David Timm is First UWSP Recipient of the Academic Staff Community Service Award

The UWSP Academic Staff Community Service Award stresses the importance of service in building and contributing to a healthier campus and community environment. The first recipient is David Timm, of UWSP’s Information Technology.

Nominated by the University Library staff, Timm has been with UWSP for 24 years. During his tenure, he has not only served his university, but volunteered his time and services within the community-at-large.

Working with numerous University and community groups, Timm has been instrumental in the development of unique local Web databases, including the Portage County Historical Society Photo Collection Web Exhibit, Stevens Point Area Obituary Index, the UWSP Pointer Index, and the Stevens Point Journal Index.  These databases have garnered national attention, and Timm will join two other UWSP colleagues, Arne Arneson and Jan Vogt, in a presentation at the 1998 national Internet Librarian Conference in Monterey, California.

Timm has lent his considerable computer talents to the Portage County Public Library and the Stevens Point Area Senior High School (SPASH) science department.  For the Public Library, he has been involved in establishing Wisconsin's first wireless Internet library access access between UWSP and the main library building and the Plover branch.  For SPASH, Dave helped design and install the Science Department's computing lab.  In addition, he is charged with maintaining computers for Saint Bronislava’s Parish in Plover.

Timm has also been a member of the First Board of Directors of the Citizens Utility Board and served as secretary. He is past president of the Head Start Policy Council and Wisconsin State Employees Union Local 584. He has served as board member to CAP Services. Lastly, Timm has donated time to coaching boys’ Little League and girls’ softball.

A graduate of UWSP with a degree in economics, he is a native of Rhinelander.