Wm. Bruce McCoy worked in education for 45 years. He started with 14 years at Brownell-Talbot School in Omaha, then was athletic director and assistant principal at Bellevue West High School from 1979-89, before going on to serve 20 years as the superintendent of three small school districts at Exeter, Nebraska, Winnebago, Nebraska and at Lewiston, Nebraska, where he retired in the summer of 2011 after 15 years there. McCoy got his B.A. degree from Peru State College in 1965, his Master's Degree in Guidance & Counseling from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in !970 and his Doctorate in Educational Administration from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1977.