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William J. Zima

Thousand Oaks, California

1922 - 2012

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William J. Zima, longtime Iowa journalist and journalism educator, died Jan. 20, 2012, at the Weiss Residential Care Facility in Thousand Oaks where he had been living the last few years. He was 89. Bill, as he was known to colleagues and thousands of journalism students, worked 19 years at...

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I took Prof. Zima's class in 1990, and I remember it well. He was great fun to talk to, had great stories, and could laugh at himself, particularly when trying to utilize the computers that then were just entering the classroom. One day in class, he was talking about using "MacWrite", an early word-processing program, except that he kept calling it "McNuggets". He laughed as hard as we did. He was one of my favorite profs at the J-School.