Noted: “I remember on a couple of occasions when he would return to Wisconsin, he would play in the alumni band during one of the football games. And I knew that because one of my duties was I worked security with (UW Band Director) Mike Leckrone at the football games,” Mahoney said. The director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison marching band said he remembers Baitinger as a young man dedicated to his craft. “We get to know the kids all pretty well, but Tom was one of those kids that was a doer, he was involved in everything. He was in the band at some great times,” Leckrone said. Leckrone said Baitinger was part of UW-Madison?s historic “100-year band” in the mid-1980s and was one of the first to march at a Badgers bowl game.
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