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After his high school graduation, Wilson was encouraged to attend a seminary. He studied at Southeastern University and obtained a degree in theology. In 1979, Bill Wilson moved to Bushwick in Brooklyn, New York. In 1980, armed with a bull horn, a station wagon and Yogi Bear costumes, Bill created Metro World Child (formerly Metro Ministries). [3]
William Griffith Wilson (November 26, 1895 – January 24, 1971), also known as Bill Wilson or Bill W., was the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) with Bob Smith.. AA is an international mutual aid fellowship with about two million members worldwide belonging to AA groups, associations, organizations, cooperatives, and fellowships of alcoholics helping other alcoholics achieve and ...
Pass It On: The Story of Bill Wilson and How the A. A. Message Reached the World. New York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services. ISBN 0916856127. Cheever, Susan (2004). My Name Is Bill: Bill Wilson – His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 074320154X. Hartigan, Francis (2000). Bill W.:
On June 10th DON'T raise a glass in celebration of Alcoholics Anonymous' 80th anniversary. The international mutual aid fellowship, commonly referred to as AA, was unofficially founded on June ...
Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. is an American telecommunications company. [6] Known as Citizens Utilities Company until 2000, [7] Citizens Communications Company until 2008, [8] and Frontier Communications Corporation until 2020, [6] as a communications provider [9] with a fiber-optic network [10] and cloud-based services, [11] Frontier offers broadband internet, digital television, and ...
Aug. 4—Sculptor Bill Wilson's work was widely recognized in Western New York and even across the country and in other parts of the world. In the City of Niagara Falls, the artist who specialized ...
The Wilsons bought the house on 1.7 acres in 1941 more than five years after Bill W. took his last drink in December 1934. Lois Wilson later co-founded Al-Anon there.. The desk on which Bill wrote much of the book Alcoholics Anonymous ("The Big Book", the principal text of A.A.) resides at "Wit's End," the office retreat he built out of cinder block with a friend on the property.
Rogers Burnham, a younger brother of Lois, became friends with a local boy named Bill Wilson (William Griffith Wilson). Lois and Bill met in the summer of 1914, when Lois was 23 and Bill was 19. At that time, Lois was a college graduate and working with the YWCA. Bill was working his way through Norwich University. The following summer they ...