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Ruddenklau, Edith

 Person

Interviewer with the Southland Oral History Project

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WILSON, Winifred May interviewed by Edith Ruddenklau

 Record Group — Box: 45
Identifier: H0500
Overview In this interview, May talks about how she first got involved with Highland Dancing at the age of 10 through dancing with the Mataura Kilties Pipe Band. She was taught by Stella Glennie. May moved to Dunedin to be taught by William Kilgour. She took part in a dance tour of Central Otago. In the early 1920s, when men dominated the Highland dancing world, May won the first combined men’s and women’s over-18 championship. In 1924 she travelled to Scotland where she won both the Highland fling and...
Dates: 1994