Members of the Sorosis Club, realizing the need for a women’s service organization in the Wiregrass Community, organized the Dothan Service League on May 22, 1946. Under the leadership of Mrs. Martha Chapman, the League’s first president, the League emerged as an organization of women dedicated to volunteering their time and their talents to various clinics and fundraising projects which today continue to support local Wiregrass agencies, as well as the Wiregrass community.

During the League’s early years, members donated a bookmobile to the Houston-Love Memorial Library, sponsored the Gingerbread House to provide childcare for working mothers and founded the Dothan Service League Girls Club (which now operates under Girls, Inc.). Later years found League members serving the community through delivering Meals on Wheels to home-bound residents, overseeing art projects at the Children’s Rehabilitation Center, and staffing the Gift Shop at the Southeast Alabama Medical Center.