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...University's most-loved and best-connected dining hall superintendents, Harriet DePinto, retires this year amidst a flood of 350 messages from alumni, such as Senators Edward M. Kennedy '54 and Robert F. Kennedy...
...press DePinto too hard to get him back into the uniform which he has worn since 1936, when at the age of 12, Bill Tabler, then the drum major for the Band, saw him doing figure eights with a piece of pipe and promptly decided to teach him the fine art of twirling...
During the next years the Band used him mainly as a mascot, along with its regular twirlers, but after the war, Bill Reinhart, then drum major for the Band, accosted DePinto as he was walking across the Square one day, and "pressured" him into accepting the position of full-time twirler. From 1946 until 1954, when he went into his retirement, DePinto twirled at every home game and most of the away games...
Last season, the Band approached DePinto and induced him to give up his retirement for the Yale game, with the argument that all the old Band grads came back for this game...
...mother says that he will never retire because he loves the Band too much, but DePinto himself, outwardly less of the sentimentalist, says, "Heck, if I'm going to sit there and watch, I might as well be on the field with them...