FALL 2011 FALL 2012 THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA MARCHING BAND AND THE CAL BAND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION A Cal Bandsman overlooks Memorial Stadium and the brand new Members of the Straw Hat Band play in Ohio Stadium at the Cal vs. Ohio press box. State game on September 15, 2012. Home Sweet Home: Returning to Memorial Stadium Cal Band Visits Ohio State Trevor Ford, trumpet ’09 Sara Van Valkenburgh, clarinet ’10 Most of us can agree that it has been a crazy couple of years for This past September, fi fty members of the Cal Band had a chance Cal Football fans. At the end of the 2010 season, we said goodbye to return to the source of many beloved Cal Band traditions: Ohio to our lovely old Memorial Stadium, and then spent the 2011 season State University. We boarded a charter fl ight out of Oakland at AT&T Park, home of the San Francisco Giants. And though we Airport on a Thursday morning, along with donors and Cal alumni. were grateful to be able to spend a year in the domain of the 2010 Thursday afternoon and Friday morning allowed for some free time to (and now 2012) World Series Champions, the season seemed to lack experience Columbus, Ohio – our hotel was right downtown next to that indescribable feeling that Memorial Stadium always brought us. City Hall and other historical sights. We missed our pregame concerts in Sproul Plaza. We missed our On Friday afternoon the band was lucky enough to attend one of winding march-ups through campus. We missed the chiming of our the Ohio State Band practices, and discover fi rst-hand where several shining Campanile. But most of all, we missed Memorial Stadium: Cal Band traditions originated. After the 1950 Rose Bowl, when the our stands, our fi eld, our home. Now though, in this 2012 Fall Season, Cal Band’s performance appeared lackluster compared to the Ohio we have returned to the new and improved Memorial Stadium, and State Band, football coach Pappy Waldorf sent scouts to Ohio to fi lm with every intention of sounding cliché, I must say, “There’s no place the band and had the tapes sent back to Cal. This is when Cal Band like home.” adopted high step, our current marching style. Over the year and a half that the stadium was under reconstruction, Other traditions adopted from Ohio State include the Script Cal we watched every day as the old, worn stadium was disassembled, at the end of our pregame show (adapted from their impressive and a brand new, renovated stadium sprang up in its place. And you Script Ohio), the drum cadence “Ohio,” which is performed at every can’t help but notice that they pulled out all the stops when it came sporting event as well as during march-up, and the tunnel yell that to fi xing up Memorial Stadium. The edifi ce of the stadium was given occurs before the band rushes out of the tunnel to begin pregame: a total makeover, looking much cleaner and more polished that when “Sticks up! Pick up your heels! Turn your corners square! And Drive! we last saw it. We have also been graced with an improved terrace Drive! Drive!” area with stairs leading up to the entrances. And these are just some The Ohio State Band has in general a much more competitive of the things that have been changed on the outside of the stadium. atmosphere than our band here at Cal. While the Cal Band is entirely Inside, we see that the seats have been replaced and upgraded, student-run, they have staff who chart their shows, write their music, the fi eld has been lowered, new, high defi nition jumbotrons have and run their rehearsals. Practices are very organized, and there been added above each end zone, and most noticeably, a large and are alternates just waiting to challenge someone who has made a impressive press box has been added to the West side of the stadium. mistake in a show. While the Cal Band has to cut a few members This new Memorial Stadium is truly a stadium to be proud of. every year, Ohio State potentially cuts hundreds of people a year, and (continued on page 2) (continued on page 6) www.calband.berkeley.edu Photos by the San Francisco Chronicle and GoldenBearSports.com Page 1 Page 2 The North Tunnel Echo winning Bay Area niche publishing fi rm run To ensure that Lila gets off to a good start, her by Grace and her hubby of 20 years, Genro Grandad Lloyd Amborn (trombone ’60, DM Sato (trombone ’85, SM ’88). 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Chris, Hilary, later, Melissa and Seth are happy to announce Tiscareño-Sato (trombone ’85, PRD ’88) and Alistair live in Mountain View, where the adoption of their second child, Joshua, announced the upcoming publication of Chris is working for a start-up, and Hilary is born on August 28, 2012. her fi rst children’s book titled “Good Night currently looking for a job in the nonprofi t Captain Mama.” Inspired by a conversation sector. with her preschool-aged son when he fi rst saw Piper her in her Air Force fl ight suit, this beautifully Amborn PPiperiper aandnd LLilaila AAmbornmborn illustrated book is a creative collaboration (trumpet between three Bay Area moms. A portion of ’94) and all sales will be shared with an organization partner that trains women military veterans to become Bethany entrepreneurs. The book will be published by Gardner Gracefully Global Group LLC, the award- welcomed the arrival Th e North Tunnel Echo of their ______ fi rst child on June Erin Proudfoot ’92 Ben Weise ’09 19, 2012, CBAA Communications Cal Band Public Committee Chair Relations Director when Piper gave ______ birth in Erika Gonzalez ’03 San Diego Editor to Lila ______ Grace. Contributors The family Spotted resides in El Cajon, California, and Piper is an Future bandsman hitching a ride up Theresa Carey ’73 Andy LaBatt ’90 elementary teacher in East San Diego County. to Memorial Stadium. Which former Tim Castro ’86 Kiran Permaul ’10 bandsman’s child is already practicing Dan Cheatham ’54 Jerry Taylor ’66 for his future band performances? Nick Cotter ’11 Sara Van Valkenburgh ’10 Trevor Ford ’09 Ben Weise ’09 Home Sweet Home continued from 1 Barbara Goodson ’77 ______ However, as impressive as the new stadium is, what really makes the return home so Please address comments to: wonderful is all the intangible traits that make a Cal game special. Nothing can compare to the sight of an entire crowd painting the stands with blue and gold, or the sound of “Roll The North Tunnel Echo University of California Marching Band On You Bears” after passing the 50 yard line. But most of all, nothing can compare to the 72 César Chavez Student Center # 4280 feeling of charging out of North Tunnel, cannon shot echoing through the air, to the cheers Berkeley, CA 94720-4280 of thousands upon thousands of fans all united and proud to call ourselves Golden Bears. I e-mail: [email protected] am so grateful to have been given an opportunity to perform for such a magnifi cent university in such a beautiful venue with such great fans to support us. I think it really took spending a The North Tunnel Echo is a joint publication of the year away from home to realize everything that Memorial Stadium means to me and to really University of California Marching Band and the appreciate how integral the stadium is in uniting and spreading the California Spirit. Cal Band Alumni Association, Inc. © 2012 Cal Band Alumni Association, Inc. Echo Photos by David Durein, Hilary Ferejohn, Lloyd Amborn, and www.calband.berkeley.edu Seth Edlavitch. Additional Photo by Erika Gonzalez. “Deus Managrum Nostrum Damnet” Page 3 Cal Band Marching To (and From) Victory It is 7:15 am on Wednesday, streets were already fi lled with Nick Cotter, alto saxophone ’11 October 31st. The doors of eager fans, and the city itself Cesar Chavez open as over one was decked out in orange décor. hundred Cal Bandsmen pour into After retrieving instruments, the locker rooms of the Band the band headed to the foot of Rehearsal Hall.