Mark Coyne gave liberally of himself, as an emergency nurse teaching thousands of students and in his strongly held opinions.
“One time he said to me, just in passing, A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle, ‘ ” said Todd Cole, a student, friend and colleague of Coyne ‘s for 20 years. “I look out and I think of all the candles he ‘s lit in the state of Wisconsin and it ‘s just amazing. “