Pat and Margaret talk about Burton Hall

Margaret, Class of 1958: That’s in a room in Burton Hall, and we were the first full class to come and live in the new residence.

Interviewer: Oh!

Margaret: And, uh, the, the, Burtons… I can’t remember, he was, he, the head of the company. Wasn’t that Simpsons or Eatons?

Interviewer: Simpsons.

Pat, Class of 1958: Yes.

Margaret: And-

Pat: Yes, yes.

Margaret: -you know all that history. So-

Pat: The class before us-

Margaret: Yeah.

Pat: -so the class of fifty-seven, had been in houses. And you’ll see lots in the history of the houses along, um, Grosvenor. And they moved in, too, but we were the first that started-

Margaret: We were-

Pat: -there-

Margaret: Yeah.

Pat: -and completed our three years.

Margaret: So the, sort of the announcement of the residence being officially opened was our class and we had, as I remember, quite a few little things furnished by Simpsons. Like, nice soaps in the bathroom. It, oh, it lasted for about two weeks and then we didn’t see any more-

Pat: [Laughing.] That’s right.

Margaret: -of that stuff, but we had a few little treats to start off with. I think they wanted to make it look like they’d done well for us.