Juillet 1965 : Bill W. remercie Sybil C.
First Edition First Printing Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions Pocket Gift Edition Inscribed by Bill to Sybil
This is a 1st/1st Pocket 12&12 gifted to Sybil C. by Bill W. with the following inscription.... "Sybil Dear, For your wonderful devotion to so many! for your constant friendship to me, I give everlasting thanks. Affectionately Bill NY July/65"
Opposite on the inside cover Alabam wrote her name and phone number.
Sybil C. was the first woman to enter A.A. west of the Mississippi. Her date of sobriety was March 23, 1941. In 1939, while visiting her mother, she read the Liberty magazine article called “Alcoholics and God.” She thought the story fascinating but did nothing about it and her downward spiral continued. Eighteen months later God gave her another chance, when she read the Saturday Evening Post’s March 1, 1941 issue which contained the famous Jack Alexander article about A.A.. She wrote to New York and received a reply from Ruth Hock, then Bill Wilson’s secretary, who told her that there were no women members in California, but that Marty Mann was sober in New York. Ruth referred her to the small group of men then in the area.
Frank R. explained that everything she needed to know was in the Big Book. "And it says right in here that when all other measures fail, working with another alcoholic will save the day. That’s what you will be doing, Sybil, working with other alcoholics". It worked, and she never had another drink.
When Bill and Lois Wilson made their first visit to Los Angeles in 1943, Sybil was one of the delegation of local A.A.’s who met them at the Town House hotel. Later she met Marty Mann. Because of her dedication to AA, her intensive work with alcoholics and her role in the growth of LA's AA community, Bill and her became good friends. She and Ruth remained friends throughout her life as well.
Sybil was honored at the International A.A. Convention in Montreal in 1985. She was then the longest-sober living woman in A.A. When she was introduced to the 50,000 attendees from fifty-three countries, she told the colorful story of A.A.’s beginning in Los Angeles, in which she had played such a vital role. When she finished her talk, the audience rose to its feet as one and gave her a standing ovation which continued so long that some thought it would never stop.
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