Martin, Julian

Julina Martin is the eighth generation of his family born in West Virginia's Big Coal River Valley. His father once told him of shoveling coal in a coal mine while standing on his knees in a foot of water. Martin has a chemical engineering degree from West Virginia University and worked two years in the chemical industry. After one month training to make sidewinder missiles, he joined the Peace Corps. Since the Peace Corps Martin worked as Foreign Student Adviser at West Virginia University, taught high school chemistry and physics in the San Francisco Bay area and in West Virginia, directed U...