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Ronnell Wilson, who attended Milton Academy through the ABC (A Better Chance) program, went on to graduate from Yale University and Yale Law School. He is an assistant U. S. Attorney General working out of Newark, New Jersey.<\/span><\/p>\nAt Milton, I found myself wondering why I was given this opportunity while other smart kids had to stay home and deal with the perils of living there. My sense of guilt for being at Milton got so severe that I packed my suitcase, called my mom and told her I was coming home. She asked, \u201cWhy?\u201d I didn\u2019t tell her I was feeling homesick, or felt guilty. Instead, in my adolescent confusion and indignation, I told her that I felt disconnected from the \u201creal world,\u201d and no longer had any idea of what was going on back in North St. Louis. My mom simply said, \u201cIf you want to know what\u2019s happening in the real world, then buy a newspaper.\u201d She hung up the phone, I unpacked, and figured that I had to give Milton a go. Turning to my friends, I began the long, difficult process of learning to open up and expand.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 from \u201cThe Support to Fly,\u201d by Cathleen Everett, [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_portfolio admin_label=”Alumni” fullwidth=”off” posts_number=”18″ show_categories=”off” show_pagination=”off” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.19.18″ hover_overlay_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.9)” \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″][et_pb_sidebar orientation=”right” area=”sidebar-1″ background_layout=”light” show_border=”on” \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”3_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Title” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”] Ronnell Wilson ’93 [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”] Ronnell Wilson, who attended Milton Academy through the ABC (A Better Chance) program, went on to graduate from Yale University and Yale Law School. He is an assistant U. S. Attorney General working out of Newark, New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"project_category":[],"project_tag":[],"class_list":["post-729","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometomilton.com\/congratulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometomilton.com\/congratulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometomilton.com\/congratulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometomilton.com\/congratulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometomilton.com\/congratulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometomilton.com\/congratulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219,"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometomilton.com\/congratulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/729\/revisions\/1219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometomilton.com\/congratulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometomilton.com\/congratulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometomilton.com\/congratulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometomilton.com\/congratulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_tag?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMilton Magazine<\/em>, Spring 2012<\/p>\n