El Toyon Chapter in Stockton celebrated their 119th Birthday in September with a “Drive-By” party.

The promise of an appearance by Birthday Fairy lured over 30 members to get in their vehicles, despite (or in spite of)
COVID-19 and drive-by to pick up a party package and their yearbooks.
Specially hand-baked cookies, party hats, noisemakers, patriotic kerchiefs,
and more were put into colorful bags and ties with a bow to place in the
vehicles as the ladies drove by waving and honking their car horns to
celebrate the occasion.

Organized in November 1900 and officially chartered in January 1901, El
Toyon has carried out the DAR mission – Education, Patriotism, and
Historical Preservation – with enthusiasm. The ladies in the chapter make
quilts for soldiers in trauma units at VA hospitals, have adopted a 5th
grade class in which 90% of the student’s families fall 120% below the
poverty line providing school supplies and reading buddies, collected over
150 books for the Chemwa Indian School in Oregon, have 22 high schools
participating in DAR Good Citizen, and delivered over 350 poster-size U.S.
Constitutions to local schools.