Vic G. — Beginners Club Meeting (1952)

RS-G099 · PIONEER ERA · AA · 1952

Vic Gray

Beginners Club Meeting · Unknown
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SpeakerVic Gray
EventBeginners Club Meeting
LocationUnknown
Year1952
EraPioneer Era
FellowshipAA
Duration55:38
RS NumberRS-G099
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Tonight is January 6th. We will have fourth class given by Vic Gray. Tonight is January 6th. We will have fourth class given by Vic Gray. Well, good evening friends. Welcome to the fourth and final class. We call it the final class, but in AAEY we don't have any graduations. We don't pass out any sheepskin. And I'd like to introduce myself. I'm Vic Gray. Tonight we will discuss briefly what you've heard in the previous three classes. And we'll take up the two remaining steps that haven't been discussed, Steps 10 and 12, and also we'll talk for some minutes on the general setup there at 2218. In talking about the classes, I always like to go back and refer to the classes that I had when I first came into 2218 here. When I first came in, we didn't have this whole auditorium in. All we had was the back end. And one of the first things that the fellow said that had the classes was, in AA, we don't tell you that you have to do anything. He says all AA is, is a group of suggestions that may make it easier for you to stay sober. And that sort of hit home for me because I've been so used to people telling me that I had to do this and I had to do that. You see, I'd spent 13 years in the Army and I had to listen to all that stuff quite a while. And being an alcoholic, I didn't like that business of people telling me that I had to do this and had to do that. And when he said that, that AA didn't tell us that we had to do anything, that sort of hit home. He said all it was is a group of suggestions that may make it easier for us to stay sober. And he said along with that, he would like to ask all of us, and at this time I ask all of you, to keep an open mind in this AA business. There'll be a lot of things said, you've probably already found this out. There'll be a lot of things said that when they are first said, you'll probably think, well that doesn't apply to me at all. It doesn't enter into my case. By keeping this open mind, you won't let those…

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