After graduation, Lorraine was offered a job at Seattle Pacific College as an instructor, and she began work in the fall of 1946. Her first responsibility was to open up the new sewing section in the Home Economics department. She was a very young professor. Since all of her colleagues were at least 20 years older than she was, she found herself hanging out with the students, who were more her age.
	Ray was a senior at SPC, pictured here getting into some sort of trouble. He was class president, and loved to have a good time.
It wasn't long before Ray, on one of his social calls on campus, happened to be in this building, Tiffany Hall, and spotted Lorraine in the lobby. It wasn't long after that that Ray managed to finagle his way into her sights. At first, he and his buddies muscled their way over to Lorraine's table at the ice cream parlor, where Lorraine and her girlfriends were hanging out. He did this a few times before he heard that Lorraine needed some help moving dishes in the Home Ec department, and he quickly volunteered himself and a friend.
Lorraine was beginning to pick up on something by now, so it was no surprise to her that Ray engineered a date with her in December of 1946 by inviting some mutual friends of theirs to church in Bremerton, and then suggesting that they ask Lorraine if she'd like to go.
	Well, Lorraine went on that date, which ended up being an all-day event. It ended with Ray and Lorraine attending Sunday night church together in Fremont, a neighborhood not far from the SPC campus. As they walked home together in the newly falling snow, there might have been an inkling in their hearts that this date would forever change the course of their young lives. Lorraine began to be seen with Ray more and more around campus, which was quite controversial since Lorraine was a teacher, and Ray was, after all, a student! But that just had to be together.
Ray wrote to Lorraine's parents in South Dakota, asking for her hand in marriage. Lorraine's father was hesitant at first, but after learning that Ray was a Christian and planning on going into the ministry, he gave his blessing. Ray and Lorraine announced their engagement on Valentine's Day, 1947.
	And so, Ray and Lorraine were married on June 28, 1947, in the Watertown Wesleyan Methodist Church in South Dakota. It was a simple, yet elegant wedding. Lorraine's wedding dress was beautiful. Ray and his mother had taken the bus from Tacoma, Washington, to Watertown, South Dakota, for the wedding. His sister, Ellen, travelled with Lorraine, who had left earlier with friends who were travelling east. Ray's father was unable to go since he couldn't get away from work. Lorraine kept both her wedding dress and herself in such great condition that she was able to wear the very same dress at her 50th wedding anniversary, along with the Elgin wristwatch that Ray had given her as a wedding gift.
In the wedding party, from left to right, were Derwood Rogge, Lorraine's cousin; Luther Crawford, Lorraine's brother-in-law (Lillian's husband); best man Byron Jacobson, Ray's friend from college; Ray and Lorraine; matron-of-honor Lillian Johnson Crawford, Lorraine's sister; Ellen Streutker, Ray's sister; Geraldine Gifford, Lorraine's friend from college; and flower girl Mary Hunter, Lorraine's young cousin.