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Appendix 1

Bill W's Birthplace
Wilson House, East Dorset, VT. Birthplace of William Griffith Wilson, Co-Founder, Alcoholics Anonymous.
Bill W and Ebby T in 1955. Ebby (1897-1966), a boyhood chum of Bill's, brought the Oxford Group's message to Bill in November, 1934.
Bill W and Ebby T
Towns Hospital
Towns Hospital, 293 Central Park West, New York City. It was here while under the care of Dr William Duncan Silkworth that Bill W had his life-changing spiritual experience. Remarkably, Dr Silkworth did not scoff at Bill's enthusiasm but rather encouraged it.
Dr William Duncan Silkworth (1873-1951), physician-in-chief, Towns Hospital. "Silky" treated thousands of alcoholics at Towns and was one of AA's earliest supporters in the medical profession. A graduate of Princeton with a specialty in Neurology from NYU-Bellevue, he was among the first in his profession to develop the disease concept of alcoholism.
Dr Silkworth
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