Tom O. — AA Meeting (Unknown)

RS-G098 · CLASSIC ERA · AA · UNKNOWN

Tom O.

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SpeakerTom O.
EventAA Meeting
LocationUnknown
YearUnknown
EraClassic Era
FellowshipAA
Duration54:23
RS NumberRS-G098
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St. Vincent Charity Hospital. Rosary Hall. Speaking for all of the sisters and staff of Rosary Hall, Mr. Farrell Gallagher and his large committee, it is my privilege to welcome you here to this annual meeting. This is the fifth annual anniversary meeting of Rosary Hall. It was only five years ago, around this time of the year, that the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine turned over that large wing on the second floor of St. Vincent's Charity Hospital to this work. Now, they named it Rosary Hall Solarium. And RHS, also the initials of the co-founder, Dr. Robert H. Smith, the late Dr. Smith, and also signifying the joint effort of the Sisters, a Catholic religious organization, and AA, a strictly non-secretarian organization, the two of them joining forces to do something for the alcoholic. This was not the Sisters' first attempt at help to AA. Since 1939, Sister Ignatia, Dr. Bob at Akron, and in their other hospitals, they'd always tried to help. But this was the most ambitious program of any general hospital in the history of the country. How well it succeeded, five years, and they've had 5,000 patients who have gone through there. How many of them have arrested, and I use the verb advisedly, their problem, only the Lord knows. But people close to Rosary Hall are of the opinion that three out of four of them have achieved a lasting sobriety. And it is this achievement that we honor each year. These annual meetings also serve to remind the graduates of Rosary Hall of the purpose for which they were hospitalized. And these annual meetings also tend to remind all of us of the important part Rosary Hall is playing in the development of this organization, which the co-founder himself here recently, in the very title of his new book, refers to as a new organization that has just come of age. For our speaker today, we have again reached into the New York area. We have a gentleman, an attorney by profession. More important here this afternoon, AAY is extremely active in New York and has served for a number of years on the editorial board of the Grapevine. I'm pleased to present Mr. Thomas O'Brien of New York City. Applause Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Sister Ignatia and friends of Rosary Hall, as your chairman has said, my name is Tom…

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