"The Retiring Terry Timms" - OK, maybe that is a bit of an inside joke from those who have known him over the years. I got along fine with Terry at CHQM, and he with me, but he was certainly anything but retiring when I knew him. Especially when it came to the on-air sound of CHQM, in terms of technical sound quality and operation. At that time, it wasn't his responsibility, but he felt, and management encouraged it, that he was just another set of ears trying to make the Q in CHQM stand for Quality.
From this morning's Broadcast Dialogue: "Terry Timms, after 52 years in radio, will retire at year’s end. Timms, now in ad sales with EZ Rock Salmon Arm, worked as the operations manager/production manager at CHQM Vancouver and was with CFMS Victoria before he and his wife moved to the Shuswap where he joined EZ Rock, then under Standard Radio ownership. In 2006, Timms was one of just three account execs within the Standard chain who earned a President’s Ring for knocking his budget out of the park."
In my year at QM, 1971-72, Terry did Production, and operated for Maurice Foisy on the fairly difficult mid-day show on CHQM-FM. For that show, Terry had to create tapes for most of the voice-tracked programming, "in real time", from the music aired on the program. Including the insertion of stop tones, timing and typing a table of contents for the 10 1/2" tape, with hand cues for Maurice, so he wouldn't do his extros until the tape had stopped recording.
The late John Zwolak was Terry's backup for all of that, spending the rest of his time as lead Operator for the voice-tracked programming during the daytime, as well as recording music tapes beyond what could be aired mid-days on QM-FM.