ABOUT NSU MARCHING WOLVES
Performing at all home
football games, annual Gypsy Day Parade,
regional marching band festivals, and
professional football games including Minnesota
Vikings, Denver Broncos, and Winnipeg Blue
Bombers the NSU Marching Wolves have enjoyed a
long and distinguished tradition of excellence
at the regional and national level. In recent
years the band has been recognized at the
national level. In November 2004 the NSU
Marching Wolves were selected as the lone
representative from South Dakota and one of only
eight collegiate marching bands in the nation to
appear in the January 2005 Presidential
Inaugural Parade in Washington D.C. In addition
in November 2006, the NSU Marching Wolves
represented South Dakota in the 2006
commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the
bombing of Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii.
With over 66 years of tradition, the marching
band was organized by Harvey Moen in 1941 and
has remained an important ambassador for the
Northern State University for the past six
decades. Subsequent directors of the Marching
Wolves include: Dr. Darwin Walker, John Lyon,
Phillip Weinacht, Lonn Sweet, Dennis Dafoe,
Eugene Perry, Dr. Alan LaFave, David Stern, and
Dr. Grant Manhart. Currently the NSU Marching
Wolves are under the direction of Dr. Boyd
Perkins with assistants Dr. Grant Manhart, and
professor of percussion Dr. Terry Beckler.