Died 5-JAN-2017

Activated:

Spring 1962

Class Year:

1965

Major:

History

 

 

Military service:

US Army, Armed Forces Radio

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Details about Wally

June 2017

Wally Zimmerman '65 of Hendersonville, TN, died 5-Jan-2017. At Ripon he studied history and worked at the campus radio station, and at radio stations in Chicago his senior year. In the Army he worked for Armed Services Radio and Television. He worked in network radio in Chicago; was a reporter and news director in Green Bay, WI; several positions, including executive producer and news director at KHON in Hawaii; head of the ABC affiliate in Detroit; vice-president of news at KITV in Hawaii; director of communications for the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii; and senior vice-president of client services at Bright Light Marketing in Hawaii. Survivors include his wife, Jolie; and one daughter.

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Information about Wally's life has been collected from

• Ripon College Alumni Office, Ripon College, Ripon, WI
• The Crimson, the Ripon College annual yearbook, Ripon College, Ripon, WI

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