James Houck sober 60 years as a member of the Oxford group

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🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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James Houck is the speaker, at the time of this recording in 1996 he had been sober 60 years, getting sober in 1934. He is not a member of AA but is a member of the Oxford group. He is speaking as a guest of AA at this particular meeting, and presents a very interesting perspective on the early days and formation of AA. Repost from 2018. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate If you have an AA roundup, retreat or convention coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out and list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit our Linktree, click "Submit An AA Event" and fill out the short form. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sobercast Sober Cast has 2000+ 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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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops in
0:11.2	podcast format.
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0:22.7	We hope you enjoyed the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:27.7	James Hauke, senior, he is from Timonium, Maryland, it's twice in a row, I've gotten
0:36.6	it to two out of the four in bed.
0:42.9	The reason that this is such a monumental occasion is Jim is 90 years old, has not had a drink
0:49.6	in 60 years, and did it at the old fashioned rate.
0:55.2	The old fashioned way in the Oxford group, so he is coming to us this evening as a distinguished
1:06.6	guest of alcoholics anonymous.
1:09.9	Now I know that I have created a lot of controversy myself traveling around the country as an
1:14.5	archivist, and one of the controversies that is still raging everywhere I go is whether
1:19.9	or not we can even consider this to be an AA meeting since we have a non-AA speaker.
1:24.4	I want to assure you that our history goes back all the way to 1935 with non-AA members
1:31.2	speaking at meetings, and it's also in the first group handbook as one of the three
1:39.3	meeting formats, and it was called Distinguished Guests of Alcoholics Anonymous, and the conventions
1:45.2	at 1955 and 1960, especially 1960, Bill Wilson had sister Nacia on the podium, who was
1:52.6	not an alcoholic, same shoemaker, who was not an alcoholic, and on and on, and his wife,
1:59.0	lowest was not an alcoholic, and others, yeah, I'm sure there were.
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