President Lee Jeffrey told Bill Timpson that he has three minutes to do his classification talk. Bill responded that he was an academic and that they take at least three minutes to ask a question. Bill is a professor in the School of Education at CSU. After receiving his Bachelor’s degree in American History from Harvard U in 1968, he went on to teach high school in inner city Cleveland in a tough time that included riots and the deaths of important citizens. There he got interested in how schools and education can help people and whole communities out of the traumas and move forward in positive and constructive ways. Due to that experience he moved on to completed a doctoral degree in educational psychology at the U. of Wisconsin that would help him in following and improving that type of issue...
 

He came to Fort Collins and CSU in 1976 and has spent a lot of time overseas in Europe, China, Brazil, Nicaragua and Cuba as a National Kellogg Fellow. In 2006 he served as a Fulbright Senior Specialist on peace and reconciliation studies at the U. of Ulster’s UNESCO Centre in Northern Ireland and again in 2011 at the U. of Ngozi in Burundi, Africa. It is in Burundi that he would like to get Rotary involved in peace and reconciliation work. He would like to invite some of our club to visit Burundi with him to see that work and get involved in the peace and reconciliation efforts.

For fun, Bill likes the local theatre, music, ballet, and rides his bike as much as possible. He participated in several sports in high school and college and loves following sports, but due to knee problems, his participation is limited. Bill is married to Gailmarie. They have two daughters.