John Wallace:  

Life Gee. How to summarize twenty years in less than 4000 words! For your sake I'll try to keep it under 1000 words. Some of you may remember that I went to BYU in the fall of '83. I froze my butt off in Utah (and was pretty homesick). To top it off I suffered my very first broken heart. For reasons I can't really remember, I was certain that I was going to marry Kristen DeLeon after high school. But Kristen went to UCR and, like so many tragic tales, found a life that didn't include little ol' me. I know you're all reaching for the Kleenex as you read this. Still love ya, Kristen. Anyway, after a year at BYU, I went to Argentina for two years as a missionary. Great experience. Tough, thankless work. Wouldn't trade it for the world. When I got home I went back to BYU, met a girl named Mindy and married her way too soon. I was only 22 but I thought I was as smart as I was ever going to be. As it turned out, not quite. We divorced five and a half years later. But not before bringing into this world the greatest joy of my life: Brandon Christopher. He's ten now and becoming almost as much of a smartass as his dad! After college I enrolled in the UCLA School of Dentistry. Yup. I'm a dentist believe it or not. My office is in Los Alamitos. I have a partner, a couple associate dentists (one of which is Mike Zell by the way--EUHS '85) and life is good. I am also trying my hand at a totally unrelated career: screenwriting. It would take ...Expand for more