What is the history of the relationship between S.M.A.R.T. Recovery and Rational Recovery?
Jack Trimpey founded Rational Recovery Systems in the late 1980s. In 1991 he invited an informal group of Professional Advisors for a meeting in Dallas, Texas. A second meeting occurred in Sacramento, CA, in August, 1992. There the group agreed that incorporation of a nonprofit organization, which would have primary responsibility for managing Rational Recovery support groups, was desirable. This incorporation, under the name Rational Recovery Self Help Network, occurred at the end of 1992. The nonprofit corporation was granted a license in perpetuity by Trimpey to use the name Rational Recovery. In 1993, the informal group of Advisors, now transformed into the Board of Directors of the nonprofit corporation, met in Boston, Massachusetts, and elected officers Joe Gerstein, President; Tom Horvath, Vice President; Dave Trippel, Secretary; and Peter Bishop, Treasurer. Trimpey was elected interim Executive Director, and he announced his intention to phase out of that position as soon as a
