Complex sentence: In 1978 he graduated from Yale College, where he was a resident of Silliman College and was Speaker of the Yale Political Union, and took off for Togo, in western Africa, to serve in the Peace Corps.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1978 he graduated from Yale College, where he was a resident of Silliman College and was Speaker of the Yale Political Union. After graduation he took off for Togo, in western Africa, to serve in the Peace Corps.