People and leadership
The organization reports a 1957 founding and 1958 first public appearance
Community and organization
Highlanders of Oklahoma City is classified as a marching, drum-corps, pipe-band, or parade organization. The packet keeps any civic, public-safety, or parent-organization connection limited to what the reviewed source states.
Reading the evidence
The evidence for Highlanders of Oklahoma City does not establish uninterrupted continuity across every named period, reorganization, alias, or possible successor. The packet therefore treats 1957–present claimed as the supported evidence span rather than a complete institutional chronology.
Questions for further research
For Highlanders of Oklahoma City: establish exact founding, reorganization, hiatus and ending dates; director succession; membership model; major activities; aliases or successors; and image provenance where not already documented.
Dated evidence in this record
- 1957 – 1958
Band’s history credits Cliff MacLean Hansen with founding it in 1957 and dates first public appearance to 1958.
- 2015
An official OU feature documents the Highlanders of Oklahoma City escorting the OU president into graduation ceremonies and performing at parades, funerals, and other events during the 2000–2015 period.