Davis briefly studied to become a speech therapist.
Melissa had decided to become a speech therapist.
She became a speech therapist, but she always wanted to be a writer, a poet.
"I became a speech pathologist because I needed one," he'd later say.
Despite her sterling training, Ms. Groop enrolled at Helsinki University intending to become a speech therapist.
Instead he became a speech major at Indiana University -- and an extracurricular student of bebop, which by then was in full force.
She became a speech therapist, then a lawyer — she hung a shingle and did wills and real estate closings — then a part-time law instructor, and finally a leading scholar of bankruptcy.
He became a speech teacher at John Adams upon his return and served as the public-address announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Yankees of the All-America Football Conference.
Long after Mrs. Harrison married, had two children and became a speech pathologist, she found the names of her birth parents in Brooklyn — Jenny Rubin and Mo Cohan — and learned that they were Jewish; her birth name was Mabel Rubin.
That grandfather eventually became a speech teacher, but it wasn't until Ms. Quinlan was an adult, living in Waterside Plaza, the huge apartment complex in the 20s just east of F.D.R. Drive, that she began to miss and think about the cadences she had grown up with.
