In 1893, Samuel Moor Shoemaker [right]
was born in a second-floor front room of a rented house on Read Street in
Baltimore, Maryland. He was the son of Ellen Ward “Nellie” Whitridge, who
later became president of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Episcopal Diocese of
Maryland, and Samuel Moor Shoemaker, Jr., who eventually served as chairman
of the Board of Regents of the University of Maryland. His parents had met
at Emmanuel Church in Baltimore, where Sam’s uncle was the rector.
When Sam was two years old, the family would move to their country home, Burnside, located about ten miles [~16 km] north of Baltimore. For Sam, this was home throughout his life. Between 1860 and 1863, his grandfather had purchased thirteen tracts of land, totaling 467 acres [nearly 2 km2], that comprised Burnside—a beautiful piece of land nestled between two lines of gently rolling hills in the Green Spring Valley.
In 1957, Dr. A. Weise Hammer
[left], 77, died
[below right: obituary]. He was an early supporter of Alcoholics Anonymous in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. Bill W.’s tribute to him in the May 1957 issue of the A.A.
Grapevine provided the following “abbreviated list” of his
contributions:
When Sam was two years old, the family would move to their country home, Burnside, located about ten miles [~16 km] north of Baltimore. For Sam, this was home throughout his life. Between 1860 and 1863, his grandfather had purchased thirteen tracts of land, totaling 467 acres [nearly 2 km2], that comprised Burnside—a beautiful piece of land nestled between two lines of gently rolling hills in the Green Spring Valley.
In 1957, Dr. A. Weise Hammer
[left], 77, died
[below right: obituary]. He was an early supporter of Alcoholics Anonymous in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. Bill W.’s tribute to him in the May 1957 issue of the A.A.
Grapevine provided the following “abbreviated list” of his
contributions:Opened his home to all AA members—secured the Philadelphia Group its first meeting rooms—introduced us to Dr. Stouffer, another great friend-to-be, who was then Chief Psychiatrist at the Philadelphia General Hospital—secured us treatment and visiting privileges there—had AAs speak before the County Medical Society—along with his good wife, Helen, attended nearly every AA meeting for years—gave free medical and surgical aid to every AA who wanted it—visited other cities to talk about AA and paid the expenses of the Philadelphia members he took along—offered to buy the Philadelphia Group its first clubhouse (which had to be declined)—saw that his friend, Judge Curtis Bok, owner of The Saturday Evening Post, became interested in AA—and finally induced the Judge to assign Jack Alexander to do the famous article in 1941 that made our fellowship a national institution.
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