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Dr. David L. McCoy - Twentieth Century
Renaissance Man and “Real McCoy”
“You can take the boy out of the country,
but you can’t take the country out of the boy.”
David Lee McCoy, “redneck Riverbottom Okie” to college
professor phenomenon, has indeed lived a full, diverse, colorful,
rich and rewarding life. He is a proud, proven and
living example of this claim. Read on.
Dr. McCoy is very proud of his rural Southeastern Oklahoma,
simple, “Little Appalachia redneck” farm boy roots.
“Most of it, at least,” he will add. The eldest of
six children, born to sixteen and seventeen year-old teenage
parents, Dr. McCoy learned the requirement and value of individual
responsibility, a strong work ethic, teamwork and an appreciation
of the simple things in life. Plowing with a mule-drawn
plow, picking cotton and hoeing corn -- up and down endless
rows of growing cotton and corn; bailing hay; capturing and
selling wild hogs; cutting logs; breaking horses; “bucking”
slabs for rural sawmills; picking peaches; cutting and hauling
pulpwood; cutting and skidding logs; raising hogs; stealing
water melons and flunking the eighth grade, provided a
humble, but rich, beginning for a future professor, world traveller
and diverse scholar. He was the only one of his two brothers
and three sisters to graduate from high school. The stories
of his youthful illicit activities in the “whiskey business”
are true. As an eight year-old sitting astride six cases of
half-gallon jars of “hootch” in the rumble seat of
a 1938 Ford Coupe, he served as a “lookout” for his
occasional moonshine-running dad as they delivered Uncle Cotton’s
“corn-squeezings” across the Oklahoma/Arkansas state
line to waiting bootleggers. It was, perhaps, the “peripheral
vision” and quick reflexes developed at this time that
would later contribute to his earning a full college basketball
scholarship. But now to the present.
In addition to his Scotland-related studies and “Scotch
Doc” exploits, Dr. David McCoy engages in numerous other
diverse activities, interests and hobbies. The Doctorate of
Education Degree is “well earned” as he admits to
being a perpetual “student of life” and having “traversed
many of its trails.” This academic energy has earned him
additional degrees in Social Studies, History, Photojournalism,
Education Administration and Educational Technology. He
has been a full-time Professor at Eastfield College of The Dallas
County Community College District for twenty-nine years and
is Chairman of the Photography Department. He is an accomplished
landscape, portrait and social events photographer and is the
proprietor of McCoy’s Photography of Dallas. Indeed, his
studio was named “The Best in Dallas County” by the
1999, sixth edition of Dallas/Fort Worth Weddings: The Coopwood
& Fields Consumer Planning Guide. His hobbies include
computer technology studies; history studies; writing poetry,
letters and social critiques; collecting coins, antique cameras,
quality leather-bound books, and prohibition era memoribalia;
and entertaining guests and clients with his colorful poems
and country music singing. His collection of Scotch Single Malt Whisky is, perhaps, the largest, most comprehensive collection
(about 900 sealed bottles) in the United States. He is especially
proud that he is able to use his reputation and knowledge of
the Scotch single malt for worthy causes. He donates his
services and rare bottlings of Scotch Single Malt Whisky to
several fund raising causes every year.
Dr. McCoy has gained a reputation as quite the “party animal”
for his contributions to private parties and various other social
functions. Party-goers in Paris, France; Republican Party Convention
attendees aboard a private “hospitality yacht” in
San Diego; fishermen at General Norman Schwarzkopf’s Invitational
Fishing Tournament in Florida; business executives from all
over North America at Disney World’s Living Seas Lounge;
some of Scotland’s finest hotels; and Loch Lomond Golf
Club members in Santa Fe, New Mexico, have now experienced the
kilted Scotch Doc’s very unique “malty-cultural,”
gastronomic extravaganza. As the kilted “Scotch Doc,”
he contributes a distinguished, unique, interesting and entertaining
element to social gatherings. Dr. McCoy adds another dimension
to a party as he mixes and mingles with the guests and responds
to questions pertaining to Scottish history and culture, the
Scotch Single Malt Whisky and his colorful and rich background.
He is often referred to as a “twentieth century Renaissance
man.” He most assuredly is “The Real McCoy.”
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