Who we Are
Letter From the President
Dear Friends,
Let me begin this letter with an enormous “Thank You” to all of you for your commitment and hard work to our League and our community. I am truly honored to be a part of this organization, and I am even more honored that you have asked me to serve as president for one more year. For those of you who have served in this role, let me assure you that I have not lost my mind completely! I thoroughly enjoy what I do.
I once read that “God is much more interested in “Life is full of stress and our CHARACTER than our COMFORT.” Those sacrifice, and the easiest of us who have chosen to serve in the League are way to deal with stress living proof of that. Life is full of stress and sacrifice, and the easiest way to deal with stress is is not by focusing on not by focusing on ourselves, but by focusing on ourselves, but by others and what we can do to help better their focusing on others and lives. I challenge all of you not to be driven by what we can do to help guilt or pressure. Let the PURPOSE and LOVE for others drive you! better their lives.”
Our signature project this year is to assist the Spectrum Group with funds to help start a center for autistic children. We will be active in our fundraising efforts and community outreach in all areas of need. We will also continue to deliver Meals on Wheels, call bingo at the Dorothy Quick Senior Center, and host a better-than-ever Christmas Tour of Homes! I look forward to a fun-filled year of dedication and character building!
Sincerely,
Emily Stewart
Our Mission
History
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.
For more than sixty years, this League and the Dothan area have prospered due to the dreams and ambitions of hundreds of dedicated League members who have given over 300,000 volunteer hours and $950,000 to transform our community. That’s who we are – Women Transforming Communities! League members continue to leave behind a legacy of service, commitment and an unwavering faith in the Dothan Service League and the Dothan area.
Board of Directors
Officers
Pictured counter-clockwise: Emily Stewart Valerie Thompson Carla Barnett Robin Yelverton
Committee Listings
| Auxiliary | Dawn Barnes |
| Community Outreach/Scholarship | Linda Overton/Karen Nunnally |
| Constitution/Historical Preservation | |
| Cookbook | Beverly Burchett |
| Dorothy Quick (Evergreen) | Jacque Ferry |
| Meals on Wheels | Jamie Haire |
| Membership | Patty Baker |
| Newsletter | Amy Sanders |
| Placement | Maureen Frazier |
| Properties | Laura Jesswein |
| Provisional | Dena Smith |
| Publicity | Kitty Edwards |
| SEACT | Carrie Zloty |
| Social | Amber Brockett |
| Ways & Means | Anissa Moore |
| Website | Kitty Edwards |
| Winter Fundraiser | Carmen McCord |
| Wiregrass Children’s Home | Kelli Cundith |