Martin C. Coy

Martin C. Coy, M.A., N.C.C.
Biography

Martin C. Coy started working when he was 14-years-old (if you don't count all of the newspaper carrier routes he had prior to that).
Despite having Multiple Sclerosis since 1965 (diagnosed when he was 21-years-old), he spent his professional career in two fields: 20 years in the print and broadcast media and another 20 years in the counseling and education fields. In 2006, Marty decided it was finally time to take a rest and retired for a second time.
Since he's been retired, he wrote and had a book published in 2007. His book, NOT ALL SO TALL TALES, published by Xlibris (a subsidiary of Random House) is available for purchase online from his publisher at Xlibris.com.
In 2010, following an intensive 2-day training session (Oct. 15-16, 2010), he became a Certified Lay Speaker for the United Methodist Church and was officially consecrated as a United Methodist Church Certified Lay Speaker on Sun., May 15, 2011.
In 2008, he attended the United Methodist Church's Basic Lay Speaking Course held by the Frederick, MD, District of the United Methodist Church. He finished and passed the class on March 8, 2008 and was officially consecrated as a United Methodist Church Local Lay Speaker on Sun., June 8, 2008. He spends time in the pulpit on an as needed basis.
He is currently also working on writing his second book as well as a play.
Marty, who graduated with his bachelors degree in Journalism (with two minors -- English and Psychology) from West Virginia University in 1968 (within three years after returning from his Army service), worked over twenty years in the print and broadcast medias. He worked on five daily newspapers in the news and editorial and advertising departments in four different states: Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Maryland. He had his own radio show on WKPA in Pennsylvania; served as a Public Relations and Advertising Specialist in New York City; served as a lobbyist for veterans in Washington, DC; was appointed (at age 26) as the National Public Relations Director of the AMVETS (one of the nation's five largest veterans organizations) in Washington, DC; worked as the Director of Information for the West Virginia State Department of Commerce's Planning and Research Division; and, served as an Employment Counselor with the Maryland State Department of Economic and Employment Development. He also had a career in public affairs as a publications officer in the U.S. Federal Civilian Service working for the U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institute of Mental Health.
Marty graduated from New Kensington High School, New Kensington, PA in 1961. In his junior high and senior high school years, he had such a keen interest in drama that he worked 3 seasons in summer theatre at the Sherwood Forest Theatre, New Kensington, PA, while at the same time having appeared in a myriad of local and high school theatre productions. At his high school graduation, Marty was awarded the New Kensington Civic Theatre Award for his career in acting and technical theatre work. Since those past theatre days, Marty has been fortunate enough to appear on stage with his son, Chris, in productions of "Big River" and "A Christmas Carol" in 1999 and "Grease" in 2000.
Marty attended a semester of college the fall of 1961 at Kent State University, Kent, OH, and then entered active duty with the U.S. Army in January of 1962. Following BCT, AIT and specialized training with the U.S. Army's Adjutant General's School of Personnel Administration (TAGSUSA), his first assignment was as a member of the permanent party cadre at the U.S. Army Infantry Training Center, Ft. Polk, LA. He was then assigned to the 10th Air Transport Brigade of the 11th Air Assault Division, Ft. Benning, GA with unofficial "side work" in Vietnam prior to that division becoming the 1st Cavalry Division and officially transferred to Vietnam in late 1965.
Marty had to medically retire from the Federal Civilian Service where he was a Publications Officer with the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare's Office of Education (now known as the U.S. Department of Education) in 1979. During his Federal career, he provided speech materials for three U.S. Presidents: President Nixon, President Ford and President Carter.
Wanting to keep busy after that retirement, Marty sought out and pursued his Masters Degree in Psychology from Hood College in May 1988. He has also completed postgraduate studies in counseling at Western Maryland College in 1992 while also working in several part time positions. As a result, he served as a substitute teacher for the Frederick County Public School System (FCPSS) for twenty years (1980-2000), where he provided instruction in grades K-12. He also served as an ABE (Adult Basic Education)/GED (General Equivalency Diploma) and ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) Instructor with the FCPSS.
He taught employment assistance classes on and off in the early 1990s at Ft. Detrick while he was serving as an Instructor/Counselor with the Frederick County Job Training Agency (JTA) and also served as a FAST Class Substitute Teacher (also in the early 1990s) in Ft. Detrick's Training and Education Center. Marty's first actual contractual experience at Ft. Detrick was as a contract School Age Computer Lab/Homework Center Teacher in the Youth Services Program where he worked from October 11, 1995 to June 17, 1996.
Then, in October of 1998, Marty accepted a contractual position as an Employment Assistance Program Counselor with the Program Manager (one of his ex-students from his JTA Classes in the 1990s) for the Army Community Services's (ACS) Employment Readiness and Transition Assistance Program (ERTAP). He worked for ERTAP until April of 2000 when he accepted a contract position as an Education Counselor with the Fort Detrick Center for Training and Education Excellence (DCTEE).
Since his Graduate school graduation, Marty found time to work in four clinical settings, to include: the Frederick County Mental Health Department's Substance Abuse Services Program, the Frederick County Vietnam Era Veterans Program, Crossroads Treatment Center, and Mountain Manor Treatment Centers. He served as a Psychotherapist, an Addictions Counselor, and a Professionally Certified Counselor in all clinical settings.
In addition to serving as an on-call, contract counselor to several private and State and Federal government agencies and organizations (since 1986), while at the same time maintaining his own small private practice (since 1990), Marty holds professional membership in the American Counseling Association, the Association for Specialists in Group Work, the Frederick County Mental Health Association, and the Frederick Therapists Network. Marty is a Board Certified Counselor by the National Board for Certified Counselors, Inc., Certification Number 31911 and an MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) Licensee for Consulting Psychologists Press, Inc., License No. 25-2090.
He was an Adjunct Faculty member at Frederick Community College, Frederick, MD from June 1997 to May 1999 and an Adjunct Faculty member of the Graduate School, USDA, Washington, DC, from October 2000 to September 2003.
During all of this time, Marty also pursued work as a freelance creative writer being published in newspapers and magazines throughout the United States. In addition, he has also worked as a freelance Writer/Editor serving such clients as the U.S. Jaycees (in both WV and MD); the Frederick (MD) Symphonic Band; the Frederick (MD) Regional Youth Orchestra; the Carroll Manor Elementary School Concerned Parents Committee in Adamstown, MD; the Citizens for the Preservation of Southern Frederick County, Inc.; Fervency Lodge #200, A.F.&A.M.; and, the Disabled Citizens of Frederick County United, Inc.
Born in Wadsworth, OH, he met his wife, Patricia, while both were serving in the U.S. Federal Civilian Service. They were married on Sept. 3, 1976. He is the father of a grown daughter, Amanda (from a prior marriage); a grown son, Christopher; and the grandfather of two.
A disabled U.S. Army Vietnam veteran, Marty is interested in community affairs and belongs to a variety of local, state, national, civic, and professional associations, fraternities, and organizations.

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