Complex sentence: Called "Tommy" by her husband, whom she married in May 1939, Rhea Workman graduated from Winthrop College and the University of South Carolina and was an English professor from 1957 to 1977 at Columbia College in Columbia.
Split into simpler sentences: Called "Tommy" by her husband, whom she married in May 1939, Rhea Workman was a graduate of Winthrop College and the University of South Carolina. She was an English professor from 1957 to 1977 at Columbia College in Columbia.