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Show MARK BURNINGHAM Mark Burningham was a third year transfer to Zion from Medical School in Pennsylvania where he and his wife LaShell were unduly ejected in a jealous rage for being the best looking couple in the state, and Brigham Young football fans to boot. Mark hasn't been able to get as broad an exposure to the whole class of '87 as we'd like because he didn't wise up until the third year, but those of us who've worked with him agree that Mark is a great guy, as expected for a kid who hails from Turlock, Calfiornia (God's Country). His C.V. reads as a real nightmare if you are competing for the same Orthopedics residency for which he's applying. A former LDS Missionary to Spain who now speaks and eats fluent spanish, a multi-scholarship winner at BYU who is now working on two Orthopedics research projects, an Air Force lieutenant, a former track and field athlete and cardiopulmonary tech who is now a Cub Scout Leader of all things in his "spare" time, Mark epitomizes the ideal applicant who makes all of the rest of us underachievers want to commit seppuku in the waiting room rather than follow Mark in for the interview. Although there are laws against coveting your neighbor's goods, your neighbor's wife, your neighbor's inherited Tom-Selleck looks, we classmates sometimes can't help ourselves, and in Mark's case we will make an exception in a friendly vein. We envy this guy while wishing him the best with his career, and we thank God that he doesn't have a twin brother in medicine also. At least he's not trying for my first-choice internship in Rock Springs, Wyoming ... ( |
