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Regular Meetings
Tuesday - Open Discussion - 8PM at the Agape Center. Birthdays
Celebrated the last Saturday of the month History
Carol Land Ragsdale Jim P., Chuck C., and Royce W., who were members of the Starmount Group, decided in October of 1977 to start a new Group at the Agape Club. Although Royce died in December of 1977, Jim and Chuck carried on with the plans. The first meeting was held on the first Tuesday in January 1978. Christine W. remembers, / I found the Downtown Group in August 1978. It was warm and friendly, very helpful and loving. At that time there were about 18 members. Some of them were newcomers, like me, and some had lots of time in the fellowship. We had one couple, J.W.C. and his Al-Anon wife, Inez. The rest of the Group was single. It was not by design�it just happened.� Some of the other early members were Charles K., John R. and Larry J. The Group meets today, as it did then, at 8 PM on Tuesdays and Saturdays at the Agape Club on Eighth Street. There are 19 group members. Chuck C. and Christine recall, / We had one treasurer who did not know where to send the Seventh Tradition money, so she paid the rent and put all the rest in the bank. We had lots of money by the end of her service period. After that we had one who kept the money at home. He would not bring it to us. Two of the members finally went to his house and got it. A later treasurer also kept the money at home and did not keep records, and we never got most of it. But in between those 3 we had responsible people who knew what to do�or were willing to learn. We had no blacks in our Group in 1979, and now it is over half black. We are still growing and are still helpful, loving, caring and friendly. At the start, birthdays were celebrated on the last Saturday of the month. Later it was changed to the second Saturday, because we wanted to attend other birthday meetings but not miss our own. / We have had ups and downs like most other AA groups. In fact, we seem to be about normal, whatever that is.� This history was written in May 1995 |
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