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The Scottish Highlanders Bagpipe Band At Iowa University Debuts
In 1934 Col. George F. Ney Dailey formed a Scottish Highlanders unit at the University of Iowa. Led by pipers taught by Claire Myers and later William Adamson, the all‑female band toured, wore kilts and busbies, and performed at basketball games the 1930s and 1940s, including a 1939 World’s Fair trip and postwar conventions.
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University of Iowa
Frederick W. Kent
New York City
George F.N. Dailey
William L. Adamson
Dailey
Nebraska
Adamson
Army
George Frederick Ney Dailey
Department of Military Science and Tactics
Iowa City
Toronto
Claire Myers
Council Bluffs
Canada
Myers
George Fieselman
Rudd
Robert Hampton
Karl Beck
Davenport
Leon Karel
Riverside
James Bowman
Downey
Scotland
Atlantic
Iowa Memorial Union
Boston
Iowa
Joseph Belehrad
Cedar Rapids
Frances
LeVonne Karel
Ruth House
Fort Crook
Neb
United States
Highlanders
Wisconsin
Gazette
Billy
The
the Gazette
Heather Adamson Stockman
Stockman
William Adamson
Scottish Highlanders