AA and Al-Anon
Speaker Recordings
"Experience,
Strength and Hope"

Dr. Bob's Son

Known to many as "Smitty" and a member of Al-Anon 7 years since around May 1979, he shares what brought him into the sister program of the one his father helped found in 1935.

His wife Betty was sober 7 years 8 months and 2 days at the time of this talk.

His mother Anne, Bill W called the mother of AA.

Smitty shares little jewels like:

• the early member who chased Anne through the house with a butcher knife
• his father's birds-and-bees talk with him
• the day he took his dad to meet Bill W for the first time
• taking his dad to Vermont one last time after the first AA International in 1950
• the purchase and active restoration of his boyhood home on Ardmore in Akron, OH

This tape was not labeled as Dr. Bob's son and was thrown in a box with others at an AA event where I grabbed a handful without looking.

A gift to all of us I hope now that it is shared.

Smitty's wife Betty told her AA story in Memphis in 1995:

Betty S of Nacoma, TX at Memphis, TN 1995

Smitty told his story in 2003 after Betty died:

Bob S, Jr (AFG) of Memphis, TN at Marietta, GA 2003