Dothan Service League - Women Building Better Communities







			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. 2007-08 Officers Back Row (L-R): Kellie Folger (Winter Fundraiser Chairman); Marcella West (Ways & Means Chairman); Dena Smith (Cookbook Treasurer); Allyce Read (Placement Chairman) Front Row (L-R): Carla Barnett (Treasurer); Angela Wells (President); Robyn Dean (Vice-President) 2007-08 Standing Committees and Clinics *Committees* Community Outreach/Scholarship Chair: Joyce Tyson Co-Chair: Linda Overton Committee: Lee Ann Boykin, Jennifer Joyner, Jacque Ferry, Jerre Lu Mason, Allyce Read, Robin Yelverton Constitution/Historical Preservation Chair: Carmen McCord Co-Chair: Christie Armstrong Committee: Tammy Dillard, Kellie Folger, Bonnie Hersey, Joleene Peters, Kimberly Pfeiffer, Sharon Redick, Angela Wells Membership Chair: Joleene Peters Provisional Chair: Kimberly Pfeiffer Auxiliary Chair: Angie Sherrill Committee: Shannon Holloway, Melissa Lawrence, Amanda McDonald, Connie Nelson, Nichelle Walley, Marcella West Newsletter Chair: Sharon Redick Committee: Provisional Class Placement Chair: Allyce Read Publicity Chair: Kellie Folger Co-Chair: Lotte Shipman Social Chair: Tammy Dillard Co-Chair: Connie Nelson Committee: Carla Barnett, Robyn Dean, Linda Overton, Lotte Shipman, Emily Stewart, Joyce Tyson Website Chair: Robin Yelverton Co-Chair: Allyce Read Ways & Means Chair: Marcella West Co-Chairs: Bonnie Hersey and Emily Stewart Committee: Christie Armstrong, Kitty Edwards, Kellie Folger, Bonnie Hersey, Nichelle Walley, Angela Wells Winter Fundraiser Chair: Kellie Folger Co-Chair: Robyn Dean Committee: Jacque Ferry, Bonnie Hersey, Jerre Lu Mason, Linda Overton, Kimberly Pfeiffer, Emily Stewart, Angela Wells Clinics Cookbook Chair: Joleene Peters Co-Chair: Tammy Dillard Committee: Second Year Class Dorothy Quick (Evergreen) Chair: Angie Saliba and Leeann Morris Meals on Wheels Chair: Joyce Tyson Co-Chair: Melissa Lawrence SEACT Chair: Kimberly Pfeiffer