Gwen and Heather talk about residence rules

Gwen, Class of 1970: The only thing I think, um, I would add is that our residence life, I mean, our nursing school, our nursing education, nursing school, was really, really important, obviously to make us into the nurses that we, we became. But I think it was also that residence experience, um, it was really quite unique. And, uh, you know, it was that communal living. And you laughed, cried, um, you know, through the good, the bad, and the ugly, you know […]

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Heather, Class of 1970: There was two rooms in our floor that the girls that were on call to the O.R., the nurses on call to the O.R. were allowed to sleep in. Now, Women’s College didn’t have a lot of emergency things in the middle of the night, but there was the odd time-

Gwen: Especially the-

Heather: So we were-

Gwen: Especially the, uh-

Heather: We were supposed to be, um, quiet. [Laughs].

Gwen: Quieter.

Heather: Considerate of these girls that were probably trying to sleep. I don’t know that we were. [Laughs.]

Gwen: We weren’t, we weren’t bad. But now and again, hey, you let off steam, and, um, uh, but yeah, so, um, no alcohol was supposed to be-

Heather: No.

Gwen: -allowed. And, um-

Heather: [Laughs.]

Gwen: No, you could smoke. You could have cigarettes.

Heather: Yeah.

Gwen: Yeah, you could smoke.

Heather: Yes, I smoked.

Gwen: Um, but, uh, no alcohol in your, on the, on the residence floors. No young men. And we did have the hours that we were supposed to be, and you had to sign in and out.

Heather: Yeah.

Gwen: Yeah, when you were … out of the residence.

Interviewer: And you both lived in Burton Hall?

Heather: Mhm.

Gwen: Mhm.

Heather: Yes.

Gwen: Fifth floor.