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Farnham Castle Dances 1997-2004
May Sloan
2nd March 1934 to 22nd July 2014
May Sloan was a long-term member of the club, and served as Chairman from 2005 to 2014. She had led a very active life, but died unexpectedly at home late on Tuesday 22nd July 2014. She had lived with Parkinson's for a number of years but we knew nothing that would result in her sudden death.
May started her dancing career at age 10. In her youth, she was a superb highland dancer. In the 1940s and 1950s she was Argyllshire champion three times, and Western Isles champion three times in succession. She came fourth in the World Juvenile Championships and, aged 18, she came third in the Adult World Championships.
She was also a beautiful country dancer and was a member of the demonstration teams wherever she lived - in Dunoon, Castle Douglas and then Carlisle. She gained her Full Teaching Certificate in 1965. Living in Dunblane in the 1980s she dances at the Dunblane Hydro with Jim McLeod and his band. Her final move in 1986 to Hampshire brought her to the BHS Border Branch area where she danced competitively as part of the Badenoch dancers (directed by Bruce Frazer) and joined the branch committee.
May featured in the film 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' with many other members of our branch. She became branch chairman in 2004 and its president in 2011. In 2009 she received a branch award in recognition of her outstanding services to Scottish Country Dancing in our area.
She also had an active life in her local community and church, playing short-mat bowls and badminton as well as 'helping the elderly'. We shall remember May as an elegant dancer with a youthful and indomitable spirit. She never let difficulties with Parkinson's stop her enjoying life. She is sadly missed.
May Sloan was a long-term member of the club, and served as Chairman from 2005 to 2014. She had led a very active life, but died unexpectedly at home late on Tuesday 22nd July 2014. She had lived with Parkinson's for a number of years but we knew nothing that would result in her sudden death.
May started her dancing career at age 10. In her youth, she was a superb highland dancer. In the 1940s and 1950s she was Argyllshire champion three times, and Western Isles champion three times in succession. She came fourth in the World Juvenile Championships and, aged 18, she came third in the Adult World Championships.
She was also a beautiful country dancer and was a member of the demonstration teams wherever she lived - in Dunoon, Castle Douglas and then Carlisle. She gained her Full Teaching Certificate in 1965. Living in Dunblane in the 1980s she dances at the Dunblane Hydro with Jim McLeod and his band. Her final move in 1986 to Hampshire brought her to the BHS Border Branch area where she danced competitively as part of the Badenoch dancers (directed by Bruce Frazer) and joined the branch committee.
May featured in the film 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' with many other members of our branch. She became branch chairman in 2004 and its president in 2011. In 2009 she received a branch award in recognition of her outstanding services to Scottish Country Dancing in our area.
She also had an active life in her local community and church, playing short-mat bowls and badminton as well as 'helping the elderly'. We shall remember May as an elegant dancer with a youthful and indomitable spirit. She never let difficulties with Parkinson's stop her enjoying life. She is sadly missed.
May at the Cowal Highland Games 1949
May with the Ballimore Shield
The Castle Douglas Group 1962
The Carlisle team at the Edinburgh Festival 1970
Spotlight on Dance, Royal Albert Hall 1995 (photograph taken at Cecil Sharpe House)
The May Sloan Memorial Bench, depicted below, was presented in respect of May's work with a local care group
60th Anniversary Party
