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.
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