Mark McCutcheon is Irish and Scottish and proud. His grandparents immigrated to the United States from Ireland when his Grandfather was no more than five or six. Mark's parents started a fresh tradition by going to Benjamin Franklin High School, but Rochester-born Mark went his own way to School #41, School #7, Marshall High, and then to Brockport High School in the Town of Brockport, where he still lives today.
Mark attended Monroe Community College in Rochester and had planned on going into the Air Force when an unexpected ulcer kept him from signing up. But the condition may have been a blessing in disguise. It helped him become interested in health and sickness and the medical field. He considered becoming a Doctor and still has plans to do so.
But high goals require preparation, and Mark started on the road by becoming involved in dentistry and dental care.
“I had good dentists myself and I liked them,” he says. “So I took an introductory course in dental care in a We-Mo-Co BOCES program at MCC. I liked it! So I went on and got degree for Dental Assistant there. And I went from there to here at Dr. G's almost at once. I have to thank Tracy and Jeanine here for that. Tracy's boyfriend and Jeanine's husband and I hunt together at the State Park, and when a position opened up they let me know first thing. I took it, and I'm glad I did.”
“Not every job is as much fun as this one. It's not just that we help people get better, though we do help them get better. It's helping them feel better by coming to a place where people are friends.
"We have lunch together and do barbeques together and hang out together. It's like a family. We feel good and it helps the people who stop by feel good too and get better quicker. And that's what it's all about.”
