After 29 years in the classroom, Julie Gray retired May 31 from teaching in the same school district where she graduated as a high school student and where she spent her entire career.A few days later on June 2, she and her husband, Danny, celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary by going to Lubbock for dinner.Gray married after earning her high school diploma from Dawson High School in 1979.“I got married right out of high school. I thought that’s what you were suppose to do. I thought differently when my daughter graduated,” Gray said.Gray lived in Lamesa until she was a ...