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Deirdre MacCuish Bark

RE: History question: were SCD actually taught to girl guides

Feb. 13, 2006, 3:07 a.m. (Message 44226, in reply to message 44224)

I learned to do Scottish Country Dancing through the Girl Guide movement in
Inverness, Scotland between 1958 and 1962.   We used to enter the Inverness
Music Festival.  The entire Guide Company also had to sing in Gaelic in the
music festival.

 At school in Inverness and elsewhere in Scotland, I only had what is now
described as Ceilidh dancing. However I do not remember being told anything
about the RSCDS, and only knew about Mrs Stewart's involvement with the
Scottish Guides from the Manual.

Deirdre MacCuish Bark
Ontario, Canada