AA History: Nell Wing

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🗓️ 8 July 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This one is for the AA history buffs, if you need to hear a meeting right now pick a different episode. Nell Wing is likely someone you have never heard of, she began working at AA World Headquarters in 1947, she is speaking at the first Monterey California Roundup in September of 1993. She tends to verbally wander around a bit but there are some interesting bits of AA history mixed in as well, I was particularly amused by her Ebby story. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Next AA Event: If you are in the Pennsylvania area July 14th, The Annual Pennsylvania State Convention of Young People in Alcoholics Anonymous will feature speakers, panels, workshops, fellowship events and fun! https://scast.us/penn AA Event List: https://scast.us/events If you have an AA roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out here on the podcast and list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2200+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

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0:22.4	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:27.4	It's a rare and happy privilege for me today.
0:30.8	Now, is that better?
0:31.8	No.
0:32.8	Yeah, it is a rare and happy privilege for me today to be able to introduce a loved and
0:40.4	honored friend of nearly 30 years and one who was very important to me in my early days
0:49.6	of sobriety.
0:52.9	Right after World War II, a young and bouncy no wing popped out of the U.S. Coast Guard service
1:02.6	after trying a few other things landed on the doorstep of what is now the General Service
1:08.7	Office of Alcoholics Anonymous in New York City.
1:15.2	For a number of years, she was the only non-alcoholic on the staff there.
1:21.2	For 20 years, she was Secretary to Bill W. Cool Fonder of Alcoholics Anonymous and Chief
1:28.5	Architect of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous.
1:36.2	Along the way, she acquired some other duties like being Executive Secretary of the General
1:41.7	Service Board of AA, Publications Editor, and if you see all the pamphlets and the books
1:48.4	and stuff out there, you can see what the test might have been.
1:57.2	All the time collecting and filing data, which became in time the foundation for the archives
2:07.1	of Alcoholics Anonymous.
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