A year later a central committee was formed to coordinate the activities of seven groups in all. Growth continued with a third group starting in February ’46 and a fourth in August. Three years later Group #1 had 10 members Group #2, 25. broke away and started a new group, a stag group, Mac I., secretary. By December, it had 16 members and listed Frank D. He was put in touch with the Kalamazoo group and with its help, held the first meeting in Grand Rapids in September 1941 in the YMCA. read Jack Alexander’s article in The Saturday Evening Post and wrote to the A.A. was starting in the western part of the state, first in Kalamazoo and then in Grand Rapids. A step meeting on Mondays was added in ’45.Īt the same time, A.A. In October 1941, a Northwest group was formed, meeting on Thursdays, with a membership of about 20. Six months later there were three groups–West, Central, and East. By February 1940, the fledgling group had seven members and began meeting in the basement room of a home of a non-alcoholic couple on Taylor Avenue, on the cities west side. who became member #2 in Michigan, another alcoholic and a non-alcoholic woman. in Michigan was held in Arch T.’s room in the Art Center in Detroit. In December 1939, the first meeting of A.A. Bob until July 1939, when he returned to Detroit with the admonition to seek other drunks to help. So on September 1 of that year, Arch went to Akron, where he was hospitalized and then began attending meetings of the new and nameless group of alcoholics who were managing to stay sober. Although he lived in Detroit, Michigan, word had filtered up to him in 1938 of a doctor in Akron, Ohio, who was somehow able to help people like him stop drinking. The following article was written in 1985 by Area 33 past Archivist Cliff M.Īrch T. in Detroit and the growth of General Services in Michigan Alcoholics Anonymous History In Your Area
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