Starting in April 36 Joe Doppler was the first documented cleveland ?person to get sober. He was followed by 7 more documented people by the end of 1938. ?We dont know how if their were others.. ?They drove 35 miles to ?Akron on wednesdays for the weekly oxford group meeting at the williams’s. ?These were not AA. The group that had formed in NY were at first oxford groupers that broke off and met at Bill house. They possibly call themselves a nameless group of drunks and ?it wasn’t until after the book had come out that they started calling themselves alcoholics anonymous.?

There was a Group in Akron, A group in New York and a group from Cleveland who traveled to Akron. In May of 39 they became the 3rd independent group. The early Clevelanders were a small contingent or group whose origins started in 1936-37 and later formally became an independent 3rd group.?

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