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Thacher, Ebby,--1896-1966, W., Bill, Alcoholics--United States--Biography, Alcoholics Anonymous--History.
publication date
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1998
lcc
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HV5293.T53B3 1998eb
ddc
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362.292/86/092
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Thacher, Ebby,--1896-1966, W., Bill, Alcoholics--United States--Biography, Alcoholics Anonymous--History.
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Ebby: The Man Who Sponsored Bill W.
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Bill Wilson (left) and Ebby at the Second International Convention of AA in St. Louis in 1955.
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Ebby: The Man Who Sponsored Bill W.
Mel B.
[Ebby] pushed ajar that great gate through which all in AA have since passed to find their freedom under God.
Bill W. In his remembrance of Ebby, AA Grapevine, June 1966
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Hazelden Center City, Minnesota 55012-0176 1-800-328-9000 (U.S., Canada, Virgin Islands) 1-651-213-4000 (outside U.S. and Canada) 1-651-257-1331 (24-hour fax) http://www.hazelden.org
1998 by Hazelden Foundation All rights reserved. Published 1998 Printed in the United States of America No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any manner without the written permission of the publisher
ISBN: 1-56838-162-X 02 01 00 99 6 5 4
Book design by Will H. Powers Typesetting by Stanton Publication Services, Inc. Cover design by David Spohn
Quotations from literature published by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services. Inc. are reprinted by permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.
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In gratitude to William P. Harris Lynchburg, Virginia Dr. Vernon O. Ray Rockford, Illinois who donated funds for the production of this book.
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Contents
Dedication
v
Foreword
ix
A Note on Anonymity
xiii
Acknowledgments
xv
1 A Call from an Old Friend
3
2 Friends from Different Worlds
15
3 Summer People in Manchester
23
4 Golden Days in Albany
31
5 An Exile in Manchester
43
6 Cebra, Shep, and Rowland
49
7 A Resident at Calvary Mission
63
8 The Lost Years
77
9 Rock Bottom
93
10 A Time of Renewal in Texas
105
11 The "Perfect Woman"
127
12 Peace at McPike's Farm
135
13 Ebby and the World of Relapse
147
Bibliography
155
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Foreword
The year was 1934. Newly elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with the United States in the turmoil of the Great Depression, declared, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." National Prohibition ended. The movie King Kong was playing at Radio City Music Hall to sellout crowds. Admission was ten cents. For those who were working, the average household income was $1,048. Outside Chicago's Biograph Theater, a barrage of FBI bullets brought down Public Enemy No. 1, John Dillinger. Bob Hope's radio show premiered. In New York City a sober Ebby Thacher made a phone call to his old friend and drinking buddy, a drunken Bill Wilson. Ebby's phone call set in motion a series of events that have changed, for the better, the lives of millions of men and women and their families the world over.
The biography that follows highlights the message of recovery Ebby presented to Bill and the subsequent founding and growth of the fellowship and program of Alcoholics Anonymous. One may ask, why a biography of Ebby? After all, it is well known in the AA fellowship that Ebby's only significant role in AA was to carry the message of hope to Bill. He had little to do with the writing of the Big Book or the laborious work of getting the early AA society established and function-
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ing. Later on, he even became a sort of hanger-on who seemed to trade on his friendship with Bill.
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