Golden J. Zenon Jr.

[1][2][3] He was active in Nebraska and was a principal of Zenon–Beringer & Associates (ZBA), and later Zenon Beringer Mabrey Partners.

[4][5][6] Golden J. Zenon Jr. was born on March 13, 1929, in Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, to an African American family.

[1][4] He attended a segregated elementary school but around age 10 he had to drop out due to the outbreak of World War II, and because his dad needed help on the farm after his two older brothers were serving in the U.S.

[4] In 1966, the Swanson Branch Library in Omaha was designed by the Leo A. Daly staff architects Zenon and William Larson.

[9] In 1973, Zenon designed the Willis A. and Janet S. Strauss Performing Arts Center for the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO) School of Music.