Regina Books, PO Box 280,
Claremont, California 91711. ISBN 1-930053-15-0.

AA History Author Dick B writes me Sunday Jan 19 2003

I just purchased two copies of Willard Hunter's new book (Busdrivers Never Get Anywhere: A Rendezvous with the Twentieth Century). I am donating one to the Griffith House Library in East Dorset, and I thought you might want to be one of the first to run something about it on your hot website. Willard has undoubtedly done more than anyone alive to get the Oxford Group story before AAs.

For almost 13 years, he has provided me with every conceivable lead and support and finally with his entire OG library. He wrote the Foreword to my Oxford Group book. He is responsible for my contacts and friendship with OG leaders like Garth Lean, Michael Hutchinson, James Draper Newton, Eleanor Forde Newton, Ken Belden, George Vondermuhll, Jr., Dick Ruffin, Harry Almond, Howard Blake, Charles Haines, and a host of others. Between the sendoff that Bill Pittman's AATheWay It Began gave me and the contacts with Willard, I was able to put together The Oxford Group and A.A., Good Morning, Courage to Change, New Light on Alcoholism, and much more.

Ultimately, a good part of the resource collection from MRA, George V., the Newtons, and Willard himself can be attributed to Willard's support.Willard spoke at our Day in Marin program a decade ago, and he has appeared just about everywhere I have spoken. He is a wonderful friend of A.A., an astute scholar, and a great highpoint in my historical research and writing.

His autobiography has been published by Regina Books, PO Box 280, Claremont, California 91711. ISBN 1-930053-15-0. Today's AA would know little of the Oxford Group origins without Willard's dedication to the truth about them.