Diesel Progress - EGSA 2011

Member Recognition
The Timmler Award

EGSA Programs & Services

The Timmler Award is given annually to honor an individual for an outstanding job as committee chairman. The “Outstanding
Committee Chair” award was first awarded in 1970. The award was renamed for William Timmler, Jr. after his death from
cancer in the late 1970s.

William (Bill) Timmler was V.P. of Marketing for Lima Electric Co. of Lima, OH. Lima was a subsidiary of Condec Corp. of Greenwich, CT. Bill received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin. Prior to his work at Lima, he worked for Louis Allis as an Electrical Engineer. Bill was very active in EGSA. He served on the Marketing Committee and chaired the Activities Committee (1973-74). He also served as a Director (1972-74), Secretary-Treasurer (1974-75), Vice President (1975-76) and President (1976-77). He was honored with the Carpenter Award in 1979.

2010 EGSA President Ron Hartzel presented Joe Hafich of Emergency
Systems Service Company with the annual William Timmler Award in
recognition of his long, outstanding work as Chairman of the Distributor/
Dealer Committee.

to his family-owned company’s longtime membership in the Association,” said Hartzel. “Joe is also a tireless promoter of EGSA, its services and its benefits. He has spent most of the past decade chairing the Distributor/ Dealer Committee and he has served on the Board of Directors twice.” , “Joe Hafich has spent the better part of his life as a part of EGSA thanks