Meet the Professor
Professor's father instills interest in the Holocaust
Tara Marinaro
Issue date: 9/27/07 Section: News
Zimmerman moved to College of San Mateo in 1974 where she taught public speaking and interpersonal communication. During her first semester she gave birth to a baby girl Rebecca. Three years later came Joshua, and two years following, Leah. The '70s were a busy time for the Zimmerman couple.
After receiving her Ed.D. at USF, Zimmerman moved south down the peninsula to Notre Dame. The convenience in location and the small size of the school made Notre Dame an excellent change for her, plus it did not hurt that she would be the chair of the Communication Department. She said she was ready for a more personal approach to education where she could be influential in a different way as the chair of the department.
1994 was her first year at Notre Dame. She said she was an early pusher of technology here. She had to beg for an email account which at the time nobody had.
Being so knowledgeable about the Holocaust and the Jewish religion made Zimmerman the perfect candidate to help teach the new Holocaust class Notre Dame was trying to start. Zimmerman's interest in the Holocaust began with her father's connection to Dr. Mengele who was a Nazi doctor that performed brutal inhumane experiments on twins. Her father found documentary evidence that proved the alleged bones of Dr. Mengele were not him, after his body was supposedly found near Sao Paolo, Brazil. Many Nazi's fled there at the end of WWII.
Zimmerman said at this point in her life she was on speaking terms with more priests than rabbis, which was strange since her religion has always been strictly Jewish. She said meeting Father Wayne Maro (chaplain at Notre Dame) was the reason the Holocaust class began in the first place. At first when she was told to meet Father Wayne she thought, "Great! Just what I need, to meet another priest."
After the obligatory clichés when they met for the first time, he told Zimmerman how big of an impression the Holocaust museum had on him and he needed her help to start this new class at Notre Dame. The Holocaust class is still offered today, taught by Zimmerman.
After receiving her Ed.D. at USF, Zimmerman moved south down the peninsula to Notre Dame. The convenience in location and the small size of the school made Notre Dame an excellent change for her, plus it did not hurt that she would be the chair of the Communication Department. She said she was ready for a more personal approach to education where she could be influential in a different way as the chair of the department.
1994 was her first year at Notre Dame. She said she was an early pusher of technology here. She had to beg for an email account which at the time nobody had.
Being so knowledgeable about the Holocaust and the Jewish religion made Zimmerman the perfect candidate to help teach the new Holocaust class Notre Dame was trying to start. Zimmerman's interest in the Holocaust began with her father's connection to Dr. Mengele who was a Nazi doctor that performed brutal inhumane experiments on twins. Her father found documentary evidence that proved the alleged bones of Dr. Mengele were not him, after his body was supposedly found near Sao Paolo, Brazil. Many Nazi's fled there at the end of WWII.
Zimmerman said at this point in her life she was on speaking terms with more priests than rabbis, which was strange since her religion has always been strictly Jewish. She said meeting Father Wayne Maro (chaplain at Notre Dame) was the reason the Holocaust class began in the first place. At first when she was told to meet Father Wayne she thought, "Great! Just what I need, to meet another priest."
After the obligatory clichés when they met for the first time, he told Zimmerman how big of an impression the Holocaust museum had on him and he needed her help to start this new class at Notre Dame. The Holocaust class is still offered today, taught by Zimmerman.
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George Heller
posted 4/13/08 @ 9:20 PM PST
How wonderful to find on the Internet a story of a lifetime of dedication to effective communications and to making peace among people. Teaching the story of the Holocaust with a goal that perhaps we can avoid repeating the mistakes of the past?. (Continued…)
Al
posted 5/26/09 @ 7:33 PM PST
This lady is a holocast educator, yet she loves Obama and all things of the radical left. If she cared about Jews and the Holocaust, she's write about the Iranian president who is the next Hitler, rather than castigating Pres. (Continued…)
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