Complex sentence: Graduating from high school, Creighton Prep School in 1959, McVaney went to Iowa State Teacher's College on a football scholarship he was on the dean's list and graduated with honors in 1964 with a BS in in mechanical engineering.
Split into simpler sentences: Graduating from high school, Creighton Prep School in 1959, McVaney went to Iowa State Teacher's College on a football scholarship. He was on the dean's list and graduated with honors in 1964 with a BS in mechanical engineering.