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Student speaker Donielle Reneau-Zynski challenged fellow graduates to dedicate themselves to lifelong learning in her speech at Milwaukee Area Technical College's Winter Commencement, Dec. 20 at the U.S. Cellular Arena. Quoting Newton D. Baker, secretary of war under President Woodrow Wilson, Reneau-Zynski said that anyone "who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after." Her advice: "It's important to keep investing in your personal development and growth. Remember, there's always something more we can learn."
Reneau-Zynski takes those words to heart. Graduating with an associate degree from the Paralegal program, her immediate plans are to earn a bachelor’s degree, mostly likely in an accelerated pre-law program at Marquette University. From there, she intends to continue on to law school. Reneau-Zynski currently works as a real estate broker and plans to practice real estate law. |
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Love of the Law
Reneau-Zynski hopes to go into partnership with her brother, Marcel Reneau, a graduate of Marquette Law School. Love of the law is in her genes, she says. Her grandfather, Andrew Reneau, was the first African American to run for a Milwaukee County judicial post and later accepted an appointment to serve as the family court commissioner for Milwaukee County.
"My grandfather served the community with distinction for nearly 50 years as an attorney, judge and court commissioner," she says. "I, too, have that same desire to serve the community in a legal capacity. MATC is helping me achieve this objective by providing a starting point, a springboard for my educational goals. MATC has made it possible to get started in the right direction, providing a foundation on which to build a legal career as an attorney."
Before attending MATC, Reneau-Zynski studied business management at Cardinal Stritch University. She later enrolled in a radiography program at Gateway Technical College, but neither business nor radiography led to her true calling. Eventually, she realized she wanted to be an attorney and enrolled in MATC's Paralegal program. "I know I will continue until I become a lawyer," she says. "It's a matter of personal satisfaction. I wouldn’t feel complete until that goal was finished."
Once she reaches that goal, she’s determined to continue her lifelong learning. She advised the Commencement audience, "Remember, there’s always something new, something more that we can learn. If you never stop learning, you never stop seeing the possibilities. Your possibilities.
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