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
2010-2011 Officers and Executive Board of Directors |
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| President | Valerie Thompson |
| Vice President | Laura Jesswein |
| Secretary | Jamie Haire |
| Treasurer | Kathryn Pittman |
| Winter Fundraiser | Anissa Moore/Kelli Cundith |
| Placement | Patty Baker |
| Past President | Emily Stewart |
| Ways and Means | Angie Saliba/Kay Jackson |
2010-2011 Clinic/Committee Chairmen |
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| Auxiliary | Dawn Barnes |
| Cookbook | |
| Community Outreach/Scholarship | Linda Overton/Karen Nunnally |
| Dorothy Quick (Evergreen) | Carrie Zloty/Trina Medlock |
| Meals on Wheels | Melinda Williams |
| Membership | Laurie Applefield |
| Newsletter | Maureen Frazier |
| Placement | Maureen Frazier |
| Properties | Carmen McCord |
| Provisional | Amber Brockett/Holli Closson |
| Publicity | Patty Alexander |
| SEACT | Lotte Shipman |
| Social | Dena Smith |
| Scrapbook | Carrie Zloty |
| Website | |