Obituaries

Active in the Ukrainian National Association since the 1970s, Mr. Iwanciw directed the association's Washington office from 1988 to 1995, focusing on obtaining U.S. aid for Ukraine. He was elected second vice president of the association's executive committee in 2002 and headed its Baltimore-Washington-Virginia District Committee.

Mr. Iwanciw was president of the Optimist Club of Arlington in 2003-04, working on initiatives to benefit children. He was prominent in Optimist International's Capital-Virginia District and was the chairman of the conventions and meetings committee. He helped sell Christmas trees at the Optimist Club's tree lot in Arlington to raise money for Arlington Babe Ruth Baseball teams, soccer teams, an oratorical contest, a chess club and scholarship programs.

Mr. Iwanciw was a volunteer tutor at Arlington's Barcroft Elementary School and H.B. Woodlawn Middle School. He was president of Arlington's Inter-Service Club Council in 2004-05, a member of the Leadership Arlington Class of 2005 and a member of the Arlington Chamber of Commerce and the Arlington County Republican Committee.

Survivors include his parents, Michael and Anna Iwanciw of Union, N.J.; and a sister.

Dooley StephanosSupreme Court Secretary

Dooley Stephanos, 73, a former secretary to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, died of cancer Feb. 25 at her daughter's home in Laurel.

Ms. Stephanos, a native Washingtonian known in her youth for singing and softball, won the WWDC radio station's talent contest when she was 13 and the next year won a talent-search contest that sent her to New York to audition for the "Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour" television show. She also sang in the St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral choir.

Ms. Stephanos pitched for the Roosevelt High School girls' softball team and could outrun most of the boys in her class, her family said. She graduated in 1950 and went to work as a secretary for the D.C. Municipal Court and for the U.S. Bureau of the Budget.

After her marriage in 1954, she resigned to raise a family in White Oak.

In 1978, Ms. Stephanos returned to federal employment, working part time at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In 1980, she worked full time at the Naval Surface Weapons Center and later at the Harry Diamond Laboratories and the Federal Judicial Center.

Ms. Stephanos moved to Ocean Pines, Md., in the late 1980s and accepted a position with SYSCON Corp. on Wallops Island, Va. In 1988, she returned to the Washington area to work at the Federal Judicial Center, followed by an appointment in 1989 as assistant secretary to Blackmun, a position she held until retiring in 1994.

Ms. Stephanos moved back to Ocean Pines to care for her mother. In 1999, she moved to Burtonsville until 2002, when she built a new home in Ocean Pines and returned there.

Ms. Stephanos enjoyed the company of friends and family, playing tennis at the Ocean Pines Tennis Club and bowling in the Ocean Pines Bowling League, where she earned high average, series and game awards at the end of each year. She enjoyed music and needlework.