Have you seen the ISCC Welcome sign on Langston Boulevard? Additions are always welcome. For more information on having your organization’s emblem on this sign, come to any ISCC meeting!
What are Service Clubs?
Service clubs are voluntary organizations through which individuals help meet the needs of our Arlington community. These clubs raise funds for and work on projects in our community. Service clubs and organizations focus on all segments of our society from youth to the handicapped to the elderly to the truly needy. Many clubs focus on specific areas of need while others contribute to a wide-range of programs.
What do Service Clubs Do?
The member organizations of the ISCC help our Arlington community through granting scholarships, providing s shelter and health care for the needy, sponsoring youth programs, addressing problems of hunger and illiteracy, helping the visually and hearing impaired, helping to preserve the environment, sponsoring programs for the mentally retarded and handicapped, organizing drug and alcohol education programs, preserving the history of Arlington, and many other programs. Many of the ISCC member clubs focus much of their efforts on youth, the most important and most vulnerable segment of our society. Through the sponsorship of academic, sport, and social programs, clubs provide our young people with educational opportunities, leadership training, and guidance through the challenging years of growing up in our society.
What do Service Clubs Contribute?
Service clubs contribute leadership, expertise, time and money.
Service clubs have taken the lead in helping address the unmet needs of our Arlington community; needs that often fall through the cracks of government sponsored programs. The members of service clubs are generally professionals with expertise in all fields of endeavors. Many members are already retired and contribute their life-long experiences. This is an invaluable resource. The thousands of members of the ISCC service clubs contribute their time to both working on and raising funds for projects in our community. It is estimated that the ISCC member clubs contribute over 100,000 man-hours of volunteer time each year. Service clubs raise funds in the private sector for their programs and for contributions to other needs of Arlington. It is estimated that the ISCC member clubs contribute close to a million dollars a year to Arlington programs. In a proclamation, the Arlington County Board acknowledged that “the services performed by the ISCC member organizations enrich the county with benefits which otherwise would cost thousands of tax dollars.”
Past Presidents
| Year | Name (Organization) |
|---|---|
| 2021-Present | Sandy Bushue (Optimist Club of Arlington) |
| 2019-2020 | Brig Pari (SMASH) | Joseph Lott (Arlington Rotary) |
| 2017-2018 | Edd Nolan (Kiwanis) |
| 2015-2016 | Joseph Lott (Arlington Rotary) |
| 2012-2014 | Elizabeth Schindler (Host Lions) |
| 2011-2012 | Kim Durand (Arlington Rotary) |
| 2009-2010 | Karen Albert (Zonta) |
| 2008 | John Hilton (Kiwanis) |
| 2007 | John Karinshak (Host Lions/Optimist Club of Arlington) |
| 2006 | John Hilton (Kiwanis/Optimist) |
| 2005 | Larry Hynson (Sunrise Lions) |
| 2004 | Ilse Williams (Soroptimist) |
| 2003 | Eugene Iwanciw (Optimist Club of Arlington) |
| 2002 | Thomas Smolinski (Kiwanis-South Arlington) |
| 2001 | Richard R. Rhoads (Better Sports Club) |
| 2000 | Barbara E. Nicastro (Optimist Club of Arlilngton) |
| 1999 | Joe Turney (Civitan) |
| 1998 | Paul Showalter (Arlington Jaycees) |
| 1997 | Andy Barr (Optimist Club of Arlington) |
| 1996 | Walt Gallagher (Better Sports Club) |
| 1995 | Amanda Yauger (Pilot) |
| 1994 | John T. Halliday (Host Lions) |
| 1993 | John Watson (Lions-South Arlington) |
| 1992 | John Krug (Civitan) |
| 1991 | Thomas Cooper, Jr (Knights Round Table) |
| 1990 | Warren J. Harrison (Lions-Northwest) |
| 1989 | Kathryn R. Golden (BPW) |
| 1988 | Fred H. Felton (Kiwanis-S. Arlington) |
| 1987 | Pauline A. Ellison (Links) |
| 1986 | John Sadder (Knights Round Table) |
| 1985 | Marion W. Malone (Pilot) |
| 1984 | Margaret M. Kilduff (Altrusa) |
| 1983 | Carol A. Grant (Links) |
| 1982 | Lewis Watson (Knights of the Round Table) |
| 1981 | Archie D. Simpson Jr (Lions Northwest) |
| 1980 | Dr. Pheobe H. Knipling (Quota) |
| 1979 | John J. Buckley (Jaycees) |
| 1978 | Angelo J. landolo (Lions-Rosslyn) |
| 1977 | Helen F. Tyson (Altrusa) |
| 1976 | James L. Hemingway (Rotary) |
| 1975 | Martha Schuchart-Sachs (Zonta) |
| 1974 | George R. Walz (Rotary) |
| 1973 | J.Lawrence Manning (Kiwanis) |
| 1972 | Preston E. Sewell (Civitan) |
| 1971 | Joan E. Wikstrom (Quota) |
| 1970 | John P. Ellis (Jaycees) |
| 1969 | John T. Halliday (Host Lions) |
| 1968 | Thomas A. Kamstra (Exchange) |
| 1967 | Mildred Waters (Pilot) |
| 1966 | Ken McFarlane Smith (Kiwanis) |
| 1965 | Henry R. May (Civitan) |
| 1964 | WaIter Woodside (Optimist) |
| 1963 | J. Ray Edwards (Lions-Northwest) |
| 1962 | C. Wynne Tolbert (Potomac Kiwanis) |
| 1961 | James R. Mims, Jr. (Rotary) |
| 1960 | Robert E. Skinner (Host Lions) |
| 1959 | Franklin I. Chace (Kiwanis) |
| 1958 | Lou Maser (Knights of the Round Table) |
| 1957 | James R. Lupton, Jr. (Rotary) |
| 1956 | Helen K. Finley (Quota) |
| 1955 | r. Alfred Churchill (Rotary) |
| 1954 | Walter W.Woodal (Host Lions) |
| 1953 | J. Wooten Pearce (Kiwanis) |
| 1952 | Ray Baker (Host Lions) |
| 1951 | Bill Jefferay (Rotary) |
| 1950 | Richard Palmatier (Kiwanis) |
| 1949 | Lester V Johnson (Host Lions) |
| 1948 | Alvin I. Coppage (Optimist Club of Arlington) |
| 1946-1947 | J. Fred Able (Civitan) |
| 1945 | Frank H. Eastman (Rotary) |
| 1944 | Lena M. Wolfe (Soroptimist) |
| 1943 | Anna Hedrick (BPW) |
| 1942 | Charles R. Fenwick (Rotary) |
| 1940-1942 | George P. Grove (Host Lions) |