1935: Sam Shoemaker [left, 1940]
wrote to Bill W. [right], saying, in part:
I hope you realize the guided-ness of your having known Jim Williams previously, as I understood you did, in business. His wife, Margaret, is full time [sic] in the [Oxford] group and he has held out for a long while. You may be just the person that cracks the shell and brings him over. He drinks a lot and is desperately unhappy and inferior and needs what you have got for him. I am grateful for what you did for [Dr. Frederick E. “Fred”] B――[, Sr.].
Dr. B. [left]
was a prominent chemist who had recently served as president of the
American Institute of Chemists and chair of the chemistry department at
Brooklyn College. He had become Bill’s first serious prospect on Christmas
Eve, just six days after Bill was discharged from Towns Hospital.
1942: Bill and Lois W. [right: in
front of Stepping Stones, c. 1941]
returned home from a successful cross-continental trip, which included
stops in all the major cities where Alcoholics Anonymous was active.
However, shortly after their return, Bill fell into a suicidal depression
that would last until 1955.
I hope you realize the guided-ness of your having known Jim Williams previously, as I understood you did, in business. His wife, Margaret, is full time [sic] in the [Oxford] group and he has held out for a long while. You may be just the person that cracks the shell and brings him over. He drinks a lot and is desperately unhappy and inferior and needs what you have got for him. I am grateful for what you did for [Dr. Frederick E. “Fred”] B――[, Sr.].
Dr. B. [left]
was a prominent chemist who had recently served as president of the
American Institute of Chemists and chair of the chemistry department at
Brooklyn College. He had become Bill’s first serious prospect on Christmas
Eve, just six days after Bill was discharged from Towns Hospital.
1942: Bill and Lois W. [right: in
front of Stepping Stones, c. 1941]
returned home from a successful cross-continental trip, which included
stops in all the major cities where Alcoholics Anonymous was active.
However, shortly after their return, Bill fell into a suicidal depression
that would last until 1955.
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