Wiilam A. Zimmerman(1915-1999) was born in Canada and raised in Portland, Oregon. He attended Roosevelt High School and graduated University of Oregon (1939). He soon joined the Business Office of the University of Oregon Medical School (UOMS) as Assistant Manager under Ralf Couch (1940). This was the start of a forty-year career. He advanced to take over Couch's postion as Business Manager; Assistant Dean of Business Affairs (1965); Dean, Business Affairs (1968); and retired as Director of Development, University of Oregon Health Sciences Center (UOHSC) in 1980.
From the guide to the Guide to the William Zimmerman Collection, 1937-1980, (Oregon Health & Science University Historical Collections & Archives)