Sentence examples for before serving as a from inspiring English sources

Hill studied music at Yale University, earning a degree (1943) before serving as a transport pilot during World War II.

He made it to college and law school before serving as a prosecutor and then as the longest-tenured mayor of Stamford, Conn., the state's fourth-largest city.

The younger Mr. Clausen attended Carthage College in Illinois before serving as a flying meteorological officer in the Army Air Corps from 1943 to 1946.

After returning to Burundi, Ndadaye worked at a neurological and psychiatric centre before serving as a training manager with the Savings and Credit Cooperative.

Robert Hampton graduated from V.P.I. in 1941, and worked as a soil conservationist before serving as a naval officer during World War II.

He spent a year at Edinburgh University before serving as a pilot with RAF Coastal Command during the second world war.

After graduating from Fordham Law School, New York City (1931), Kaufman practiced law before serving as an assistant U.S. attorney.

He was briefly a reporter at a Pennsylvania newspaper before serving as an Army infantry officer.

Northwood studied art before serving as an apprentice in the large glass-manufacturing firm of W.H., B., and J. Richardson, at Wordsley (in the glassmaking district of Stourbridge).

He grew up in Easton, Mass., and attended Northeastern University in Boston before serving as an Air Force combat medic in the Vietnam War.

Cerf, who earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics at Stanford University, worked in the Silicon Valley computer industry before serving as an assistant professor at Stanford from 1972 to 1976.