Go Cardinals! Barringers at Rose Bowl for win of alma mater Stanford
By Peggy Kelly
Santa Paula News
Published: January 04, 2013
By Peggy Kelly
Santa Paula Times
Come join the band
And give a cheer for Stanford red
Throughout the land
Our banner waving overhead
Stanford for you
Each loyal comrade brave and true
With might and main sings this refrain
“Forever and forever Stanford red.”
After the game
When Stanford red has won the day
Praising her name
Down to the field we’ll force our way
And on the green
Each man who joins the serpentine
With might and main sings this refrain
“Forever and forever Stanford red.”
(Stanford Fight Song: “Come Join The Band!”)
It was a day at the Rose Bowl for Stanford University alumni Carl and Cathy Barringer, who with granddaughter Heather McClamroch and other family attended the New Year’s Day game to give a cheer for Stanford red.
The Stanford Cardinals were pitted against the University of Wisconsin Badgers but came out ahead, taking the Rose Bowl with a 20-14 score.
The Barringers’ championship football outing included attending the official Stanford tailgate party, organized into graduating class sections. “...But there was not a section for 40s,” said McClamroch. “My grandparents said they were ‘going with’ the Class of ‘48 but my grandfather kept specifying that if he hadn’t gone to war he would have graduated with the Class of ‘44!”
Everyone, especially Carl Barringer, a former Santa Paula City Councilman and Mayor, “had a great time at the game!” As did McClamroch, who wore an official Cardinal red sweater she said he had given her years ago when she left home for college: “It’s Grandpa’s old ‘study sweater’ from Stanford... it’s probably 70 years old or so!”
