My first encounter with Marion Reed, Gov. Dixy Lee Ray's sister

Dixy Lee Ray (1914–1994) was an American politician who served as the 17th governor of the state of Washington from 1977 to 1981.  I attended Dixy Lee Ray's inaugural party at the Inn of the Quay in Vancouver, WA along with my classmates from Evergreen State College.  As I passed the Governors party I knelt down beside her sister, Marion Reed.  (As the first resident of the Governor's Mansion without a First Lady, Ray hired her elder sister Marion R. Reid to serve as her official hostess).  I joined the group for quite some time, watched closely by the Secret Service.  Finally someone asked me how I knew Marion Reed.  I said that I didn't.  I was just telling her that her gown had drifted into the aisle and I was afraid it would get stepped on.  Many years later I met Marion Reed again at the Fox Island Museum.  But that encounter is a story for another time.