Mental Health Building
1116 South Hull Street, Montgomery, AL 36104
The Living Sober Group meets Monday and Wednesday at 6:00 pm for a closed discussion meeting. All meetings are non-smoking.
History:
The Living Sober Group began as an A.A. meeting at the treatment facility inside St. Margaret’s Hospital in downtown Montgomery. The meeting was started in September, 1984, by Pal G., a recovered alcoholic who served as the Public Relations Director for the treatment facility. At that time, A.A. members from the community were not allowed to attend.
The group registered with GSO in February, 1985. At that time, the group met at several locations inside the hospital. They moved from St. Margaret’s to the First Alabama Bank building on Adams Street, where they rented the bank’s second-floor office space, which included a waiting room and two smaller meeting rooms. The group met there from November, 1985 until November, 1986, when the bank asked the group to move.
Buddy S., the GSR, contacted Rev. Mark Waldo, the rector of the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, and the church welcomed the group at their Clanton Avenue fellowship house. With this move, the group fully ended its relationship with the St. Margaret’s Treatment Unit.
The Living Sober Group registered with GSO on February 5, 1985. At that time the group met in St. Margaret’s Hospital in Montgomery. Meeting times were Mondays and Wednesdays at 6 pm, and Saturdays at 3 pm. Pal G. served as the GSR and there were 45 members. In November, 1986, Buddy S. informed GSO that the group would be located at the Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Montgomery. Group change forms reveal that the group once again changed their meeting location from the church on Clanton Avenue to [their present location] South Hull Street. The Living Sober Group first appeared in the 1985 A.A. Directory.
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