The Early AAs Were All Men

Dr. Bob’s son “Smitty” says: “The early alcoholics were all low-bottom, they were all men… There was one lady who came along fairly early in the program named Elsie, but they caught Elsie doing a little 13-step work on Dr. Bob’s examining table with one of the early AAs named Mitch. The wives and sweethearts went up in smoke and so the group decided they would contain their efforts to men.”