Graduating from his plastic saxophone to a real instrument in 1962, Bowie formed his first band at the age of 15.

Graduating from Christ Church, Oxford, as a Westminster scholar in 1860, he was entered at Lincoln's Inn but gave his attention chiefly to drama, producing Diamonds and Hearts at the Haymarket Theatre in 1867 ; this was followed by other light comedies.

Graduating from Milligan College in Tennessee, in 1950, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force.

Graduating in Space Quest V, he is promoted from a janitor to captain of the garbage scow SCS Eureka.

Graduating from Fargo Central High in 1952 and then graduating with a degree in music from Swarthmore College in 1957, he was the first student at Swarthmore and the only student in his class with such a degree.

Graduating from the Virginia Military Institute in 1877, Patton's father served as Los Angeles County, California, District Attorney and the first City Attorney for the city of Pasadena, California and the first mayor of San Marino, California.

Crossbar switching quickly spread to the rest of the world, replacing most earlier designs like the Strowger ( step-by-step ) and Panel systems in larger installations in the U. S. Graduating from entirely electromechanical control on introduction, they were gradually elaborated to have full electronic control and a variety of calling features including short-code and speed-dialing.

Graduating from Shaker Heights High School in 1943, he briefly attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where he was initiated into the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity.

Graduating from the prestigious Bronx High School of Science, Darin won a scholarship to attend Hunter College ; he dropped out in order to play small nightclubs around the city with a musical combo.

Graduating classes from BPHS usually range from 100 to 120 students.

* Plainsboro featured on the hit MTV series, True Life (" I'm Graduating from High School "), on which MTV took a look at the life of three seniors who were enrolled at High School North.

Graduating from St. Mark's in 1906, Fish went on to attend Harvard University.

Graduating from Edward R. Murrow High School in 1982, she attended Boston University for a year.

Graduating as valedictorian of the class of 1966 at West Point, he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford where he obtained a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and later graduated from the Command and General Staff College with a master's degree in military science.

Graduating in 1967, she went on to gain a master's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and another degree from Harvard University.

Graduating from Parris Island in 1942 as a 50 year old Private, Mr. Douglas was an inspiration to all.

Graduating from Fernando Callejo High School in, the highly-regarded five tool player was selected by the Kansas City Royals in the second round of that year's amateur baseball draft.

Graduating from Harvard with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1916, Conant served in the U. S. Army during World War I, working on the development of poison gases.

Graduating from school in 1895, he entered the Lausmann factory, a large engineering firm in the city of Tallinn ( then known as Reval ), as a blacksmith's apprentice.

Graduating from the Palanga Pre-Gymnasium in 1893, he passed his entrance examinations into the Samogitian Diocesan Seminary in Kaunas, with thoughts of becoming a Catholic priest, but various circumstances soon thereafter changed these plans, and he enrolled at Jelgava Gymnasium ( high school ) in Latvia.

Graduating from one year to the next is automatic, and pupils with deficient performance are given remedial tutoring.

Graduating with a bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 2003, she began post-graduate work in cybernetics, learning to construct positronic brains such that responses to given stimuli could be accurately predicted.

Graduating from Saint Francis Seminary in 1964, Glass attended the University of Evansville where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree double majoring in Drama and Literature.

On May 10, 2009, Dr Manfred Max-Neef received an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters and was Commencement Speaker to the 158th Graduating Class of Saint Francis University ( Loretto, Pennsylvania ).

Graduating from the University of North Alabama in 1980, Bennett briefly served as a staff artist at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Fayetteville ( NC ) Times, before serving as the editorial cartoonist for the St. Petersburg Times ( 1981 – 1994 ) and The Christian Science Monitor ( 1997 – 2007 ).

Graduating from Brown University in 1870 and from the Newton Theological Institution in 1874, he preached for one year and then was president of Denison University from 1875-79.

Graduating from Andover Theological Seminary in 1843, Salter and his companions — the so-called " Iowa Band " — went West to Iowa when it was only a territory to organize congregations, build churches and battle sin in all its infinite varieties.

Graduating from Middlebury College in 1823, he became tutor in the Columbian University, Washington D. C. from 1825 to 1827, professor of Greek, Latin, and German at Waterville College ( now Colby College ) from 1827 to 1833, professor of Biblical Literature and criticism in Hamilton Theological Institute ( New York ) from 1835 to 1851, and professor of Hebrew and of Biblical exegesis in Rochester Theological Seminary from 1851 to 1857.

Graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1984, he served in the US Army as an Air Defense Artillery officer, then became an entertainment reporter and film critic, including stints at News12 in Norwalk, Connecticut, the New York Daily News, Premiere, Movieline, Entertainment Weekly, Los Angeles, and talk radio shows at KMPC and KABC, where his tactical on-air bets with Martin Landau, Mel Gibson and James Cameron that they would win the Oscar resulted in them having to pay up at the Academy Awards ceremony by publicly thanking him in their acceptance speeches.

Graduating from the Space Academy, Kremmen went on to become the world's most fabulous man, as well as a captain for Star Corps.

Graduating from the United States Military Academy in 1856, Lee was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 2nd Cavalry Regiment ( later redesignated the 5th Cavalry Regiment ), which was commanded by Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston, and in which his uncle, Robert E. Lee, was lieutenant colonel.

Graduating from the Corning Academy in 1898, he enlisted in the Army and served in the Philippines during the Spanish American War.

Graduating in 1902, he stayed at the state university for the first year of law school but moved to Georgetown University, then to Yale, where he finished work on his law degree and won the praise of the dean.

Graduating in 1879, Wilson became a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.

Graduating BA in 1837 and MA in 1840, he became private tutor at Cambridge to the marquess of Sligo and the marquess of Lorne.

Graduating BA as 4th classic in 1832, he became a fellow of Trinity in 1834.

Graduating with first-class honors in 1773, Nathan became a teacher, first in East Haddam and later in New London.

Graduating in 1973, he went on to gain his doctorate in 1978 with a thesis on finite H-spaces, and remained at Oxford University as a mathematics lecturer until 1981, when he became a professional chess player.

Graduating BA in 1700 / 1, he became a fellow of Pembroke.

Graduating at Vienna in 1867 he became Privatdozent, and subsequently professor of classical philology ( 1873 ).

Graduating a year later, he became a contract player for the studio and made his first appearance in Lady General Hua Mulan.

Graduating at the top of her class, LaFlesche became the first Native American woman doctor in the United States.

Graduating in 1966 with a degree in Anthropology and Sociology, Sand followed Leary and Alpert to Millbrook and became a guide to the psychedelic realm for many of the people who came to Millbrook.