It was still the season for weddings.  Mary Barelli Gallagher became engaged almost as if it was fate, just as her career had been.  She met her husband, Ray Gallagher, at the Statler Hotel on August 31, 1954 at the time of the National Convention of the American Legion.  Mary wanted to stay in her nice cool apartment that day, but her office friends Katie Griffin and Eleanor Elhajj forced her to go with them to the Statler Hotel.