>>> Bill White <[log in to unmask]> 07/05/98 03:22pm >>> I am preparing a brief history of pre-AA mutual aid societies in America. To date, I have identified the following: Native American Temperance Societies, the Ollapod Club, the Washingtonians, exclusive Fraternal Temperance Societies, the Appleton Home Temperance Group, the Dashaway Association, the Business Men's Moderation Society, the Reform Clubs (Osgood, Reynolds, Murphy, etc), the Keeley Leagues, the Harlem Club for Former Alcoholic Degenerates, the Jacoby Club and the United Order of Ex-Boozers. I am restricting my inquiries to those groups that were not professionally directed and that were organized by and for those with drinking problems (thus the exclusion of the Oxford Group). If any list members have run across pre-AA mutual aid societies other than those noted above, I would appreciate hearing about them. Bill White