Marty Mann, another AA socialite that broke the traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous, becoming a solicitor for the cult.

Marty Mann, Pioneer

Marty Mann founded the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD) in 1944, a time when few Americans understood alcoholism as a disease, one that was deadlier than all but heart disease and cancer. The first woman to stay sober in Alcoholics Anonymous, Marty wanted to share the joy of her recovery, using knowledge and reason to destroy the stigma that discouraged many people from seeking help. Marty dedicated her life to informing the public that alcoholism was not a weakness of character, but a disease from which every alcoholic could recover.

Marty traveled the United States garnering support for her awareness campaign, earning the support of those in recovery along the way. Brinkley Smithers, one of the founders of the IBM Corporation, took notice of Marty’s efforts and his financial support enabled Marty to expand her travels, providing lectures on alcoholism and organizing NCADD affiliate field offices throughout the country. Marty’s direct educational and organizational contributions to these communities lent credibility to the idea of alcoholism as a disease and cleared the way to treatment options that reflected this new understanding.

NCADD in Alaska

Marty arrived in Alaska during the 1960s and established organizations throughout the state. The Juneau Affiliate, founded in 1965, was the first nonprofit incorporated affiliate in Alaska. For 45 years we have been focused and exacting in our core missions of stigma reduction and intervention in the disease process of those afflicted by chemical addiction. Funded by government grants, private foundations, and fees from services, we have consistently fought chemical addiction for almost as many years as Alaska has held statehood.

AA has no leaders and the Books published by AAWS are not approved by a "conference?. In fact "conference approved" did not come about until May 21, 1993 when AAWS (not the fellowship) failed in lawsuits for the circle and triangle logo. At that time they replaced the circle and triangle with "conference approved" without going through any conferences.

http://www.barefootsworld.net/aaconferenceapproved.html

You should go back to the old standby of "it doesn't happen in my group" Clara. The people here know AA history much better than you.

Al-Anon was founded in 1951, it certainly didn't do his marriage any good.

Francis Hartigan: "In the mid-1950s, when Bill was in his early sixties, he began an affair that was different than any he had before. The Woman's name was Helen Wynn, and she was in her early forties when Bill met her. Helen and Bill were together some fifteen years. They saw each other regularly in New York and later in Pleasantville, a town fifteen minutes south of Bedford Hills, where Helen bought a home."
Source: Francis Hartigan. Bill W.: A Biography of Alcoholics Anonymous Cofounder Bill Wilson. 2000. pg. 190.

Sooo... why was everyone beating up on Marty Mann today? She didn't break any traditions and she had Bill W's support. What the heck?

Yes. And....?

Flan, that's exactly what I was thinking when I read this quote.

"After a while I go obey because I saw that the Traditions were wise and right. While I conformed because it was right to do so, I still resisted inwardly." Bill W.

He wrote them, didn't want to conform to them, and still inwardly resisted, but thought they were wise and right. But he wrote them. Let me it again. He wrote them. What a confused narcissist he was. LOL!