“What do you think made the Nashville
meetings the way they are, Harvey A.?”

There I was sitting at an AA meeting in early Feb ‘84, when a man announced he was starting an SA group in Nashville, TN. I surrendered six weeks later when I met at his apartment for my first SA meeting. Soon we outgrew his apartment and moved to my office building. That first year we had one meeting a week with about 100 people coming and going, mostly going. After a few months we had our first woman attend who became a major sober member to help anchor the meetings. From the beginning we drew many women to the fellowship.