Add to ORKGBismarck Junior College Bagpipe Band 1955. P. Warming, K. Upgren, H. Kepler, D. Swenson, A. Wolff, E. Ely,D. Birch, J. Payseno, V. Barrett, G. Bruhjell. "One of BSC’s most memorable and unique activities – The Bagpipe Band – was born from an offhand comment by a music teacher. After WWII, some Bismarck High School (BHS) and Bismarck Junior College faculty were talking in the boardroom at BHS about how to offer something for girls. Clarion Larson had heard a story about a women’s bagpipe band at the University of Iowa. Dean Sidney J. Lee embraced the idea with great enthusiasm not shared by Larson, who nonetheless became the founder and first director of the BJC Bagpipe Band in 1948." Bismarck State College Connections. 17.2. August 2013. p...