5,233,275,281-2,296)
Dancey, Dr. Travis - Canadian, worked with Dave
B. help spread A.A. Canada, 1st Canadian trustee General Service
Board (E 36) (G 112)
Darrah, Mary C. - author Sister Ignatia (S
iv,ix)
Dave B. - founder A.A. Montreal, 1st French
members, sobered up reading Big Book his sister sent him; alcoholic
trustee (A 85) (E 37) (G 112)
Dave D. - Palo Alto California A.A.;
introduced Bill to Gerald Heard, british
philosopher, anthropologist, metaphysician, radio commentator, mystery
novelist; interested mysticism, psychic phenomena, writer, student
Easter & Western religious (G 74-75) (L 143) (P
290,378)
Dave M. - A.A. member, personnel man at DuPont, co-led
industrial meeting with Jake H. A.A. 15th
anniversary (H 118)
Dave R. - Jersey boiler inspector brought A.A. Charlotte North
Carolina (A 25)
Davis, Elrick B. - newspaper writer, probated from nut house,
wrote 5 part series AA articles Cleveland Plain Dealer, set off
unprecedented wave A.A. growth Cleveland (A 20,134) (D
203-204,210) (H 62,180,248) (N 83,85) (P 224) (S 155-156)
Day, Sherry - clergyman, converted by Dr.
Frank Buchman (P 127-128)
Devoe B. - Husband of Anne
B.; meditation group met his house Chappaqua; Friday meeting once
help Bill cope isolation A.A.; Bill, Lois, Nell Wing, Devoe B., Gerald
Heard, Aldous Huxley, Dave D. David & Lucille Kahn, Edgar Cayce
attended (G 75-76)
Dick P. - perhaps 1st Spanish speaking A.A.,
joined Cleveland A.A. early 1940, achieved citizenship 1963, manager
Cleveland Central Office, translated Big Book into Spanish, finished
1946, (AACOA says Frank M.
translated) gave Bill the book, tried start A.A. Mexico, no
luck (A 200) (D 249)
Dick R. - 1st convert Earl T., Chicago A.A.
(A 22) (D 177)
Dick S. - AA#7, from Akron, Paul S.'s
brother, Paul tried to get Dick in A.A. February 1937; picture
appeared Jack Alexander March 1941 Saturday
Evening Post article; liked Twelve Steps way 1st written; early
Board member, his story "The Car Smasher" in 1st edition
rewritten and retitled "He Had to be Shown" for 2nd and 3rd
editions (A 162,186) (D 111,127,169,185,288,306,330-1)
(P 247) (BB1 364-9) (BB2/3 193-209)
Dick, Uncle - see "Richardson,
Reverend Willard (Dick) S."
Ditman, Dr. Keith - research psychiatrist University California
(P 375)
'Doc' - Bill's nickname Dr. Bob, see "Bob
S., Dr."
Doc H. - Portland Oregon chiropractor (A 95) (P
288)
Doctor Bob - see "Bob S., Dr."
Doherty S. - responsible starting more groups Indiana than
anybody (D 258)
Don G. - volunteer editor of Grapevine (H
158)
Don L. - 1st alcoholic patient Rosary Hall St. Vincent Charity
Hospital December 15, 1952 (S 175)
Don V. - had good mortgage business, asked Bill investigate 2
companies, Bill's last job before giving A.A. full self, offered to
finance Stepping Stones (L 131,133)
Donovan, Colonel - recommended Bill for Supply Service in WWII,
March 1942 (P 272)
Dorothy J. - early member of Akron
group, Roland's wife (D 243)
Dorothy O. - wife of Jud O. (D
233,236,279-80,290)
Dorothy S.M. - Clarence
S. was her 1st husband (A 19-20) (C 131) (D
101,115,142-6,151-4,162,164-5,167,171,180,182,200-4,206-8,233-5,243,249,262,278,292,309-13)
(N 84)
Dorothy W. - wife of Cliff W. Los
Angeles A.A. (A 94)
'Dot' - early New York A.A., Wilson's stayed with -- see
also "Wilson, Dorothy Brewster"-
Bill's sister called 'Dot'(P 214)
Dowling, Father Edward -S.J. (Father
Ed) - St. Louis Jesuit priest; nonalcoholic; nickname 'Puggy';
visited Cincinnati 1940 read Big Book, got interested in A.A.'s 12
Steps parallels with Exercises of St. Ignatius
spiritual discipline Jesuit Order; went to Akron see Dr. Bob &
members Alcoholic Squadron Oxford Group, never heard St. Ignatius
& Spiritual Exercises, referred to Bill New York, meet Bill rainy
night 1940 at 24th Street Clubhouse, Tom M.
caretaker of club called him 'some bum from St. Louis'; Bill
took 5th step that night with him had 2nd conversion experience;
editor Queen's Work -a Catholic Publication; became Bill's
spiritual advisor & close friend next 2 decades; responsible
founding A.A. St. Louis; 1 of 1st religious leaders endorse A.A. 1940;
spoke 2nd Intentional Convention St. Louis 1955; tried LSD cause Bill
asked; died April 2 1960 (A
xii,2,4,37,38,43,195,253f,254-61) (B 307-309) (E 15,72) (G
48,53,65-66,77,86) (H 179,268-9,364-366) (L 131) (N 98) (P
240,241-243,272,281,354,358,361,371,385,387) (S 25-26)
Dr. Bob - see "Bob S., Dr."
Duffy, Clinton T. - liberal warden at San
Quentin prison, 1st known corrections official in country to permit
A.A. meeting inside maximum security prison 1942, Bill spoke 420
inmates November 28 1943; spoke A.A. 15th anniversary; present 25th
Anniversary 1960 Long Beach California; died 1982 (A
89f) (E 62,72) (G 74) (H 118-9) (P 289)
Duke P. - early A.A. Toledo, salesman, wife
Katie P., 12 stepped by Charles
("C.J.") K. & Eddie B.,
admitted City Hospital, did 12 Step with 36 hours sobriety Youngstown (D
150-1,176,253-257,267,290)
Dunlea, Father T. V. - October 1944
started A.A. Australia, associated with Rydalmere Mental Hospital
Sydney & Australian psychiatrist S.J.
Minogue (E 41) (A 85)
'Dutch' - Bill & Hank P. nickname for Ruth Hock, see "Hock
(Crecelius), Ruth"
'Dynamite Man' - nickname 'Icky',
explosive expert, commissioned blow up pier in Houston Harbor, wrong
one (A 80)
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E.B. 'Bob' R. - his story "He Who Loses His
Life" in 2nd and 3rd edition (BB#2 540-52, BB#3
531-43)
Earl M., Dr. - psychiatrist; learned A.A. from butcher Ed
M; co-chairman 20th Anniversary Convention's Medical Panel, his
story "Physician, Heal Thyself" in 2nd & 3rd edition (A
4,237) (P 301) (BB2 393-400 / BB3 345-52)
Earl T. - early Chicago A.A. -founder
Chicago group; his suggestion that Bill codify A.A. experience in late
1945 became "12 Points to Assure Our Future" then shortened
into "12 Traditions" in 1949, his story "He Sold
Himself Short" in 2nd & 3rd edition (A
22,203,213) (D 179-81) (G 20) (H 154) (L 147) (P 225-6,334) (BB2 &
BB3 287-96) (BB#3 unnamed 135)
Ebby T - Bill's sponsor; Bill's
childhood friend Burr & Burton school days; family prominent
Albany 3 generations kept summer home Manchester Vermont; sold
insurance, worked investment broker;1929 he, Bill, and pilot flew into
Manchester airfield drunk, 1st people land there; drove drunk into
kitchen of house -asked cup coffee; had alcoholic problem but visited
Bill sober 1934 -brought program sobriety learned from Oxford Group,
returned with Shep C; asked Bill visit Calvary
Church 23rd Street Oxford Group U.S. headquarters led by Reverend
Sam Shoemaker; visited Bill Towns Hospital brought book Varieties
Religious Experience; came to live at Wilson's November 18 1936,
drunk May 1937; drank heavily afterward, longest sober period 6 years
-taught Bill have faith in message not always messenger; Bill
requested he receive monthly check life; guest Stepping Stones; died
sober March 21, 1966 (A vii,46,58,62,64,140,179) (B
202-204,207,211,229-230,263,273) (C 4) (D 91) (E 11) (G 9,92,98-99) (H
196-199,244-245,277-279,283-284,298,313,367-368) (L 93-94,118,139,197)
(N 7-9,16-21,33-35) (P
33,34,60,83-4,111-20,122n,124,126,131,143,162,177,178,335,336,358,381,393)
(W 151,154,157) (BB#3 unnamed xvi,8-14)
Ed - salesman, Larry J. helped in Texas,
sobered up in Houston, took AA to Austin (A 24)
Ed A. - early Ohio A.A. (G 25)
Ed B. - member office staff with Nell Wing;
relative famous American painter, been successful writer & editor,
alcohol ruined career; discharged from Rockland State Hospital;
laryngectomy unable speak; helped Bill edit 2nd edition Big Book (D
148,150,224,228-30,271,274-5,325-6) (G 15,121) (P 354)
Ed B. - early Akron A.A., wife Annie(D
148,274) (P 354,357)
Ed B, Dr. - Bill's doctor, Miami
Heart Institute, with Bill in May & June 1970 trying to get him
ready for convention in July; on Lear jet January 24 1971 from Bedford
Hills New York to Miami Heart Clinic; arranged for Bill's body
be kept in Miami until New England ground thawed for Bill's burial (B
368) (G 1,3) (L 160) (P 399-402)
Ed E. - offer Bill & Lois use Connecticut farmhouse
"Dun Nibblin" (L 125)
Ed G. - early St. Johnsbury Vermont A.A., Fellowship Group
member (D 300)
Ed M. - early Akron A.A., had meat market
West Exchange Street, Dr. Bob would stop in & chat (D
271,277)
Ed V. - Bill bought old Stutz car from him, rumor he took money
went drinking (L 134)
Ed W. - former sales manager, Bill took home to try and sober
up (B 233)
Eddie B. - Toledo based salesman; with Charles
("C.J.") K. was state insane asylum Toledo voluntary
commitments, summer 1939, read Big Book manuscript, got out; they then
12 stepped Duke P (D 253)
Eddie F. - U.S. A.A., sobered up Boston, founder A.A. El
Salvador 1954, called there Mr. Eddie (E 47)
Eddie R. - prominent Youngstown family;
wife Ruth university professor, surrendered in
Oxford Group; 1st person Bill & Dr. Bob tried help, sent by J.C.
Wright, hoped would be A.A. #3, failed; he & her 2 children
lived with Dr. Bob & Annie; caused lot problems, threatened Annie
with butcher knife; example ineffectiveness of wet nursing. He
eventually got sober in 1949 at the Youngstown Ohio group (A
72) (B 249) (C 5,41-42) (D 77-78,80-1,85,93,97,99) (L 97) (P
151-2,159n) (BB#3 124)
Eddy, Mary Baker - Christian Science founder, readings
influenced Bill to the dangers of single person leadership (B
188) (G 25) (P 230,231n)
Edison, Thomas - inventor, Bill was offered job at his lab (P
65,66,144)
Edith M. - Bob M.'s
sister (D 257) (P 214)
Edna McD. - wife early Cleveland A.A., county visiting nurse,
helped get beds alcoholics Cleveland's Deaconess Hospital (A
20) (D 201)
Eleanor E. - heard Dr. Bob & Bill speak 1946, didn't know
who they were until 1966 (D 300)
Elgie R. - Oxford Group member; joined A.A.
April 1939, John R.'s wife, made AA address
books, 12 stepped Ethel & Rollo
M. (C 50) (D
80-1,128,146,155,166,177,179,213,216-8,236-8,242-4,252,278,286,289-90,296-7,311,314)
Elinor R. - wife of Frank
R. in Los Angeles (P 288)
Eisenhower, Dwight D. - sent telegram good wishes A.A.'s 2nd
International Convention (A 36-7)
Elizabeth D. - wife of Herb
D., Americans carried A.A. to Brazil (E 47)
Emily S. - her & husband Harold
S. constantly opened Flatbush home for A.A. meetings (L
127) (P 217)
Emma K. - A.A., cared along with husband Lavelle
K. for Dr. Bob & Annie their last years at 855 Ardmore Avenue
Akron (C 61) (D
17,30,43,244,289,309,317-8,322-23,327,329-33) (N 336)
Ernest M. - attended Tuesday night meetings Bill's house (L
102) (P 162)
Ernie G - Akron - A.A. #4; Akron, 1st
young person -30 years old, 1st slipper, salesman, considered almost
too young; drank 7 months after year sober; story "7 Month
Slip" 1st edition Big Book; met Dr. Bob's
daughter 1935, 14 years older, married September 1941, married 24
years divorced 1965; quit drinking 1946 (A 6,73) (B
248) (C 11-13,48,51-53) (D
20,92-93,95-6,98-100,105-6,112,140,141,143,258) (L 97) (P 154-5,226)
(BB1 282-6) (BB#3 158,159)
Ernie G. - Toledo - 1939, early
member from Toledo, wife is Ruth G. (D
141,148,175,226,235,253,256.258,265,300,312-3)
Eskimo - used in example of trying to run away from alcohol (BB#3
101)
Estelle, W.J. (Jim) Jr. - chairperson General Service Board
Alcoholics Anonymous (E 7)
Esther E. - started group Dallas Texas, her story "A
Flower of the South" in 2nd & 3rd edition (L
144) (A 24) (BB2 343-54 / BB3 384-95)
Ethel M. - 1st A.A. Akron women stay
sober any time, Rollo M.'s wife, she weighed 300
pounds/ husband was little guy, both 12 stepped May 1941 by John
& Elgie R., her story "From Farm to
City" in 2nd & 3rd edition (D
223,243-244,284) (S 124) (BB2/3 261-74)
Evans, Dick - Oxford Group member got Bill job 1936 collecting
proxies on behalf investment trust Harrisburg Pennsylvania (L
105)
Eve M. - former staff member, helped revive interest in
"12 Concepts" (G 27)
Evelyn H. - Bill wrote her about slips,
her husband 'Bern' slipped (P
252,254)
Everett - husband of Dr. Bob's office
girl Lillian (C 124)
Exman, Eugene 'Gene' - religious editor Harper
& Brothers publishing company; encouraged publication Big Book
after reading 1st 2 chapters, offered $1,500 advance, Bill turned down
(A 153-5,219) (B 279) (E 23) (G 74) (H 143) (L 111)
(MS 10) (N 68) (P 193,194,356)
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Farragut, Admiral - US naval hero during Civil War, Bill 'met'
the spirit of one of his sailors (P 276,278)
'Father Ed' - see "Dowling,
Father Edward -S.J.".
Felicia G., Countess - her story "Stars Don't Fall"
in 2nd and 3rd edition (A 102) (BB2
401-18 / BB3 400-17)
Feller, Bob (Robert William Andrew) - pitched no-hit baseball
game Cleveland Indians May 1940, Rollie H. was
catcher for game, got lot of publicity (D 251) (N
85-86)
Ferguson, Dr. George A. - friend Smiths, operated on Anne's
cataract, most prominent eye doctor Akron, took Dr. Bob home when
drunk (C 145) (D 129)
Firestone, Harvey - Dr.
Tunks was his minister; brought 60 Oxford Group people Akron for
10 days gratitude after helping son quit drinking 1/2 year (N
27) (S 19)
Fitz M. (John Henry Fitzhugh M.) - 2nd man
recover Towns Hospital 1935; strongly religious; came to Tuesday night
meetings at Bill's house 1935-37; spring 1937 went home to Maryland,
trying start A.A. group there; present at meeting December 1937 Rockefeller
raise money; led Big Book conservatives wanted more Christian
doctrine, insisted Big Book should express Christian doctrine &
use Biblical terms & expressions; looked at Library Congress for
number books named Way Out-12, number named Alcoholics
Anonymous-0; loner Washington D.C. joined by Hardin
C., Bill A. & Florence
R. started Washington Group in 1940; wrote story "Our
Southern Friend" (A 17-8,74,162,166) (B
250,263,274,282,286) (D 108) (E 25) (G 111) (H 13,107, 200) (L 107) (N
334) (P 161-162,168,191,199,257) (BB1 226-41 / BB2 460-70 / BB3
497-507) (BB#3 unnamed xxix,56)
Florence B. - Freddie
B.'s wife, divorced after Freddie sober (L 94)
Florence R. - Bill knew her husband Wall Street; Bill &
Lois got her out Bellevue; 1st female drunk stay Bill's house; only
female NY A.A. when names for Big Book discussed -objected calling it
100 Men; her story in 1st edition "Feminine Victory"; helped
Fitz M. start Washington Group; returned to
drinking died apparent suicide in Washington D.C. (A
18) (B 263-264) (E 25) (L 107) (P 202) (BB1 217-225)
Florman, Nils - headed rival group in proxy fight over National
Rubber Machinery Company (P 134-5,157-8)
Ford, Henry - asked head man A.A. to come Detroit to help a
friend -Bill went (L 121) (BB#3 named 124)
Forest H., Dr. - early Los Angeles A.A.
helped by Johnny Howe & Kaye
M., became marathon 12 Stepper around Los Angeles; wife Merle(A
92) (P 287)
Fosdick, Dr. (Reverend) Harry Emerson -
highly respected minister Riverside Church New York; completely
satisfied with Big Book, wrote good reviews June 1939 which were
reprinted by religious publications; spoke for religion at Rockefeller's
February 1940 dinner; 1st clergyman recognize A.A. (A
viii,15,168,173,183-184,322f) (B 286-287,295) (G 73,86) (H
62,145-6,177) (L 116,198) (N 75,93) (MS 11) (P 201,223,232-233) (BB#3
named xvii-iii)
Four Horsemen - plagues of alcoholics (BB#3
named 151)
Francis C. - gave Bill a suit, late 1940 (P
241)
Francis H. - young Boston A.A., read Lois's book, offered help
her late 1982; came Stepping Stones January 1983, 1st as caretaker,
then secretary, stayed till Lois's death (G 139)
Francis J. - wife Mort
J., Los Angeles A.A. (A 94) (P 288)
Francis, Saint - see "Saint
Francis of Assisi"
Francis, Sister - owned & operated Joy Farm in Kent
Connecticut; early A.A.'s New York & Connecticut took over as
drying out place; 1940's renamed High Watch Farm (A
181) (G 23) (L 122,199)
Francisco, Tex - huge ex-drunk ran Calvary Episcopal Mission;
led meeting Bill went to there (A 59) (B 215) (L 88)
(N 18) (P 117,118) (W 152)
Frank M. - Alcoholics
Anonymous Comes of Age says he translated Big Book to
Spanish, Dr. Bob & Good Oldtimers
states Dick P. did it (A 200)
Frank M. - A.A. archivist 1982 & administrative assistant
General Service Office; secretary Trustees' Archives Committee (G
112,126)
'Frank, Old' - East Dorset's shoemaker, taught Bill
about nature (B 24)
Frank R. - A.A., read Big Book Arizona, book convert rushed to
Los Angeles to see if true, wife Elinor (A
93-94) (P 288,389-90,392)
Frank R. - trustee Boston area (P 389)
Frank S. - Los Angeles A.A. (P 288)
Franklin, Benjamin - one of US founding fathers (A
267)
Frazer, Clint - see "Clint F"
Fred - early San Francisco A.A. (A 88)
Fred B. - see "Freddie B"
Fred K. - New Jersey A.A. help start A.A. Miami (A
25)
Freddie B. - wife Florence,
divorced after sober; chemistry professor; after Bill spoke Oxford
Group came talk to Bill & became friends; drank off & on 11
years before sober in A.A., attended Tuesday night meetings Bill's
house (L 94,102) (P 132,162,335)
Freddie S. - joined A.A. with wife Vi
S. May 1941, former mayor of Akron, is the 'Victor' who
wrote 13th Step with 'Lil' (D
97-9,245-6)
Freud, Sigmund - Viennese psychiatrist (A 3) (D
12,338) (H 282)
Fulton Sheen - see "Sheen,
Monsignor Fulton"
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G., Mr. - put up money to help Works
Publishing Company after Bert T. put
tailor shop as collateral; also see "Cochran,
Mr."
Galbraith, Ernie W. - see "Ernie G
- Akron"
Gallagher, Father J.G. - worked with Sister
Ignatia (D 221)
Gammeter, John - neighbor Henrietta
Seiberling, put Bill up at Portage Country Club; self made man son
of washer woman, started B.F. Goodrich Company (P 144)
Garth M. - new Toledo A.A.; group gave $2 roll of nickels to
buy 40 copies 1941 Saturday Evening Post with Jack
Alexander article (P 247)
Gavin, Della - birth name for Sister Ignatia, see "Ignatia
\ Sister Mary Ignatia Gavin"
Gene C. - Chicago A.A. (D 302)
George B. - he & Al S.
instrumental persuading Knickerbocker Hospital to set aside ward just
for alcoholics under A.A. sponsorship, 1st New York hospital do so (G
87)
George D. - early A.A. (D 106)
George F. - Norwegian immigrant, started A.A. in Oslo Norway (E
44) (H 123)
George G. - chairman Trustees' Archives Committee, presided
official ribbon cutting ceremonies open archives November 3 1975;
professor communications Hofstra University (G
108,127,131)
George H. - stayed at Bill & Lois's house; took Jack
W. Bellevue -but they locked him up instead; killed in WWII
(L 105,121)
George H. - pro conference New York A.A., surveyed groups
around country concerning self government 1948 (D
320-2)
George R. - met alcoholic Scottish
nobleman Philip who had come to America look
into International Christian Leadership Movement businesses men
interested in bringing God into industry through breakfast clubs for
prayer & planning, 1st session he met George R., Philip sobered up
and took A.A. to Scotland (A 83-4)
George S. - Philadelphian; sobered after reading article
"Alcoholics & God" Liberty magazine September
1939; Jimmy B. visited after, 1st A.A.
Philadelphia meeting in his house (A 17-8) (P 245)
Geroldsek, John - Oxford Group member Calvary Episcopal
Mission; heavy-set man, house painter, lived outside mission (P
117,118-9))
Gib K. - Milwaukee pioneer A.A.; gave Bill violin which Bill
treasured (G 35)
'Gilly' - Bill's father's nickname; see "Wilson,
Gilman Barrows"
Ginger B. / G. - [Ginger B. in index/ G in
text] El Paso Texas; helped by letter Bill wrote, it was
destroyed, asked Bill to write another; example of how Bill's letters
became talismans (P 385,391n)
Ginny P. - regular member of 'spook circle', husband was
Tom P. (P 280)
Gladys S. - Madras India, read about A.A.
in Liberty Magazine, came New York, stayed Stepping Stones,
nickname 'Princess', developed crush on Bill, sober 1 year when
died in accident (L 138-139)
Goldfoot, Ella - owned of farm Bill
& Lois worked on during 1925 motorcycle trip (B
150) (L 41-42,44) (P 72,73) (BB#3 unnamed 3)
Gordon - early New York A.A. (P 215)
Gordon M. - October 1939 found room for A.A. meetings South
Orange Community House NJ, 1st New Jersey A.A. meeting not in a home;
picture appeared in Jack Alexander
article Saturday Evening Post; (L 127) (P 247)
Grace - she and husband were asked to love each other using '24
hour plan' (D 256-7)
Grace G. - wife of Abby
G. early Cleveland A.A. (A 21)
Grace O. - her & husband helped original group publish Grapevine
(A 201)
Grassroots, Mr. - anonymous spokesman, Centerville U.S.A.
portraying everybody in A.A. at 2nd International Convention St. Louis
July 1955 (A 41-44)
Green, Hetty - richest woman Wall
Street turn century, famous miser, early part century amassed large
fortune & wielded equally large political power; Bill used this
name as nickname for Dr. Emily, see "Wilson,
Dr. Emily Griffith"
Greim, Lorraine - Ruth
Hock's assistant, nonalcoholic, started work Newark January 1940;
Bill nicknamed 'Sweetie Pie' (P 235,250)
Grennie C. / Grenny - patient of Dr.
Harry Tiebout at Blythewood Sanitarium, friend Marty
M. who said Grennie 'we are no longer alone' -famous A.A.
statement, summarizes relief felt by every isolated alcoholic finally
finding Fellowship (A 3) (G 66) (H 369) (L 124,127) (P
213,216)
'Griffith' - name Jack
Alexander 1941 Saturday Evening Post article gave Bill
for anonymity
Griffin, Clarence - Gardner Fayette Griffith's only son, Bill's
uncle, died 1894 Colorado (P 28,31,406)
Griffith, Ella Brock - Bill's
mothers mother (grandmother), married Gardner Fayette Griffith, raised
Bill since age 10 & sister Dorothy, died 1921 (N
10) (P 25,27,28,45,46,55,70) (W 139)
Griffith, Family - Bill's mother's family (P
15,41,126)
Griffith, Gardner Fayette -
Bill's mother's father (grandfather), Bill's substitute father; Civil
War veteran; married Ella Brock; nickname -Jolly because he
usually wasn't, East Dorset's most prosperous citizen when he died in
1924 (P 20,25,27-28,29,30,31,32,35,45-7,52,64,70) (N
10,16) (W 139) (BB#3 unnamed 10)
Griffith, Helen - husband died of
alcoholism, best friend sobered up in Jersey group; newcomer Bill
helped; woman of means, interested building new houses & fixing up
old ones; built house Wilson's got April 11, 1941, Bill & Lois
move into Bedford Hills NY home 23 years after marriage it was their
1st house, called Stepping Stones; (B 316-317) (L
133,136) (P 259-260)
Griffith, Millie - Bill's aunt, (P 13)
Griffith, Robert - Bill's cousin, Brattleboro (P
27,28)
Griffith, Silas - Gardner Fayette Griffith's cousin, Vermont's
1st millionaire (P 28)
Griffith, Will - got terms agents so Bill's grandfather could
buy & sell cars (P 46)
Grinnell, Catherine 'Katy' - member rich family New
Bedford Massachusetts, lost husband WWI, entertained soldiers (P
55-6)
Grinnell, Dr. - treated Bill around 1915 while Bill enrolled
Norwich University (P 45)
Grinnell, Emmy - member rich family New Bedford Massachusetts,
husband gone WWI, entertained soldiers (P 55-6)
Grinnell Family - wealthy & leading socialite family New
Bedford Massachusetts, gave party for service men, where Bill took 1st
drink -Bronx cocktail, age 22 (B 104,106) (N 13) (P
55) (W 145-146)
Gulden, Frank - former Trustee (A 6,208) (H
194)
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Haas, Father Vincent - newly ordained priest, looked into A.A.
for Sister Ignatia, heard confessions from
alcoholic patients at St. Francis Hospital because hospital chaplain
didn't think alcoholics patients truly repentant (D
189-190) (N 80) (S 86)
Hackensmith - wrestler (P 30)
Haggard, Dr. Howard W. - with Elvin
M. Jellinek founded Yale Summer Studies programs; moved to New
Jersey and became Rutgers School Alcohol Studies 1962; wrote article
1st Grapevine; with Dr. Henderson
began publish Quarterly Journal Studies Alcohol 1940 (E
28) (H 187-90) (P 325n)
Hal S. - founder San Diego group, helped by Johnny
Howe & Kaye M. (A 92)
Hall, Mrs. - admissions nurse Akron City Hospital (D
81-4) (BB#3 unnamed 156)
Hammer, Dr. A. Wiese - wife Helen;
Philadelphian; told friend Judge Curtis Bok
owner publisher Saturday Evening Post about A.A. & have Jack
Alexander do story; secured Philadelphia Group 1st meeting rooms,
introduced Dr. Stouffer chief psychiatrist
Philadelphia General Hospital to A.A., visited other cities with A.A.
members to talk A.A. up & paid their expenses, offered buy club
house (A 18,190) (H 362-364) (P 244)
Hammer, Helen - wife Dr. A. Wiese Hammer, went to A.A. meetings
with him for years (H 363-4)
Hank G. - chairman General Service Committee oversee A.A.
office 1949; structured & programmed 1955 International Convention
St. Louis; supervised 1960 International Convention Long Beach
California; manager General Service Office (A 32) (G
9,101)
Hank \ Henry P. - salesman, early
New York A.A.; he and wife Kathleen lived
Teaneck NJ; drinking cost executive position Standard Oil New Jersey;
2nd prospect Bill got from Dr. Silkworth
1937; organized gasoline dealers northern New Jersey in cooperative
-Honor Dealers at 17 William Street Newark in spring 1937 with Bill;
present meeting December 1937 Rockefeller
raise money; co-leader with Jim B. Big Book
liberals-less God stuff; partner Bill formed Works Publishing Company
early 1939 publish Big Book; wrote chapter 10 Big Book "To
Employers"; got drunk after 4 years April 1940; died Pennington
New Jersey 1954, story "Unbeliever" 1st edition Big Book (A
11,16f,74,154,155-7,159,163-164,167,170f,179) (B
250,263,274,282,284-285,298-299,301,321) (D 108,167,180,201,208) (E
15,18) (G 79) (H 62,106,108,144,201) (L 98,101,127,130) (N 75)
(P
161-162,167,169,191-2,194,195,199-200,204,205,207,208,213,216,217,220,226,228,229-31,235,236,241,243n,255)
(W 160) (BB1 194-205) (BB#3 unnamed xxix,136,163)
Hans H. - Scandinavian American brought Big Book to Bergen
Norway (A 29)
'Happiness Joe' - New York radio late night host, maybe Lillian
R.'s 1st A.A. contact (G 46)
Hardin C. - joined Fitz
M. in Washington D.C. area 1940; bought Preferred Stock in Works
Publishing Inc (A 188) (P 257,258n)
Harold G. - early Akron A.A., sent to Cincinnati to bring back Bill
J. who slipped (D 112-3,119)
Harold S. - he & wife Emily
S. constantly opened Flatbush home for A.A. meetings 1939, drove
Bill & Lois to Green Pond New Jersey (L 125,127)
(P 217)
Harriet - niece of Carry,
Wilson's cook housekeeper at Stepping Stones (G 37) (L
157)
Harriet G. - Nell Wing's secretary
& general assistant; died May 1986 (G 126)
Harrington, Mr. - Dr. Bob's neighbor as youth, had dog Rover (D
14)
Harris K - his story "Growing Up All Over Again" in
3rd edition (BB#3 418-21)
Harrison, Leonard V. - director public affairs Community
Service Society New York City; nonalcoholic trustee 1941 - April 1965
except 5 year hiatus 1956-1961 chairman; spoke 2nd Intentional
Convention St. Louis 1955; present 25th Anniversary 1960 Long Beach
California (A 5,186,208,212) (E 72) (G 74) (H 168,195)
(MS 17) (P 221,358)
Harry B - on board of Alcoholic Foundation-replaced 'NY member
that got drunk', his story "A Different Slant" in 1st ed of
Big Book, from NY (BB1 252-253) (BB#3 'Fred"
39-43)
Harry N., Dr. - early Cleveland A.A.;
complied with junior assistant Dr. Ippolito not
to operate -1st professional intervention 1941, received treatment;
treated so many alcoholics called 'Patron Saint Cleveland A.A.';
early treated alcoholics castor oil & egg soup called Dr. Nash's
Formula (D 201-2) (S 163-164)
Harry R. - 12 stepped Dick P. -perhaps 1st
Spanish speaking A.A. (D 249)
Harry Z - his story "A Close Shave" in 1st ed of Big
Book (BB1 348-350)
Hazard, Rowland - met Stewart's cafeteria
after Oxford Group meetings; carried message Ebby;
former Rhode Island state senator, investment banker, senior director
chemical company, concerned about his drinking saw Dr.
Carl Jung psychoanalyst in Switzerland 1930, treated about year,
drunk again, returned more treatment, Jung told science can't help
need spiritual awakening, joined Oxford Group 1931 & found
sobriety; with Cebra G. interceded with judge to
accept responsibility for Ebby August 1934, helped Ebby find sobriety;
died 1945 (B 229-231) (E 10) (H 276-9,282-3) (L 93) (N
8,9,21,33) (P 113-115,128,381-4,) (W 154-155) (BB#3 unnamed 9,26)
Hazel R. - Dennis Manders staff
secretary (G 101)
Heard, Gerald - writer, student
Eastern & Western religions, british philosopher, mystery
novelist, interested mysticism, psychic phenomena, founded Trabuco
College, British radio commentator, anthropologist, metaphysician;
Wilson's 1st visited Trabuco campus winter 1943-1944; wrote
"Search for Ecstasy" defined A.A. as ad hoc church in May
1958 Grapevine; introduced Bill to Aldous
Huxley, 2 English psychiatrists Dr.
Humphrey Osmond & Dr. Abram Hoffer
working with schizophrenics an alcoholics in Canadian hospital
experimenting with LSD; Bill took LSD under his supervision California
August 29 1956; (G 54,74-75) (L 143,159) (N 137) (P
290,368,370-371,375)
'Heard, H.F.' - dozens mysteries published under this
pseudonym, real name Huxley, Aldous
Heatter, Gabriel - 'We the People'
popular radio show; friend of Morgan R., Hank
P. Morgan interviewed on show April 1939 (A
174-175,246) (B 288) (L 115) (N 90) (P 207,209,248)
Helen B. - A.A., senior office staff, recommended Nell
Wing work directly with Bill to put together booklet Third Legacy,
her story "Promoted to Chronic" in 2nd and 3rd edition (A
215) (G 14) (MS 17) (P 347) (BB2 485-94 / BB3 464-73)
Helen P. - picture appeared Jack
Alexander 1941 Saturday Evening Post article (P
247)
Helen W. - early New York female A.A., committed suicide (P
219)
Helga H. - her husband Leonard
was nonalcoholic trustee; let Wilson's use apartment few months 72nd
Street & Riverside Drive Manhattan (L 127) (P 216)
Henderson, Dr. - worked with Dr.
H. W. Haggard at Yale (H 187)
Hennessy, J.J. - Bill wrote letter 1956 describing A.A.
structure ideas (G 21)
'Henri' - Dr. Bob's nickname for Seiberling,
Henrietta
Henrietta D. - wife of Bill
D. A.A. #3; met Dr. Bob's wife June 28 1935; served 22 years as
matron at Akron City Workhouse & helped carry message to confined
female alcoholics (A 6,72) (C 42) (D
83-9,100,145-6,235,244,272) (H 362) (P 153,159n) (S 117)
Henry G. - part time manager 141 East 44th Street office,
"Do It Now" (H 157)
Henry K. - early A.A. (P 217)
Henry P. - early A.A. (not same person as 'Hank'/Henry
P, or his son) (D 106)
Henry P - Hank P's son (P
195,236)
Henry W. - heard Dr. Bob, Bill, Bill D., Sister Ignatia at
meeting Akron 1949, got drunk, got sober 1950 (D 277)
Herb D. - from New Jersey, attended Tuesday
night meetings at Bill's house with wife Margaret(L
102) (P 162)
Herb D. - husband of Elizabeth D.,
Americans who carried A.A. to Brazil (E 47)
Herb M. - trustee 1956-1960, General Service Office general
manager 1960-1968, chairman trustees' General Service Committee; he
& wife bought 600 shares British Columbia oil lands due to Bill's
advice, Bill made good helping them recoup losses; critical of Bill's
ideas & timing; assisted committee members being majority
alcoholic (G 20,53,101) (P
293,294,367n,380,392,395,396,397)
Herbert - gave Lois a ride to Newark (P 215)
Hershey, Lewis B. - director Selective Service 1942; Bill wrote
letter concerning alcoholics being allowed serve in military (P
272,273)
'Hetty' - Bill's mother nickname -after famous Hetty Green, see
"Wilson, Dr. Emily Griffith" or
"Green, Hetty"
Hirshhorn, Joe - millionaire, Wall
Street big shot; wife Olga; famous art collector; employed Bill early
1930's when no 1 else would; hired Bill analyze & evaluate
companies early 1930's; parted company after Bill disgraced himself
assignment Canada; renewed relationship 1962; met La Guardia Airport
Bill said he was number 1 drunk in America (B
175,357) (G 71) (L 75-76) (P 93-4,95,97-8,144,160,379)
Hirshhorn, Olga - wife Joe Hirshhorn (L 76)
Hock (Crecelius), Ruth - nonalcoholic,
native Newark, grew up thrifty German family, divorced 24; secretary
for Hank P.'s Honor Dealers company, came to work
Bill & Hank P. in 1936 at 17 William Street Newark; Bill's 1st
secretary & office manager 1936-1942; nicknamed 'Dutch'
& 'Duchess'; 1st national A.A. secretary, went without pay
for time, typed manuscript of Big Book as Bill dictated, wanted little
mention of God in steps & Big Book; Serenity
Prayer brought to her 1941; picture appeared Jack
Alexander March 1 1941 Saturday Evening Post article; given
5 millionth copy Big Book 50th International Convention Montreal 1985;
died spring 1986 (A 16,159,166f,195-196) (B 277,292)
(D 167,175-6,200-1,205-8,210) (E 18,20) (G 61,82,111-112) (H
63-4,106,107,144-5,147,152) (L 111,141) (N 99,297) (P
191-193,195-6,199,205,219,220,224,226-9,235,241,247,248,250,251,258n,272,303n,304,392-3)
(W 160,179)
Hoffer, Dr. Abram - English
psychiatrist working alcoholics & schizophrenics at Canadian
mental hospital in Saskatoon Saskatchewan; tested 100s hospitalized
alcoholics, gave them simple vitamin therapy B3 niacin; trying various
methods break patients resistance, help through chemical means LSD
1954, worked with Dr. Humphry Osmond; Bill
met through Gerald Heard, asked Bill work
with them, he did 6 years (B 358-359) (G 54) (L 159)
(N 137) (P 368-369,370,376n,387-9)
Holden, Reuben A. - secretary Yale University; coordinator to
give Bill honorary Doctor Laws degree (H 205-209) (P
311,313,314)
Horace C. - early A.A.; dry 3 months, one
of first to see 12 Steps after Bill wrote them objected frequent use
word God & asking on knees to have shortcomings removed; Wilson's
stayed at his Green Pond bungalow New Jersey spring 1939; (Howard)along
with Bert T. found & guaranteed rent 1st A.A.
clubhouse 24th Street Clubhouse February 1940; got Bill job selling
wire rope 1940; picture appeared Jack
AlexanderSaturday Evening Post article; suggested printing Serenity
Prayer on cards; in early 1940's trustees sent him to
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington to sound out groups & get
groups supporting A.A. headquarters; also see "Howard
A" (A 161,180-1,186,192,196) (B 290,319)
(H 64-65,108) (L 125) (P 199,206f,222,238,247,252,255,263)
Horace "Popsie" M. - took
Marty M. 1st A.A. meeting, his story "On
His Way" in first edition (P 211) (BB1 375-7)
Howard - Bill's 2nd cousin, Bill found him dead drunk in New
York hotel brought to Stepping Stones, stayed 5 years (L
139)
Howard, Dr. - psychiatrist Montclair New Jersey; suggested
remove all forms coercion from Big Book manuscript, put on 'we ought'
basis instead of 'you must' (A 167) (N 75) (P 204)
(BB#3 unnamed 163)
'Howard A.' - was actually Horace
C / Bill changed his name in AACOA so as not to offend, see
"Horace C" (P 206f)
Howard S., Dr. - general practitioner Cuyahoga Falls, A.A.,
helped by Dr. Bob (D 129-30,132)
Howe, Johnny - Los Angeles Probation
Department; Kaye M. gave him copy of Big Book;
they dug up alcoholics who started A.A. on the West Coast (A
91-92) (P 266)
Hughes, Harold - held Senate hearings alcoholism late 1960's,
Bill involved (G 47)
Hunter, Reverend T. Willard - spent 18 years full time staff
positions Oxford Group & M.R.A.; states he never heard of 6
Tenets; supported A.A. (P 130,206n)
Huxley, Aldous - author Brave New
World & Doors Perception, teacher, philosopher, New Age
pioneer; interested mysticism, psychic phenomena; wrote dozens
mysteries published under pseudonym H F Heard; corresponded
with Bill nearly 2 decades; introduced to Bill through mutual friend Gerald
Heard, called Bill greatest social architect of this century;
wrote Grapevine articles; wrote Man & Reality which
appeared in souvenir book A.A. Today distributed 1960
International Convention Long beach; died 1963 (B 365)
(G 75) (P 368,372,375,376n)
Hyde, Mr. - Dr. Jekyl - Mr. Hyde analogy (H
237)
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Ian M. - started A.A. New Zealand 1946 (E
42)
'Icky' - 'nickname "Dynamite Man"
'Ig' - Dr. Bob's nickname Sister Ignatia
Ignatia \ Sister Mary Ignatia Gavin, C.S.A.
- born January 2 1889; birth name Bridget Della Mary Gavin; called Angel
Alcoholics Anonymous, Little Angel of A.A.'s, Little Sister of
Alcoholics Anonymous, Dr. Bob's nickname 'Ig'; worked with
alcoholics Akron 1928-1939; pioneered 1st alcoholism ward utilizing AA
philosophy Akron 1939; 1st use retreat houses fortify spiritual
recovery; with Dr. Bob's wife helped Akron's 1st alcoholic women;
received Poverello Medal behalf A.A. December 7 1949; wrote article
"Care Alcoholics - St.Thomas Hospital & A.A. Started Movement
Which Swept Country" October 1951 in Hospital Progress
journal Catholic Hospital Association; last day St. Thomas August 7
1954, went Charity Hospital Cleveland; received 1954 National Theta
Phi Alpha's St. Catherine Sienna Award; died April 1, 1966 (A
viii-ix,7-8,14,19,67,143,206) (B 346) (C 6,128) (D
45-6,185-99,221,245,277,283,328) (E 15,72) (G 24,92) (H
156,202-205,227,309,371-379) (L 145) (N 79) (MS 16) (P 323) (S
iii-ix,1-5-7,9,12,17,34-36,42,122,128,139,145,149-151,153,185-186,221,225-226,240,257,273)
(BB#3 named 171)
Ignatius, Saint - see "Saint
Ignatius of Layola"
Ippolito, Dr. Victor D. - junior
assistant Dr. Harry Nash in operating room
Charity Hospital, told Dr. Nash not operate -1st professional
intervention 1941 (S 163)
Irvin, Arba J - classmate of Dr. Bob at Dartmouth (D
24-5,67)
Irwin M. - super salesman of Venetian blinds, early Cleveland
A.A., early 1940's spread A.A. message through South, started many
& stimulated more new groups (A 25) (B 290,319) (D
259) (L 141)
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J.D.H. - joined A.A. September 1936, 9 or
10 preceded him, Dr. Bob nicknamed him 'Abercrombie', 1 of few
who weren't hospitalized, Southerner, had trouble with spiritual part,
left established group to start A.A. group Evansville Indiana (D
46,111-114,140,147-9,258)
'Jack, Dr.' - nickname of Norris,
Dr. John (Jack) L.
Jack C. - brought Serenity
Prayer Vesey Street office June 1941, rented Bill & Lois a
sporty Lincoln Zephyr (A 173,196) (L 126) (P 252)
Jack D. - early Cleveland A.A., Bill's pigeon (D
182-3,210)
Jack G. - Chicago A.A. (D 177)
Jack M. - editor Grapevine (G 137)
Jack W. - wife Jean W., lived near Bill
& Lois, Bill tried to help, didn't sober up (L
121)
Jack W. - helped Richmond A.A.'s realize getting away wives
& drinking only beer not orthodox AA (A 25)
Jacobs, Frank - had influence Bill's boyhood (B
42)
Jackson, John - Bill's childhood sweetheart Bertha
Bamford pall bearer (P 36)
Jake H. - A.A. member, associated U.S.
Steel, co-led industrial meeting with Dave M. A.A.
15th anniversary (H 118)
James, William - Harvard professor, founding father American
psychology; author Varieties Religious Experience, theory
spiritual experiences have definite objective reality & might
totally transform man's life; Bill called him 1 of A.A. founders (A
13,64,70,160,262,264,323) (D 69,104,306) (G 21) (H
175-6,196-7,199,279-298) (N 20,23,33-34) (P 124-125,197,199) (W
154,172) (BB#3 named 28)
Jameses, Curtis - honored troops preparing to go overseas,
invited Bill's whole battery his Newport estate (L 23)
Jane S. - 1st woman Akron area maintain few months sobriety,
married vice president large steel company (D 122,241)
Janet G. - she & Bill, edited A.A. Way Life, became As
Bill Sees It (G 27) (P 360)
Jellinek, Dr. E. M. -Ph.D. - nickname 'Bunky';
world famous scientific, medical authority on alcoholism, cofounded
National Committee Education Alcoholism, founded National Committee
Education Alcoholism, 1943 founded Yale Center Alcohol Studies moved
to Rutgers University New Jersey 1962, author Disease Concept
Alcoholism, developed famous Jellinek Chart -curve showing
progression of illness & subsequent recovery; invited Bill speak
Yale Center early 1940's, after Bill's death awarded him 1st Jellinek
Award; with Dr. Haggard began publish Quarterly
Journal Studies Alcohol 1940; died 1972 (E 28) (G
67-68) (H 100,188) (L 145) (P 325n)
Jellinek, Elvin - see "Jellinek, Dr.
E. M. -Ph.D."
Jennie B. - founding mother Boston A.A., daughter Back Bay
family, 1 Paddy K.'s 1st 2 successes (A
96) (P 251,257-258)
Jim S., Dr. - physician, originator 1st black group; spoke A.A.
2nd International Convention St. Louis July; "Jim's Story"
2nd & 3rd editions Big Book 1955 (A 37) (P 317)
(BB2 471-84 / BB3 483-96)
Jim S. - former Akron
journalist, found by Dr. Bob skid row selling hair oil &
panhandling, interviewed & helped all Akron & Cleveland men
write Big Book stories, his story "Traveler, Editor,
Scholar" in 1st edition - re written and re-named "The News
Hawk" for 2nd and 3rd edition (A 164) (D 154) (H 359) (L 113) (P
200) (W 180) (BB1 254-64 / BB2 & BB3 251-60
Jim W. (James Russell Lowell W.) - confidence man, disappeared
in A.A. history (L 123)
Jimmy B. - early New York A.A.; salesman;
1 1st 10 A.A.'s eastern U.S.; insisted toning down "God"
references both steps & Big Book, wanted strong psychological
emphasis; went Philadelphia needed fellow alcoholics around stay
sober, started group 1940; responsible start A.A. Baltimore also;
donated his 1st printing /1st edition Big Book to archives; story
"Vicious Cycle" 2nd & 3rd editions Big Book, sometimes
referred to as 'Jim B' or 'Jim Burwell' (A 17-8,163)
(B 282,295) (G 22,111,129) (H 201,363) (L 198) (N 75) (P
199,204,214,221,244-245,258n) (BB2 & BB3 238-50) (BB#3 unnamed
149-50)
Joan C. - best friend of Mrs.
Griffith who built Stepping Stones -Wilson's house, helped work
out plan so Wilson's could afford it (L 133) (P
259-260)
Joe - checked Bill's hat & coat at function, former member
Al Capone gang (A 102) (B 344)
Joe D. - A.A.#5,
Akron, early Catholic member, "The European Drinker" one of
few stories in all 3 editions of Big book. (D 112) (N
84) (BB1 206-16) (BB2/3 230-7)
Joe M. - his story "Joe's Woes" in 2nd edition only (BB2
445-59)
Joe McQ. - 1st black Little Rock Arkansas
A.A. 1962; participated Charlie P. Big Book
seminars (G 112)
Joe P. - joined A.A. 1942, Dr. Bob's fellow Dartmouth College
alumnus (D 18,191-2,226,265,287-8,290)
Joe T. - tried get Bill job Torpedo Motor Company (L
130)
Joe W. - came from Bowery, New Yorker magazine writer;
supporter of Big Book title Alcoholics Anonymous; sober on
& off, (some credit him with writing chapt "To Wives") (A
166) (P 202) (W 160)
John B. - general manager General Service Office 1988 (G
144)
John C. - early San Francisco A.A. (A 88)
John P - his story "The Professor and the Paradox" in
2nd edition (BB2 336-42)
John R. - joined A.A. March/April 1939,
husband of Elgie R., Oxford member, 12 stepped Ethel
& Rollo M., barbershop West Exchange Street,
Dr. Bob stopped in to chat (C 50) (D
80,95,128,153,166,177,213,216-9,223,227,237,243-4,251-2,272,276-7,286,289,302,311)
John S. - joined A.A. Akron January 1940 (D
146,221,275-6,280)
John W. - help group Richmond realize A.A. was not to get away
wives & drink beer at meetings (B 319)
Johnny P. - Detroit A.A., traveled a lot, inspired many AA's
band together, start meetings; started A.A. Kansas City Kansas (A
95) (L 141)
Johnny R. - see John R
Johnson, Dick - Bill's Canadian friend, offered Bill job with
his firm, Greenshields & Co. -brokerage firm Montreal (B
169) (L 81) (P 86) (BB#3 unnamed 4)
Johnson, Dr. Gordon - leading psychiatrist Oslo Norway, helped
start A.A. Norway (A 29) (G 72)
'Jolly' - nickname Bill's grandfather, see "Griffith,
Gardner Fayette"
Jones, Cy - Bill's brother-in-law, Bill worked as clerk in
insurance department of New York Central Railroad for Cy (A
54) (L 30) (P 63)
Jones, Joan - Lois's
fathers 2nd wife (step mother) (L 84)
Jones, Kleina - General Service Office, conceived flag ceremony
international conventions (G 109)
Jud O. - joined A.A. 1939, wife Dorothy
O. (D 230,233,236,279,290-1)
Jung, Dr. Carl - Switzerland psychoanalyst;
1 founders modern psychology; wrote Modern Man Search Soul;
treated & helped Rowland Hazard 1930,
patient over 1 year in Zurich, opinion only thing help was spiritual
awakening, suggested ally himself religious movement; Bill felt Jung
top of list responsible for A.A.'s creation; Bill wrote him 1961; died
June 6, 1961 (A 3,64,68,262) (B 231,362) (D 69) (H
98,266-7,276-277,281-6) (N 8,21,33-35) (P 114,381-6,391n) (W
154,155,172-173) (BB#3 named 26)
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Kahn, David - philanthropist; wife Lucille; interested in
mysticism, psychic phenomena; close Aldous Huxley,
Gerald Heard; long time friend supporter Edgar
Cayce(G 75)
Kaiser, Dr. - doctor Toledo state asylum, let Chet
M. sign out patients take Toledo A.A. meetings (D
256)
Kaiser, Henry J. - of Kaiser shipyards (A 90)
Kathleen - nonalcoholic, Bill
R.'s wife (P 162)
Kathleen P. - 1 of Hank
P.'s wives (L 101) (P 162,216,217,228,243n)
Katie P. - wife Duke P.,
Toledo groups first treasurer (D 150,151,253-7,290)
Kay - 1 of original group publishing Grapevine (A
201)
Kay F - Clint F.'s
wife (P 78,95)
Kaye M. - nonalcoholic, Ty M.'s
wife; divorced after Ty sobered; Bill chewed her out for baby sitting
husband; took Big Book Johnny Howe at Los
Angeles Probation Department late fall 1939, these 2 dug up alcoholics
who started A.A. West Coast, (name spelled
"Kay" in Dr. Bob) (A 91-92) (D 177) (P 266)
Ken - gave Lois pheasant feathers she turned into a hat (P
239)
Ken A. - tried with Dick R. & Earl
T. to start A.A. group Chicago 1937 (A 22)
Ken S. - Kansas City old timer (G 112)
Kennedy, Dr. Foster - world renowned
neurologist; attended & spoke John D.
Rockefeller's A.A. dinner February 1940, represented medical
profession; with Dr. Harry Tiebout & Dr.
Kirby Collier responsible Bill speaking 2 medical societies;
defended A.A. in A.M.A.; endorsed paper Bill read 1944 Medical Society
New York annual meeting; used term X factor to
explain what we call God (A 14,45,183-185,204,320f) (B
295) (G 67) (H 62,145) (L 128) (MS 11,15) (N 93) (P 232-233)
Kilpatrick, Dr. O. Arnold - psychiatrist in charge New York
State mental institution, nonalcoholic, spoke 2nd Intentional
Convention St. Louis 1955 (A 6) (P 358)
King - early San Francisco A.A. (A 88)
King Alcohol - (BB#3 named 151)
Kitterer, Dr. - ordained minister, trained institutional
administrator, in charge at Deaconess Hospital Cleveland, helped set
up alcoholic ward, got visiting privileges Dr. Bob & Dr.
N. (A 20) (D 201)
Klein, Edith - professional librarian, helped Nell
Wing with archives (G 126)
Klein, Sarah - nonalcoholic friend Archie T.,
helped start A.A. group Detroit 1939 (A 24) (D 182)
Kolb, Guy - Lois's boss at Macy's (L 84)
Krauweel, Henk - important social worker Holland; lot do
translating 12 Steps Dutch, helped A.A. in Holland; leading authority
alcoholism Europe (A 26f) (G 72)
Kuhlke, M. D. - firm Kuhlke Machine Co. merged National Rubber
Machinery Company 1928, instrumental proxy fight that brought Bill to
Akron (P 158)
Kurtz, Ernest - historian, wrote Not-God (P
394)
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Lambert, Dr. Sam - along with Charlie Towns founded
Towns Hospital, developed belladonna treatment (B 257)
(P 101)
Landon, Bill - lived next door Bill's grandparents East Dorset
Vermont, Old Frank's son-in-law, fought
civil war, taught Bill how shoot rifle, wife Barefoot Rose, had
influence Bill's boyhood (B 24,42) (P 52,54)
Landon, Rose - neighbor Bill's while
staying with grandparents, Bill Landon husband, town's librarian,
responsible Bill reading great deal, had influence Bill's boyhood (B
26-27,42) (P 29)
Landons - Bill's next door neighbors East Dorset (W
139)
Lang, Sidney - foremost bridge expert (D 296)
Langley, Samuel P -Professor - flying machine failed to get off
the ground and ran into Potomac just months before Wright's flight (BB#3
named 51)
Larry J. - newspaper man, sobered up in
Cleveland, went to Houston Texas; help start Texas A.A., wrote series
of 6 article Houston Press which became AA's first pamphlet
"AA" (A 24) (B 295) (D 259) (L 141)
Lavelle K. - A.A., along with wife Emma
K. cared for Dr. Bob & Annie last years 855 Ardmore Avenue
Akron (C 61) (D 17,272,289,317-8,329-30,333,339-43)
'Lawyer Barber' - lawyer in Bennington Vermont involved
in Bill's parents divorce (P 25)
Leary, Dr. Timothy - along with Richard
Alpert brought LSD to national attention in 1961 (P
376-7n)
LeBerthon, Ted - prominent Los Angeles columnist, articles
helped A.A. grow (A 92)
Lee - wife Chuck,
artist, 1st alcoholic arrive Los Angeles from East (A
92)
Leo F. - Los Angeles A.A. Group, instrumental bringing A.A. San
Quentin (A 89)
Leonard - early New York A.A. (P 214)
Leonard H. - wife Helga
H., let Wilson's use apartment few months 72nd Street &
Riverside Drive Manhattan; Leonard nonalcoholic trustee (L
127) (P 216)
'Lil' - 1st lady seek A.A.
help, involved 1st 13th step with 'Victor',
got sober outside A.A. (D 97-98,109,241)
Lillian - nickname 'Lily', Dr.
Bob's receptionist nurse, husband was Everett (C
124)(D 40,50) (BB#3 unnamed 179)
Lillian R. - popular singer, went public
1940's, gave small A.A. enormous boost Australia (G
46)
Lincoln, Abraham - US president (H 260)
Lisa - her story "The Teen-Ager's Decision" in 3rd
edition (BB#3 353-55)
Little Angel of A.A.'s - see "Ignatia
\ Sister Mary Ignatia Gavin"
Little, Reverend George - Toronto minister credited introducing
A.A. Canada (A 84) (E 35)
Little Sister of Alcoholics Anonymous - see "Ignatia
\ Sister Mary Ignatia Gavin"
Lloyd T. - early Cleveland A.A., Dorothy
S.M. called him to get help for Clarence S.,
stayed with Oxford group after A.A. split, Clarence's sponsor, his
story "The Rolling Stone" in 1st edition (D
143,167,218) (BB1 386-90)
Lois K. - 1 of original group publishing Grapevine (A
201)
Luke - early Chicago A.A. Earl T. worked
with (A 22)
Lupton, Dr. Dilworth - Unitarian
minister Cleveland's 1st Unitarian Church, helped rapid growth A.A.
Cleveland; tried sober up Clarence S.; gave
sermon November 1939 later reprinted as pamphlet by Cleveland Gp
(A 20) (D 142,162,205,210) (N 84-85)
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M., Dr. - 1 of 1st, if not 1st drunk Bill & Dr. Bob tried
help, disappeared A.A. history (P 144)
M., Mrs. - wife of Alex (D
147)
Mac, 'Poor' - early New York A.A., members didn't think
he'd make it -he did (P 227,228)
McCarthy, Ray - 1st administrator Yale School Alcohol Studies (H
189)
MacCormick, Austin - Commissioner of Corrections New York,
Professor Criminology University California, penologist; served 2
terms trustee; nonalcoholic, spoke 2nd Intentional Convention St.
Louis 1955 (A 6) (L 57) (P 358)
Madeline V. - early Akron A.A. (D 283-5)
Maeve - 1 of original group publishing Grapevine (A
201)
Mag V. - wife Bob V.;
farm house Wilson's stayed fall 1939 with rooms called Upper &
Lower Siberia, located Bog Hollow Monsey New York (A
11,179) (B 291) (L 122,127) (P 214,218)
Main, Florence - Oxford Group leader in Akron (D
157)
Manders, Dennis - long time non-alcoholic
controller General Service Office; co-worker Nell
Wing; prophesied at St. Louis Convention Bill's final stepping
down from A.A. leadership would take years; in charge taping April
1970 Conference where Bill couldn't finish speech (G
50,60,76,96) (H 157) (P 372-3,393,399)
Margaret D. - wife Herb
D., attended Tuesday night meetings Bill's house (P
162)
Margaret McP. - husband Mickey,
ran drying out farm Ballston Spa New York, Ebby
Thatcher stayed there in 60's, cared for by Margaret (L
118)
Marian - Tom P's aunt
whose table was refinished (P 280)
Marie B. - wife Walter B.
Cleveland A.A.; (Akron records state wrote chapter in Big Book 'To
Wives'); story "An Alcoholic's Wife" 1st edition Big Book
story section (A 164) (D 152) (S 122) (BB1 378-379)
Markey, Morris - writer, "Alcoholics & God"
article Liberty magazine September 1939 (A
17,87,176-177) (H 145,180) (L 116) (MS 11) (N 90) (P 223,224)
Marshall B. - early Los Angeles A.A. helped by Johnny
Howe & Kaye M. (A 92)
Martin, Sarah - name in Jack
Alexander's March '41 Saturday Evening Post article used
for Marty M.
Marty M. - 1 of 1st A.A. women achieve
lasting sobriety, came meetings Bill & Lois's; Dr.
Tiebout gave Multilith copy Big Book to her at Blythewood
Sanitarium Greenwich Connecticut; started Greenwich group 1939;
sponsored Nona W.; introduced Bill to Dr. Harry
Tiebout chief psychiatrist Blythewood; with original group publishing Grapevine;
founded National Committee Education Alcoholism [N.C.E.A.] October 2
1944, later became National Council Alcoholism then National Council
Alcoholism & Drug Dependence; Bill & Dr. Bob publicly endorsed
NCEA, were named in letter head, 1946 solicitation letter for funds
looked like A.A. & N.C.E.A. were linked together -impact 7th
Tradition; 1943 attended newly founded Yale School Alcohol Studies,
country's 1st such educational program; broke anonymity &
Bill supported; Time magazine article 1944 on NCEA told her AA
background; present 25th Anniversary 1960 Long Beach California, her
story "Women Suffer Too" in 2nd & 3rd edition (A
3,18,181,201) (B 302-303) (E 72) (G 12-13,66) (H 100-1,189,369) (L
124,127,146) (N 118,126,417) (P
210-213,216,244,248,293,295,310-1,319-20,401) (S ix) (BB2 & BB3
222-9)
Max - A.A.'s 1st German member (E 52)
Max O. - wife of dr. Paul O., story in 3rd ed "Doctor, Alcoholic,
Addict" (BB3 439-452)
Maxwell, Dr. Milton - chairman Emeriti
with Dr. John (Jack) L. Norris
International Convention Montreal 1985; member 1st Trustees' Archives
Committee; non alcoholics trustee, chairman board; died 1988 (G
112,127) (N 273)
Maybelle 'May B' L. - wife Tom
L., her and husband's story in 1st edition "My Wife and
I" (D 120) (BB1
287-95)
Maynard B. - his story "Join the Tribe!" in 3rd
edition (BB3 474-7)
'Mayor Houde' - Montreal's major, supported A.A., threw
party maybe 1st official reception any A.A. group received (A
85)
McC. - met Stewart's cafeteria after Oxford Group meetings (B
229-230)
McKinnon, Arch - aided Dr.
S.L. Minogue & Father Dunlea at
Rydalmere Mental Hospital, Sydney (A 86)
Mel B. - Michigan A.A. (P 348)
Merced, Sister - looked after 2 bed ward St. John's Hospital
Cleveland (A 20) (H 204)
Merle H. - wife Doctor
Forest H., Los Angeles A.A. (P 287-288)
Mickey McP. - wife Margaret;
had rest farm Ballston Spa near Schenectady New York; Ebby
T. spent last 2 years life (G 99)
Midge M. - Bob H.'s
administrative assistant; helped Nell Wing
with archives; secretary Trustees' Archives Committee (G
126-127)
Mielcarek, Henry - corporate personnel expert; engaged Allis-Chalmers
look after alcoholic problem; nonalcoholic, spoke 2nd Intentional
Convention St. Louis 1955 (A 5) (P 358)
Mike - early Detroit A.A. Archie T.
helped, assisted A.A. growth Detroit (A 24)
Mike R. - pioneer A.A. Oklahoma; chairman Trustee's Archives
Committee; initiated Markings On Journey 1979 (G
109-110,131)
Miles N., Dr. - 1 1st A.A.'s doctor members, prodigious A.A.
worker & national authority on chemistry of drunks (A
95)
Millie - Emily Wilson's sister (P 13)
Milotte, Mary - had influence Bill's boyhood, his teacher (B
42) (L 19,33)
Minogue, S. J. - Australian
psychiatrist with Rydalmere Mental Hospital Sydney, late 1942 wrote
G.S.O. (A 85)
Money, Francis - boyhood acquaintance Bill's (P
47)
Montjoy, Mr. & Mrs. - vice president hotel organization (P
288)
Morgan, J.P. - very rich Wall Street
man, Bill's hero (P 81)
Morgan R. - Irish Catholic, ex-ad man;
came A.A. early January 1939; had friend on Catholic Committee
Publications New York Archdiocese, delivered mimeograph copy Big Book
to committee, they approved; spoke popular radio program 'We
The People' April 1939 shortly after release Greystone
institution; attended John D. Rockefeller's
A.A. dinner Feb 1940; Wilson's stayed his apartment about 2 months (A
168-169,174-175,183) (B 286,295) (H 62) (L 115,127) (N 47,75,90, 93)
(P 201,207,208,209,215,221,232-233)
Morris - Jewish A.A. St. Thomas Hospital alcoholic ward with Sister
Ignatia, Irish cop sponsor (D 194)
Morrow, David - a spook (P 276-7,278)
Mort J. - wife Francis;
early A.A., book convert, came Los Angeles March 1940 from Denver
& helped faltering group; hired meeting place Cecil Hotel;
insisted reading Chapter 5 Big Book start every meeting (A
93-94) (P 266,288)
'Mother AA' - see "Smith,
Anne Ripley"
'Mother G.' - mother of Ernie G
-Akron, Oxford Group matron (D 147,149,151) (N 55)
Muriel - Lois embroidered stockings for her (P
239)
'My friend postman' - see "Whalon,
Mark"
Myron W. - (name often spelled "Myrow") his story
"Hindsight" in 1st edition, from NY (BB1
370-4)
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N - noted radio commentator, broke anonymity for money
raising & publicity (P 309)
Nagle, Father - St. Vincent's Charity Hospital, helped
Cleveland alcoholics (A 20) (H 204)
Nancy - waitress served Dr. Bob at City Club (D
293)
Nancy F - "Independent Blonde" in 2nd edition of Big
Book (BB2 532-9)
Nash, Dr. Harry - see Harry
N, Dr
Ned - early San Francisco A.A. (A 88)
Ned F. - A.A. Washington lawyer, got Bill interested in
government (L 130)
Ned P. - new alcoholic, present at meeting December 1937 Rockefeller
raise money (B 274)
Neil K. - early Youngstown Ohio A.A. (D
254,257)
Newton, Jim - Oxford Group member, supported A.A.
(G 69)
Nic N. - early San Francisco A.A. (A 88)
Niebuhr, Reinhold - One of possible authors of Serenity
Prayer(A 196) (P 258n)
Nona W. - alcoholic, wife Walter
W. alcoholic, early A.A.'s, friends Sister
Francis who invited her to Joy Farm starting A.A.'s contact Sister
Francis; sponsored by Marty M (A
181) (L 122)
Norman H - his story "Educated Agnostic" in 1st
edition, from Darien, CT (BB1 351-6)
Norman Y. - blind man Youngstown, 12 stepped by Jack
D. (D 183-4,221,223,249-50,263)
Norris, Dr. John 'Jack' L. -
nicknamed 'Dr. Jack'; medical director Eastman Kodak Rochester
New York; early as 1948 investigated A.A. resource available help
alcoholic employees; nonalcoholic, served A.A. 27 years trustee,
helped change board membership to alcoholic majority; spoke 2nd
Intentional Convention St. Louis 1955; present 25th Anniversary 1960
Long Beach California; Bill asked him try LSD, didn't; chairman
Emeriti with Dr. Milton Maxwell International
Convention Montreal 1985; 1 favorite expressions 'Sponsor your
doctor'; gave Bill's eulogy; died January 1989 (A
5,208) (E 67,72) (G 29,52,72,112) (H 194,334-335,339,340) (N 259) (P
268-71,297,301,358,370,371,376,376n,395,396,400)
Northrop, Amanda - Dr. Bob's older foster sister, history
professor Hunter College New York City (D 12-13,14)
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Oetinger, Fredrich - one of possible authors of Serenity
Prayer (P 258n)
'Old Tom' - see Tom M
Olsen, Dr. Oscar - close friend & enthusiastic A.A. since
1947; attended Seattle Convention 1990 (G 73)
Oppenheimer, Dr. J. Robert - nickname 'Oppie';
physicist, asked Bill join him at Institute Advanced Study Princeton,
wanted Bill oversee & evaluate chemical composition neuroses,
mostly depression, Bill didn't (B 357-358) (P 381)
'Oppie' - nickname for Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer
Ora T. - early New York A.A., Bill & Lois sublet her
furnished apartment 42 Barrow Street Greenwich Village (L
130) (P 215)
Oram, Mrs. Gordon - from San
Francisco, had boarder Ted whom she got Big Book,
opened her flat 1st A.A. meeting late 1939 (A 88)
Orvis, Mrs. - owner famous Equinox House, headed delegation to
meet arrival 1st plane landing Manchester Vermont airfield; Bill, Ebby
& pilot Ted Burke drunk (G 58) (H 367) (L 76) (P
84)
Oscar V. - from old St. Louis family,
stayed Bill's house (B 263)
Oscar W. - Cleveland A.A., age 29, told, when you are new, you
should 'take the cotton from your ears and put it in your mouth,
sit down and listen!', wrote resignation & gave Dr. Bob,
slipped, back in 6 months (D
225-6,229,231,245-7,258-9,270-1)
Osler, Sir William - late 19th-early 20th century Canadian
physician (A 243)
Osmond, Dr. Humphry - English
psychiatrist involved in research working with schizophrenics &
alcoholics at Canadian hospital Saskatoon Saskatchewan; Bill met
trough Gerald Heard; trying various methods
break patients resistance, help them through chemical means -LSD 1954
and vitamin therapy -B3/niacin; worked Dr. Abram
Hoffer, asked Bill work with them, he did for 6 years (B
358-359) (G 54) (L 159) (N 137) (P 368-370,372,376n,380,387,388,389)
Otis W., Father - early recovering priest (S
171)
Oursler, Fulton - editor Liberty
Magazine popular national weekly 1939; wrote book Greatest
Story Ever Told; Senior Editor Readers Digest; introduced
Bill to Fulton Sheen; member Board
Trustees; helped raise money from friends distributing first 2
chapters Big Book when unpublished (A
17,87,172n,177,208) (G 73) (H 145,180,182-183,194) (MS 11,17) (N
52,90) (P 223-4,280,335) (BB#3 named xviii)
Oursler, Grace - husband was Fulton Oursler, they introduced
Bill W to Fulton Sheen(P
280)
Ovshinsky, Stan - Detroit inventor, developed cheap way
converting heat directly electricity; formed company Energy Conversion
Laboratories marketed idea (P 380)
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P., Dr. - early Sacramento A.A. (A 88)
Paddy K. - founded A.A. Boston, amazingly
successful at helping others despite having slip after slip, died
alcoholism; Marty M. took him to Blythewood (A
96) (P 257,258n)
Pam B. - Red Bank New Jersey; met Bill 1968 vacationing
Caribbean winter 1968, made mutual pact quit smoking (P
397)
Parent, Lillie - in 1907 letter to Emily, Bill W mentions this
friend of his sister Dorothy (P 23-4)
Parent, Mr. - father of Lillie, killed by a train (P
23)
Parkhurst, Kathleen - see "Kathleen P"
Parkhurst, Hank or Henry - see "Hank P"
Pat C. - Minneapolis A.A.; Chicago's Chan
F. & Bill Y. carried him message 1940;
tried start A.A. & club same time; (A 95)
Pat C. - from California, his story "Lone Endeavor"
in 1st edition (BB1 391-6)
Pat M - his story "Desperation Drinking" in 2nd &
3rd ed (BB2 509-513 \ BB3 512-6)
'Patron Saint of Cleveland A.A.' - see "Dr.
Harry N"
Paul K. - visited Bill Ruth Hock's 1st day work, Ruth heard
fragments drunken misery, miserable wife, being drunk disease, roaring
laughter drunken incidents; thought Big Book should be more Christian (A
162) (E 20)
Paul O., Dr - his story in 3rd ed "Doctor, Alcoholic,
Addict" (BB3 439-452)
Paul S. - early Akron A.A., met Dr. Bob
January 1936, came New York with Dr. Bob attended John
D. Rockefeller's A.A. dinner February 1940; got Dr. Bob's son job
Cleveland; liked Twelve Steps way 1st written, his story "Truth
Freed Me!" in 1st edition (A 162,183) (C 141) (D
111-3,117,119,132,140,143,145,169,245,288,306,310,314,) (H 59,60,62)
(L 109) (N 53) (P 184,232-233) (BB1 336-9)
Paul, Saint - see "Saint Paul"
Payne, Kenneth - managing editor of Readers Digest in
1938 (A 158,171)
Peabody, Richard - lay therapist treatment alcoholism, author Common
Sense Drinking, recovering alcoholic (P 176)
Peale, Norman Vincent - popular minister Collegiate Church New
York, radio preacher spoke New York Intergroup dinner celebrating
Bill's sobriety (L 143)
Peg S. - joined A.A. mid-1940's (D 247)
Peggy - friend Smiths (D 87)
Perkins, Roger - senior class member Burr & Burton, pall
bearer Bill's childhood sweetheart Bertha
Bamford(P 36)
Pete A. - Dr. Bob's son's wife's (Betty)
father, alcoholic; sober after daughter brought him Big Book 1944,
started group Clovis New Mexico (C 157) (D 303)
Pete W. - His story "Rum, Radio and Rebellion" in 2nd
& 3rd edition (BB#2 317-29, BB#3 356-68)
Pfau, Father Ralph - 1st A.A. Catholic priest join A.A.,
organized National Clergy Conference, wrote Golden Books, wrote
autobiographical account alcoholism Prodigal Shepherd (S
197)
Phil S. - A.A.#5
A.A. #5, A.A.'s 1st court case, came late August or early September,
1935, insurance man (D 95-96,100,108,132)
Philip - alcoholic Scottish nobleman,
journey America look into International Christian Leadership Movement
-businesses men interested bringing God into industry by breakfast
clubs for prayer & planning, at 1st session met George
R., sobered up took A.A. home to Scotland (A 83)
Poliak, Dr. Percy - San Francisco psychiatrist with Bellevue
Hospital New York then San Francisco Country Hospital, gave A.A. group
full support (A 88) (BB#3 unnamed 175)
Polly F.L. - joined A.A. 1943 Chicago, later worked General
Service Office (D 246,300,302)
'Princess' - see "Gladys S."
Priscilla - 1 original group publishing Grapevine (A
201)
'Puggy' - see "Dowling,
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Quaw, Clayton - firm Quaw & Foley, firm Bill did most
stock market investigations for (P 175)
'R.H.' - Dr. Bob's nickname for self, see "Bob
S., Dr."
'R.H.S., Dr.' - Dr. Bob's nickname at City Hospital, 2
other Smiths on staff, see "Bob S., Dr."
Ralph - worked press room A.A.'s 2nd
International Convention St. Louis July 1955 (A 36)
Ralph B. - writer Alcoholic Foundation; frequent visitor
Stepping Stones (G 145)
Ralph F. - from Springfield MA, "Another Prodigal
Story" in 1st edition of Big Book, (BB1 357-363)
(BB#3 'Jim' 35-7)
Ralph R. - married Bill's 1/2 sister Helen(P
330)
Randolph - West Indian Rosicruican elevator man 38 Livingston
Street New York, tried keep Bill sober & safe when drunk, checked
neighborhood bar's for him (L 71) (P 81)
Ray C. - designed dust cover for 1st ed Big Book, his story
"An Artist's Concept" in 1st edition (BB1
380-5)
Ray H. - early San Francisco A.A. (A 88)
Ray W. - early New York A.A., atheist, went San Francisco 1940
business, told those there A.A. great stuff but put God out of it;
picture appeared Jack Alexander March
1941 Saturday Evening Post article (A 87) (P
247)
Reed, Joe - friend Bill's from East Dorset (L
52)
Regnikoff, Dr. - New York Hospital doctor involved Lois's heart
attack (P 361)
Rex - 1 founding members A.A. Sydney Australia, late 1944,
Australia's 1st A.A. secretary (A 86) (E 41)
Rhine, Dr. J. B. - Duke University; Bill corresponded reference
extrasensory perception (G 57)
Ricardo - inmate San Quentin, helpful bringing A.A. to San
Quentin (A 89)
Richard P. - 1st sober A.A. Ireland, Connor
F. Philadelphia tavern owner helped (A 83) (E 43)
Richards, Dr. Esther L. - John Hopkins Hospital Baltimore,
suggested having Number 1 physician write introduction Big Book, Dr.
Silkworth wrote it 9 days later (N 332) (P 201-2)
Richardson, Reverend Willard 'Dick'
S. - called 'Uncle Dick'; ordained Baptist minister;
handled John D. Rockefeller's Jr. private
charities, spiritual advisor; got Bill contact through Dr.
Leonard Strong; present 1937 meeting John D. Rockefeller's office
money raising; proposed Alcoholic Foundation be formed February 4
1938; Bill requested $50,000 turned down, given $5,000 -$3,000 pay Dr.
Bob's mortgage the rest split Bill & Dr. Bob $30 monthly; 1 1st
Alcoholic Foundation board member (A
14,15,114,147,148,150f,151-152,168,182,185,186,188,208,219) (B 274) (E
18) (G 98) (H 59,61,62,142-143,146,177,192,195) (L 108,197) (MS 9) (N
65) (P 181,182,183,184,187,188,202,232,279) (W 159)
Rickenbacker, Eddie - most decorated pilot in WWI, in WWII he
and crew were adrift for 27 days after plane crashed in Pacific, Bill
used analogy for group survival (A 97) (H 36)
Ripley, Mrs. Joseph Pierce - mother of Anne
Ripley Smith (Bob's wife) (D 29)
Ritchie, Charlie (or Charley Richie) - had influence Bill's
boyhood (B 42) (L 32-33)
Robbie (Robert) - 11 year old boy Goldfoots
were raising, got close with Bill during time worked on their farm to
make money during motorcycle trip 1925 (B 151) (L 42)
Robert H. - Bill wrote him in 1959 about loneliness (G
76)
Robert Ripley S. - Dr. Bob's son born
June 5 1918, nicknames 'Smithy' and 'Smit', wife Betty
Smith married 1944, started drinking at 16, alcoholic, attended 45
anniversary 1980 international convention (A 68) (C
2,99,120,128,154) (D
10,15,28-30,35-7,39-40,42,50,66,72,78,80,91,96,99,105-7,111-2,115-6,126-7,132,134,146,168,201,216,241,255,272,279-80,296-7,302-5,307-9,
311-2,316-7,320,327-8,333,341,344) (E 14,76) (L 96) (P
140,143,151,155)
Roberto C. - 12 stepped by Carlo
I.; together translated Big Book Italian, gave 1st Italian Big
Book to Lois 1980 International Convention New Orleans (E
51-52) (G 110)
Rockefeller Jr., John D. - ardent
champion Prohibition, extremely wealthy; helped A.A. steer clear trap
professionalism by not giving them much money; asked to donate
$50,000, donated $5,000 to treasury Riverside Church -$3,000 pay off
Dr. Bob's mortgage, then Bill & Bob get $30 monthly (A
vii,14f,87,111,112,134,150f,151,158,182-6,189,204) (B 276) (D
128-9,134-6) (H 61,62,66,105,143,146,149,192-3,) (L 109) (MS 9) (P
181,183-8,189n,232-4,256) (BB#3 named xviii)
Rockefeller Sr., John D. - American industrialist &
philanthropist (A 14)
Rockefeller, Nelson - son John D.
Rockefeller Jr. age 31, chaired February 1940 dinner for A.A. at
Manhattan's exclusive Union Club (A 183f) (B 295) (E
15) (H 62-3,145,146) (L 128) (MS 11) (N 93,417) (P 232-233)
Roland J. - spiritualist Doc Bob talked
to late 1930's (D 243,311-4)
'Rollicking Rollie' - nickname Rollie Hemsley
Rollie H. - nickname 'Rollicking
Rollie', early Cleveland A.A., famous baseball player, catcher
Cleveland Indians caught Bob Feller no-hitter May 1940, 1 1st big
names go public -1939 revealed got sober in A.A. caused lot publicity
-sports reporter really responsible; recruiting officer Akron
fellowship, stayed awhile with Oxford Group after Cleveland split (A
24) (B 300) (D 167,204,218,249,251-3) (L 146) (N 85-86,95) (P
236-8,243n,307)
Rollo M. - also known as "Roscoe",
joined A.A. May 1941, wife Ethel M. also A.A.,
12 stepped by John & Elgie
R. (D 223,243-244,284)
Roosevelt, Archibald 'Archie' - trustee, thought Bill
should not accept Doctorate Laws Yale University, other trustee's
thought should, Bill didn't (A 32,208) (L 157) (S 124)
Roosevelt, Franklin D. - US president, (H 265)
'Roscoe' M. - see "Rollo M"
Rose, 'Barefoot' - see, "Landon,
Rose"
Roth, Robert J. - associate professor philosophy Fordham
University; wrote 'William James & Alcoholics Anonymous' for America
July 1965 -based on discussions & sharing at 30th
International Convention Alcoholics Anonymous Toronto Canada 1965 (G
21)
Rowland H(azard) - see "Hazard, Rowland"
Roy Y. - Army sergeant, 1st Texan get sober
& stay sober, contacted by Larry J., later
stationed in Tampa started 1st groups on Florida's west coast (A
24) (D 259) (P 156)
'Rum hound from New York' - how Bill described himself
to Henrietta Seiberling May 11, 1934 (D
60)
Russ - childhood friend Bill's, communicated
with Morse Code at Rutland (P 22-23)
Russ R. - once partner Time-Life, atheist, stayed at
Wilson's home over year (B 263) (L 119) (P
164,165,166,167)
Ruth J. - Lois made a skirt for her (P 239)
Ruth G. - wife of the 2nd Ernie
G. -Toledo (D 141,175,226,235,300,312-3)
Ruth R. - wife Eddie R.
1st person Bill & Dr. Bob tried help, Ruth surrendered in Oxford
Group; they 2 children lived Dr. Bob & Annie; caused lot problems (B
249) (C 5,41-42) (D 77-78,80,99) (L 97) (P 151-152)
Ruth S. - husband Wilbur S., drove them
to see Stepping Stones (L 133)
Ruth T. - joined A.A. spring 1939, from Toledo, well-to-do
woman, hosted A.A. meetings her house (D
242-3,256,311)
Ryder, John - New York advertising executive, active Oxford
Group member 1930's; knew Bill from Calvary Mission days, supported
him (G 69) (P 173)
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Sackwille M - member Dublin group, noted as worlds champion at
helping AA's by mail, his story "The Career Officer" in 2nd
and 3rd edition of Big Book (A 83) (BB2 523-531 \ BB3
517-525)
Sadie - patient Dr. Dan
Craske Chicago mid 1939 (A 22)
Saint Francis of Assisi - Bill
admired, influenced by, patron saint (A 110-111,270f)
(G 22) (H 237-8) (P 302, 404-6)
Saint Ignatius of Layola - usually
in reference to 'Exercises of Saint Ignatius' and the '12 Steps' (A
253f) (H 365) (P 242)
Saint Paul - had spiritual experience
on road to Damascus (P 125)
Sam - high powered Yankee preacher, carried message to Atlanta
sparked growth, created sort of Chautauqua brand of AA (A
25)
Sam - early Chicago A.A., Earl
T. worked with, wife Tee (A 22)
Sam C. - started A.A. meeting Akron area, others didn't like
him (D 271)
Saul, Dr. C. Dudley - Philadelphian, told
friend, Judge Curtis Bok, owner, publisher Saturday
Evening Post, about A.A. (A 18) (H 363-4) (P 244)
Schneider, Norman - young Canadian; friend Lois in Young People
League, asked Lois marry him, family owned meat packing firm in
Kichener Ontario (B 85) (L 16) (P 48)
'Scientist' - nickname for Christian Science's (P
230)
Scott, Albert - chairman board trustees Riverside Church;
associate & advisor John D. Rockefeller
Jr., chaired meeting December 1937 to raise money from
Rockefeller; family owned newspaper Cambridge Ohio (A
15,148f) (B 274) (D 134) (H 59-60,192) (L 109) (N 65-66) (P
184-185,187,202)
Scuderi, Dr. Thomas P. - young emergency
room intern St. Thomas Hospital, worked with Sister
Ignatia on alcoholics, treated alcoholics until retirement (D
51-2,64,342) (S 9,144)
Seiberling, Frank - entrepreneur, founder 1st president
Goodyear Tire & Rubber company, father-in-law Henrietta Seiberling;
lived 65 room mansion Portage Path (D 56) (L 95) (P
136-137)
Seiberling, Henrietta - nickname 'Henri';
Frank Seiberling's daughter-in-law, graduate Vassar College,
housewife, separated from husband, lived gate house, 3 young children;
friend Anne Smith; went Oxford Group
meetings in 1932 at West Hill group, introduced Dr. Bob & Anne to
Oxford Group; prayed and received guidance to have special Oxford
group meeting on Dr. Bob's drinking; last name on list Reverend
Walter Tunks gave Bill when called from Mayflower Hotel, arranged
Bill & Dr. Bob meet Mother's Day May 12 1935 her residence; she
& Anne taught Bill & Dr. Bob start day quiet time, prayer,
reflection; unsympathetic to Bill about conference -believed Bill
finally succumbed madness (A 19,66,73,75) (B 236-237)
(C 2-3,36) (D
56,58-61,63-4,66,100,108,130,137,157-61,217-9,267,271,342) (E 12) (G
51,69) (H 355-7) (L 95) (N 27,31,35) (P 136-7,142,144,189n,301) (S
18,114) (W 156) (BB#3 unnamed 179)
Seltzer, Louis - editor Cleveland Press, rounded out
industrial meeting 15th A.A. anniversary (H 118)
Shaw, Elise - Frank Shaw's wife, matron of honor at Lois's
wedding, Lois oldest closest friend (B 111,137) (L
11,22,74) (P 175)
Shaw, Frank - wife Elise; Wall Street big shot, high up in J.K.
Rice Company; Bill did stock market investigations for him; parted
official company 1929, remained lifelong friends; died 1950's (B
137) (L 74) (P 69,72,74,75,78-80,85,175)
Shaw, Robert - lawyer, friend Willard
S. Richardson, early Board member (A 186)
Shaw, W.H. - faculty at Burr & Burton, pall bearer Bertha
Bamford Bill's childhood sweetheart (P 36)
Sheen, Monsignor Fulton - nationally
popular, radio show Catholic Hour; then monsignor, later bishop; met
with Bill on Saturday's better part of year to explain Catholicism (G
48) (N 52) (P 281-2,335)
Sheila T. - helped Nell Wing & Harriet
G. with archives (G 126)
Shep C. - Vermont; did considerable
drinking with Ebby T.; thru Oxford group,
tried help Ebby; went with Ebby to see Bill on Ebby's 2nd visit; came
Tuesday night meetings Bill's house; went Bill & Lois Oxford Group
meetings Calvary Episcopal Church 4th Avenue (B 211)
(L 91) (N 17-18) (P 113,115,116,162) (W 151) (BB#3 unnamed 9,13)
Shepherd - early New York A.A., folks thought would make it (P
227)
Sheppard, Norman - name Bill got from Reverend
Walter Tunks at Mayflower Hotel May 11 1935, trying to find a
drunk work with, he gave Henrietta Seiberling's
number to Bill (A 66) (C 5,35-36) (D 64) (L 95) (N 27)
(P 136) (S 19)
Sherwood, Carlton - friend Dick
Richardson, successful money charity raiser, tried raise money A.A.;
assisted in Rockefeller February 8 1940 dinner (A
152,182)
Shoemaker, Helen - wife Dr. Sam
Shoemaker, wrote book I Stand By the Door (H
379)
Shoemaker, Dr. Reverend Samuel -
wife Helen; rector Calvary Episcopal Church; leading figure Oxford
Group during 1920's-1930's; met Dr. Frank
Buchman China January 1918, he decided let go of self to allow God
guide him; converted by Dr. Buchman; opened doors & made Bill see
belief Higher Power not only change thinking feeling but become living
force in world; nonalcoholic spoke 2nd Intentional Convention St.
Louis 1955; Bill credited him for 12 Steps; died 1963 (A
xii,2,4,38-40,59,74,253,261-71) (B 226,261) (E 10,72) (G 97) (H
177-8,277,279,298,368,379-80) (L 92,103) (N 9,24) (P
116,127,129,169,174,178n,199,358,371,373) (W 118,175)
Sibley D. - Marty M. found her Bellevue
Hospital, guest Stepping Stones, talented violinist, didn't stay sober
(L 139) (P 335)
Silas B. - wife Beth;
Bill worked with Towns Hospital, once reporter Kansas City Star,
Bill took to hospital after sober, thought he going die (L
102)
Silkworth, Dr. William Duncan - little
doctor who loved drunks; ran Towns Hospital; graduate Princeton,
medical degree New York University-Bellevue Medical School, not
psychiatrist, specialist neurology; lost life savings 1929, arrived
Towns hospital 1930; theory alcoholism as combination physical allergy
& compulsion drink, holistic approachto disorders; met Bill during
2nd hospitalization at Towns, gave Bill information needed understand
alcoholism as illness; April 1935 told Bill quit preaching at drunks
-instead talk about illness, tell them physical sensitivity &
obsession, religion usually fills them guilt or rebellion; referred
prospects to Bill in 1937 -Fitz M. & Hank
P.; wrote introduction Big Book; suggested too many you
& must words in Big Book; wrote 3 articles on alcoholism Medical
Record; used term moral psychology to characterize word
fellowship; present meeting December 1937 Rockefeller raise money;
attended John D. Rockefeller's A.A.
dinner February 1940 (A
vii-viii,13,16,38,39,52,62f,63,67,74,143,148,155,158,160,161,167,168,183,206,219,244,302-8)
(B 191,224,227,233-234,274) (C 4) (D 68) (E 11-12) (G 97) (H
59,60,62,104-5,117,142,156,175-176,196-200,243-4,247,278-9,282-6,297,373)
(L 85,145) (MS 9) (N 14-15,19-21,65) (P
99,101-102,107-9,119-20,122n,123,125,126,127,131,133,143,154,165,184-5,191,197,200-1,232-233,318,388)
(W 153,156) (BB#3 unnamed xi,7,14,162 - named xvi,xxiii-xxx)
'Silky' - Dr. Silkworth's nickname, see "Silkworth,
Dr. William Duncan"
'Sir William' - Dr. Bob's nickname for Bill on state
occasions, see "Bill W."
Sisters of Charity of Saint Augustine - ran admitting office
St. Thomas Hospital (D 45, 198)
'Sky pilots' - Dr. Bob's nickname ministers (C
127)
'Slim' - anonymous name Bill used in describing danger
giving someone taking drugs alcohol (H 104)
'Smit' - Dr. Bob's nickname for son, see "Robert
Ripley S."
Smith, Alfred E. - 'celebrated American statesman', 4 time gov.
of NY, unsuccessful first Catholic presidential cantidate (BB#3
unnamed 50)
Smith, Anne Ripley - Dr.
Bob's wife, married 1915; maiden name Anne Robinson Ripley from
Oak Park Illinois, attended Wellesley Col., teacher; stated attending
Oxford Group meetings 1932 with friend Henrietta Seiberling; convinced
Dr. Bob go Oxford Group; Bill asked her write family chapter Big Book
she said no; suggested kneeling when giving self God; early 1936
organized wives group, Bill called her Mother A.A.; she &
Henrietta Seiberling taught Bill & Dr. Bob start day with quiet
time, prayer & reflection; talked Sister
Ignatia daily; with Sister Ignatia helped Akron's 1st alcoholic
women; died June 1 1949 age 68 heart attack (A
6,19,23,67,69,73,141) (B 237) (C 2-3,6-7,12,28-29,42-43,60,83,105,132)
(D
10,16,29-31,35,37-40,42,53,55-8,60,66-7,71-5,80-1,85-8,90-1,93,95,100,105,107-8,114-6,119,121,123,132,134,142,145-6,152-3,165-6,168,175,
177-8,182,195,197,208,213,216-7,223-4,233-6,242-3,252,255-6,268-9,272,278,281-3,292,294,296-8,300,302-4,309,311-3,316-7,320-3,327-31,336.341-2,344)
(E 14) (G 71, 88) (H 119,353-4,359-7,360) (N 40) (P
76n,137,140,143,147,148,149,151,152,162,177,195,275,334,339,342) (S
114,117,121-122,128,130-131) (W 180) (BB#3 unnamed 176)
Smith, Bernard B. - nickname 'Bern';
international lawyer; chairman Alcoholic Foundation; nonalcoholic
trustee 1944-1956; chairman General Service Board 1951-1956; architect
General Service Conference, convinced trustees change ratio -more
alcoholics on board then nonalcoholics; chaired & spoke 2nd
Intentional Convention St. Louis 1955, Kiel Auditorium, A.A. became
of age; only trustee who supported conference idea, worked with
Bill to bring about General Service Board permanent successor to
founders, brought majority trustees accept conference idea trial
basis; helped Bill put together General Service Conference structure
/architect conference; due Bill's illness called from New York 1970
Miami Beach International Convention deliver main speech; responsible
1957 new bylaws; died heart attack 1970 (A
xii,4f,47,126,186,208,212,223,256,273,274-283,281) (B 353) (E 19,72)
(G 96-98,106) (H 168,194,337-9,380) (MS 17,42,106) (N 130,251,259) (P
328,344-345,350,358,401)
Smith, Betty - Dr. Bob's son's wife
(daughter in law), married 1944; alcoholic father
got sober after Betty brought him Big book 1944; goes A.A. meeting for
self March 13 1979 (C 152) (D
297,302-4,309,316,318,339)
Smith, Dr. Bob - see "Bob S., Dr."
Smith, 'Bob' - Dr. Bob's son, see "Robert
Ripley S."
Smith, Jack - assistant Dr. Sam
Shoemaker, disapproved Bill's work with drunks (L
103) (P 169)
Smith, Robert - wrote acceptable script about A.A. for
Paramount Pictures in mid 1940's (G 8)
Smith, Robert Ripley - Dr. Bob's son; see "Robert
Ripley S."
Smith, Sue 'Suzanne' - see "Windows,
Sue"
Smith, Judge Walter Perrin - Dr. Bob's father, on Caledonia
County [Vermont] Probate court, state attorney various times, member
state legislature, superintendent St. Johnsbury schools, director
Merchants National Bank, president Passumpsic Savings Bank, taught
Sunday school 40 years, died 1918, didn't see son attain permanent
sobriety (D 9-10,14,26,28) (BB#3 unnamed 171)
Smith, Mrs. Walter Perrin -
Dr. Bob's mother, lived see him attain permanent sobriety
(D 9-10,172,318)) (BB#3 unnamed 171)
Smithers, Brinkley - chartered Lear jet to get Bill from
Bedford Hills New York to Miami Heart Clinic January 24 1971 (G
1)
'Smithy' - Bill's nickname Dr. Bob, see "Bob
S."
'Smitty' - Dr. Bob's son nickname also 'Smit',
see "Robert Ripley S."
'Some people' stayed Bill's house - Ebby,
George H., Oscar V.,
Russell R., Bill C., Florence
R. (A 64) (B 263-264) (L 105)
Spelman, Matilda - Lois's
mother (B 80) (P 86,87) (BB#3 unnamed 4,5)
Stafford, Governor - fall 1960, 25th A.A. Vermont anniversary,
gave Bill citation behalf A.A. (G 57)
Stouffer, Dr. - chief psychiatrist at
Philadelphia General Hosp (H 363)
Strobel, Dr. Charles - Bill's
mother's 2nd husband (step father), cancer specialist Memorial
Hospital New York, died June 1936 (B 154) (L 53,106)
(P 75,290)
Strobel, Dora - daughter-in-law Bill's step father Dr. Charles
Strobel (L 53)
Strobel, Percy - son of Bill's step-father, Dr. Charles Strobel
(step brother) (L 53)
Strong, Dorothy - Bill's sister,
married Dr. Leonard Strong (G 98) (N 14) (P
15,18-20,23-8,31-2,40,55,99,214,324n,329,335)
Strong, Dr. Leonard V. Jr. - husband
Bill's sister Dorothy; osteopath; stuck by Bill lowest times; Bill's
doctor confidant, gave Bill physical examination 1928, confronted Bill
drinking; arranged Bill's admission Towns Hospital 1933 & paid
bill; set up appointment Bill & Willard
Richardson, friend John D. Rockefeller;
essential link A.A. people around John D. Rockefeller Jr.; 1 trustees
1st board Alcoholic Foundation April 1938; 1954 resigned board due
question more alcoholics then nonalcoholics on board, served Board
Trustees secretary, died April 24 1989 (A
6,14,147f,151-152,168,208) (B vi,188,273,277,355) (D 142) (E 18) (G
97-98) (H 59,60,142-143,192,195) (L 34,86,108,197) (MS 9) (N 14,65) (P
98-9,108,181-4,188,214,217,361) (W 148,159) (BB#3 unnamed ?6,7)
Sue G - see "Windows, Sue"
'Sugar' - nickname few charge nurses Dr. Bob known &
respected long time (D 48)
'Sweetie Pie' - nickname Lorraine
Greim, Ruth Hock's nonalcoholic assistant,
started work Newark January 1940 (P 235,250)
Swentzel, Gardner - Lois's
sister Kitty's husband (brother in law),
1930's doing well at Taylor, Bates & Company firm closely
connected J. P. Morgan's enterprises; liked
Bill, introduced him Arthur Wheeler(B
180) (P 90)
Sybil C. - 1st woman A.A. Los Angeles (G 112)
Sylvia K. - glamorous divorcee, $700
month alimony, 1 of 2 women Chicago group 1939; credited having
longest uninterrupted sobriety any woman in AA; Dr. Bob, Henrietta,
Clarence & Dorothy S.
worked with her, her story "The Keys of the Kingdom" in 2nd
and 3rd edition (A 22) (D 180-1,241) (BB2 & BB3
304-12)
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'T.' - Dr. Bob's nickname daughter after character
Hortensia Twitchbottom (C 128)
Ted - boarder of Mrs. Gordon Oram San
Francisco late 1939; early A.A. didn't make it (A 88)
Teddy - Dr. Silkworth's redheaded
nurse Knickerbocker Hospital (A viii,14,206) (H
156,176,373) (MS 16)
Tee - wife Sam, early A.A.'s Chicago
Earl T. worked with (A 22)
Texon, Dr. Meyer - associate Dr. Silkworth
Knickerbocker Hospital, filled in Dr. Silkworth 15th Anniversary,
theme Gratitude (H 117)
'That guy' - Dr. Bob's reference to Bill
in letters to Ruth Hock (G
80)
Thatcher, Ebby - see "Ebby, T. "
Thatcher, Thomas - name on headstone outside Winchester
Cathedral Bill saw England 1918, Bill thought may be ancestor of Ebby
T., read epitaph Hampshire Grenadier (B 119) (L
25) (P 60)
Thompson, Dr. Philip P. - Dr. Bob's Dartmouth junior year
roommate (D 19-21,297-9)
Thompson, Francis - English Roman Catholic Poet 1859-1907; at
one time opium addict (A 257,259-61)
Thomsen, Robert - Bill's biographer, author Bill W. (N
13) (P 331,379)
Tiebout, Dr. Harry - 1st AA friend in
psychiatric profession; chief psychiatrist, medical director
Blythewood Sanitarium Connecticut; patients Marty
M., Grennie C.; suggested to many you
& must words in Big Book; with Dr.
Kirby Collier, Dr. Foster Kennedy & Dwight
Anderson responsible Bill speaking 2 medical societies; authored
professional papers why A.A. worked so well, referred to Bill as Mr.
X. in papers when quoting him; Bill saw for his depression
summer 1944 ; wrote "Role Psychiatry Field Alcoholism" 1951,
"Surrender Versus Compliance Therapy" 1953, "Ego
Factors Surrender Alcoholism" 1954; spoke 2nd Intentional
Convention St. Louis 1955; present 25th Anniversary 1960 Long Beach
California; Class A trustee General Service Board 1957-1966; died 1966
(A xii,2-4,18,167,204,235,244f,245-51,309-19) (B
25,303,334) (E 19,72) (G 66-67,92,97) (H 99,156,369-70) (MS 15) (N
126) (P 211,212,295-297,326,336,358)
Tom B. - wife said contact A.A. or else, wrote letter to
Capetown South Africa, received reply, started group Capetown II; (G
119) (L 164)
Tom B. - picture appeared Jack
Alexander March 1941 Saturday Evening Post article;
guaranteed light, heat, telephone A.A. 1st clubhouse 334 1/2 West 24th
Street; early Board member (A 180,186) (P 247)
Tom K. - early A.A. Board member (A 186) (P
217)
Tom L. - early A.A., wife Maybelle,
story "My Wife and I" in 1st edition (D
106,120,141) (BB1 287-95)
Tom M. - "Old Tom", ancient
fireman Bill & Lois got out Rockland State, brusque Irishman,
coffee maker/general caretaker/janitor at 334 1/2 West 24th Street A.A.
clubhouse, lived there; told Bill some bum from St. Louis to
see him -Father Ed (A
115-116,180) (H 366) (L 122) (P 241,247)
Tom P. - entered A.A. confirmed atheist,
changed mind; worked Bill editing 12 & 12, A.A. Comes
Age; present Los Angeles Veterans Administration Hospital when
Bill took LSD August 29 1956 (A 219) (B 356) (G 16,42)
(L 156) (P 271,279,280,301,302,303,354,370-371)
Tom S. - 1 earliest Jacksonville Florida A.A.; past trustee (G
124)
Tom Y. - 1st editor Grapevine (G 88)
Tompkins, Howard - of Beer & Company, Bill got involved
proxy fight control small machine tool company led him Akron;
impressed with Bill's recovery & sent glowing letter encouragement
December 1934 (L 94) (P 133)
Towns, Colonel Charles B. - owner &
founder Towns Hospital New York City with Dr. Lambert;
asked Bill work his hospital December 1936; loaned $2,500 help Big
Book get published; believed 'lack of occupation greatest destroyer of
men' -called them vagrant types, admit no 1 Towns hospital unless paid
advance & backer; present 25th Anniversary 1960 Long Beach
California (A 13f,15,100-101,115,159,171,176,188) (B
257-258) (E 72) (G 72) (H 106,144,148,176,180) (L 107) (N 63-64) (P
101,175-7,196,223,271) (W 160,163)
Trice, Harrison - 1958 nonalcoholic trustee (G
51) (P 394)
Tunks, Reverend Walter - Harvey
Firestone's minister; Bill called from Mayflower Hotel lobby May
11 1935; Rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Akron, long-time
Oxford Group enthusiast, gave Bill 10 names call, last 1 Mrs.
Seiberling; conducted Dr. Bob's funeral services 15 years later (A
66,73) (B 236) (C 5,35-36,63) (D 64-5,344) (E 12) (L 95) (N 27)(P 136)
(S 19) (BB#3 unnamed 154)
Twitchell, Hanford - nonalcoholic Oxford Group member; well
know professional New York; accompanied Bill to Towns Hospital &
Calvary Mission to talk to alcoholics (G 68)
Ty M. - Milwaukee A.A., came to Akron to get
help from Dr. Bob, wife Kaye M. divorced after he
sobered up; wife took Big Book Los Angeles fall 1939 (D
177) (P 266)
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Uncle Clarence - Bill got violin belonging him, learned play (P
31)
'Uncle Dick' - see "Richardson,
Reverend Willard (Dick) S."
Uncle Marley - had influence Bill's boyhood (B
42)
Underwood, Ivan - former Trustee (A 208)
Usko - seaman, sobered up in U.S., wrote
letter buddy Veikko K. in Finland (E
45)
Uzzell, Tom - on faculty New York University; writer Collier
Magazine, edited & cut pre publication Big Book at least 1/3,
some say 1/2, down to 400 pages (L 115) (P 204) (W
181)
Val D. - founder A.A. South Africa 1946, sobered up reading Big
Book (A 85) (E 46)
Veikko K. - received letters from buddy Usko
about program, started A.A. Finland (E 45-46)
Vi S. - joined A.A. with husband, Freddie
S. Cleveland 1941, help start women's group, example
ineffectiveness wet nursing (D 97,99,245-6)
Vic M. - early Sacramento A.A. (A 88)
'Victor' - see "Freddie S"
Victorine, Sister M. - contemporary of Sister
Ignatia, established alcoholic ward St. Vincent's Charity Hospital
Cleveland died January 1988 (A 20) (D 202) (G 24-25)
(H 204)
Virginia MacL. - sister of Dorothy S.M.
(Clarence S. wife), patient Dr.
Leonard V. Strong (Bill's brother-in-law) (D
142,313-4)
Voltaire - French philosopher and author 1694-1778 (A
267)
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W.W. - Yale University proposed initials conveying
honorary Doctor Laws degree to protect Bill's anonymity (H
206-207) (P 313)
Wade - Akron, early user of telephone to stay sober (D
146)
Wallace, Herb - friend Bill's before A.A. started; had Bill
take public speaking course (L 130) (P 173)
Wally G. - early Akron A.A., wife Annabelle
G.; co-sponsored Ty M. from Milwaukee with Dr.
Bob; daughter went King school, checked out to start A.A. meetings,
his story "Fired Again" in 1st edition (A
11,91) (D 119-21,140-1,147,177-8,213,219,223,254,289,290) (P 266) (BB1
325-331)
Walter B. - wife Marie; 1st alcoholic Dr.
Bob & Sister Ignatia admit St. Thomas
Hospital August 16 1939; notorious alcoholic & regular consumer
paregoric (over counter opiate), Sister Ignatia labeled problem acute
gastritis; joined A.A. September 1939, story "The
Back-Slider" in 1st ed of Big Book (BB1 265-273)
(D 106) (H 374) (S 14,16,122,146)
Walter C. - got sober reading manuscript
in Toledo state hosp., went 12 Step with Bob
(brother of Edith M.) Bob told 12 Step himself (D
253,257)
Walter P. - writer Bill contacted Towns Hospital, took home try
sober up (B 233)
Walter W. - alcoholic, wife Nona
W. alcoholic, early A.A.'s, friends Sister
Francis who invited to Joy Farm starting A.A.'s contact Sister
Francis (L 122)
Warren C. - joined A.A. July 1939, caused debate because not
hospitalized, 12 stepped by Clarence S. (D
102,109-10,158-70,203,209-10,241,261-2,264) (N 236)
Warren T. - wife Alice;
early San Francisco A.A., 1st member employed as alcoholic specialist
by industry -Kaiser shipyard, assisted in starting 1st A.A.
penitentiary group; worked with wife persuade top management 1
America's leading railroads to help alcoholic employees; died 1957 (A
88-90)
Watson, E. B. - 1902 class president Dartmouth, Dr. Bob's class
(D 19)
Watson, Professor - wrote letter 1958 A.A. General Service
Office about Dr. Bob (D 19,23)
Weaver, Marion - non A.A. office worker in mid 1940's, typed
the Traditions (P 321)
Weber, Delphine - friend Henrietta
Seiberling, Oxford Group member, late 1932 called Henrietta in
reference to Dr. Bob's drinking (D 57) (N 31)
Weekes, Dr. Frances - psychiatrist Bill saw in late 1940's (P
335)
Wes P. - chaired host committee 1970 International Convention
Miami Beach; raised $10,000 local groups to provide complimentary
coffee -consumed end 1st day (G 106)
Wes W. - lived Wilson's basement; day before died of cancer
asked Russ R. bottle Johnnie Walker Scotch Black
Label (L 119) (P 165,166)
West - nonalcoholic friend, accountant of
West & Flint & Co, lifelong associate Willard
S. Richardson, saw Works Publishing properly incorporated,
personally audited it since beginning 1938, turned over then Wilbur
S. (A 188)
Whalon, Mark - Bill's nickname for him
was 'my friend postman', Bill's closest childhood friend, met
spring or early summer 1908, 10 years older, sort of uncle or father
to Bill, worked summer jobs together, helped string 1st telephone
lines into East Dorset, hunted & fished together, shared interest
Vermont history, drank together; died 1956 (B 42-43)
(D 91) (L 32) (N 11,16) (P 22,49,50-1,84,336,364,403) (W 141)
Wheeler, Arthur - nickname 'Artie',
son of president American Can Company, hard drinker, introduced Bill
to Frank Winans the Chicago banker, April 8
1932 the three formed long term speculative syndicate based on Bill
not taking even 1 drink, Bill drank Jersey Lighting applejack middle
May 1932 (A 56) (B 180-181) (L 83) (P 90-91) (BB#3
unnamed 5)
Wilbur "Bur" S. - outside
accountant for headquarters office, took over from Mr.
West (A 189) (G 140)
Wilbur S. - friend Wilson's, wife Ruth S.,
drove them see Stepping Stones; (L 133)
Wilkie, Wendell - American industrialist and political leader,
unsuccessful US presidential candidate 1940, present February 1940 Rockefeller's
A.A. dinner (A 184) (B 296) (H 62)
'Will' - grandfathers nickname Bill, see "Bill
W."
Williams, Clarace - wife T. Henry Williams, nonalcoholic,
daughter Dorothy; friend Dr. Bob's wife,
held Oxford Group meeting in their house (A 19,75,141)
(C 28,44,123) (D 57-8,100,108,141,157-8,161,165,167,208,217,219) (L
104) (P 145,146) (S 31) (BB#3 unnamed 160)
Williams, Dorothy - daughter Clarace & T. Henry Williams (P
145)
Williams, Roger - T. Williams was direct descendant of this
founder Rhode Island & champion religious freedom in colonial
America (P 145)
Williams, T. Henry - wife Clarace daughter Dorothy; native
Connecticut; came Akron 1915; direct descendant Roger Williams;
well-to-do inventor, Oxford Group member, held Wednesday night Oxford
Group meetings home until 1954; lost job chief engineer at National
Rubber Machine Company in reorganization spring 1935; looked like
alcoholic; stood by Dr. Bob worst of times (A
19,75f,141,145) (C 44,123) (D
57-58,69,79,87,100-1,106,108,112,121-2,124,130,132,137-8,141-2,144,147,155,157-8,161-2,165,208,212,217-9,231,252)
(H 142,357,359) (L 104) (N 40,55) (P 145,146,171,180,243n) (S 31)
(BB#3 unnamed 160)
'Willie' - Dr. Bob's nickname for Bill; Bill's
grandmother's name for "Bill W."
Wilson, Barbara - Lois's sister, maid honor wedding; worked
Baylis & Co. introduced Bill there (B 111,137)
Wilson, Bill - see "Bill W."
Wilson, Christine - Bill's step mother (P
80,329,360,362)
Wilson, Clifford - pall bearer Bertha
Bamford, Bill's childhood sweetheart (P 36)
Wilson, Dorothy Brewster - Bill's
younger sister, called 'Dot', married Dr.
Leonard Strong Jr., they helped pay Bill's hospitalization (B
vi,11,188) (L 13,86) (N 10) (P 15,35) (W 139)
Wilson, Dr. Emily Griffith - Bill's
mother, born 1870; divorced Bill's father when Bill age 11; went
osteopathic school in Boston after divorce; helped pay Bill's Town's
hospitalization; refused nomination in Who's Who America;
eccentric, kept no books, guest 1955 Intentional Convention St. Louis;
died wealthy May 15 1961 at nursing home Dobbs Ferry New York age 91,
buried East Dorset cemetery Griffin family plot, 2nd
husband died June 1936 (B 12,41,188) (G 37,39,99)
(L 13,106) (N 10) (P
13-6,19,20,22-5,27-8,40,44-5,75,85,288-90,291,324n,329,335,350,358,380,387)
(W 139) (BB#3 unnamed 7)
Wilson, Family - Bill's family (picture) (P 41)
Wilson, Gilman Barrows - Bill's
father, born 1870, called 'Gilly', deserted family 1905,
quarryman heavy drinker not alcoholic, became manager Marblehead
Quarries, Canadian Marble Works Ltd., married Christine
Bock; died February 14, 1954 (B 9,12) (L 15,22) (N
10) (P 14-5,17,22-4,25,42,43,80,329,336,360,362-3,380) (W 137,139)
Wilson, Helen - Bill's 1/2 sister
born 1916, lived with Wilson's awhile in Bedford Hills; married Ralph
R., got 1st paid job in subscription department Grapevine (G
36) (L 139,176) (P 80,263,321,330,335,336)
Wilson, Lois Burnham - Bill's wife,
attended well known Pratt Institute Brooklyn, Friends school,
graduated Packer Institute Brooklyn 1912, 2 years New York School Fine
& Applied Arts; worked Central Branch YWCA Brooklyn, taught at her
aunt Marion's school 1917 for 1 year; worked Brooklyn Naval Hospital;
studied Braille & transcribed several stories Saturday Evening
Post; opened tea arbor summer 1915, engaged fall 1915 married Bill
January 24 1918; worked Macy's department $22.50 week plus 1%
commission while Bill drank, attended 3 Oxford Group house parties
with Bill; picture appeared Jack Alexander
March 1 1941 Saturday Evening Post article; she died October 5
1988, 97 years old, buried October 10, 1988 East Dorset Vermont (A
11,46,54,61,173,179,187,228f) (B 82,84-85,99,111,132,142-143) (C 4,8)
(D 70-1,77-9,87,,90-1,99,107,152,168,177-8,208,210,212,216,235) (G
1,3,31,54,83) (H 198,283,354) (L 1,4,12-14,22,74,114,130,156) (N 41)
(P
27,38,39-40,48,55-9,72-6,77,78,81-4,86-92,95,96,98,99,104-6,108,109,111,116,117,119,120,122n,125,127,131,134,135,136,144,146,147,152,158,161-9,
174-7,197,200.212-22,228,229,237,238,239,241,247,248,251,255,259,260,262,263,264,267,270-2,274n,275,278,279,281,283,286-91,293,294,313,321,
324n,327-330,335,337,360-361,371,372,381,393,395,400,401,402,403) (W
145-147)
Wilson, 'Widow ' - Bill's grandmother, ran Wilson House
hotel (P 13,42)
Wilson, Woodrow - US president, Bill's family may have been
related (P 15,39)
Winans, Frank - Chicago banker, April
8 1932 formed long term speculative syndicate with Bill & Arthur
Wheeler based on Bill not taking even 1 drink, middle May 1932
Bill drank Jersey Lighting applejack (A 56) (B
180-181) (L 83) (P 90-91) (BB#3 unnamed 5,?138)
Windows, Ray - close friend Dr. Bob's daughter age 12, Sue's
first beau & 2nd husband, married her December 19 1975, died
August 3 1989 (C 11-12,85,95) (D 93,106)
Windows, Sue - born February 15 1918,
Smith's adopted her in 1923, married 24 years to Ernie
G. A.A. #4 autumn 1935, married Ray Windows December 19 1975, age
48 start drink (1966), helped type stories Big Book read it 36 years
after published, Dr. Bob's nickname 'T.' after character
Hortensia Twitchbottom (A 6,68) (C
2,11-13,52,80-81,128) (D
10,15,30,35-7,43-4,50,60,69,71-2,74,80,87,91,93-4,98,105-7,115,126,132,154,290,297,311-2,318,321,344)
(E 14) (L 77,96) (N 316) (P 76n,140,152,155,336) (S 31)
Wing, Nell - nonalcoholic executive
secretary, assistant Bill, worked General Service Office March 3
1947-1982, secretary receptionist, secretary A.A. World Services Inc
Board, General Service Conference duties, publications editor; heard
about A.A. while attending Keuka College central New York State in
Sept 1939 reading article 'Alcoholics & God' in Liberty
magazine, nonconformist, met Bill March 4 1947; began archival
activity 1957, General office archivist 1971-1982; retired 1982; at
International Convention Seattle 1990 given 10 millionth copy Big
Book, (D 81) (E 21) (G ix,1,5-7,90,93,101-102,113,121)
(L 166) (N xii,252) (P
293,294,357,364,371,397,398,399,400,401,402,403) (S 29) (W 182)
'Woman' - Dr. Bob's nickname student nurses (D
48)
Wood, John E. F. - young attorney recruited for legal work
establishing Alcoholic Foundation, 1 1st nonalcoholic member Alcoholic
Foundation (A 151-152) (E 18) (H 61) (P 188)
Wright Brothers - proved ideas about
flying machines (P 31) (BB#3 51-2)
Wright, J. Carroll - sent Bill & Dr. Bob prospects,
minister Presbyterian Church that Smith's attended, asked them not
attend, causing friction due alcoholics, due to this Bob joined Dr.
Tunks' Episcopalian Church (C 127) (D 77,119)
Wylie, Mrs. - owner Blythewood Sanitarium, let A.A. meeting
hold there (A 18-9) (L 127) (P 216)
Wylie, Philip - wrote article "Philip Wylie Jabs a Little
Needle into Complacency", said he was alcoholic quit solo (H
97-9)
Wynn L - story "Freedom From Bondage" appears in 2nd
and 3rd editions of Big Book (BB2 553-62 / BB3 544-53)
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Mr. X. - what Dr. Harry Tiebout called "Bill
W" in papers when quoting him; also used to referred to
"Clarence S." in pamphlet of sermon
by Dr. Dilworth Lupton; name liquor trade
association wanted to use referring to their educator in publicity (A
20,108,309) (B 335)
Zerelda - spent night with Wilson's (P 335)
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*Many thanks go out to Archie M., who originally
compiled this list. Thanks to Bill L. and Nancy O. who
helped with the added information
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