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Four UA alumni meet in Muscat, Oman, in January 2017.
From left: Andrew Leavitt ’88, Abdulaziz AlKindi ’87,
Karen Leavitt ’87 and Saeed Al-Muharrami ’88. The
Leavitts visited the University of Nizwa to honor its
partnership with the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.

1990s Terry Brunner ’93 recently
founded Grow New Mexico, a
nonprofit dedicated to drawing
needed funds and assistance to
Marla Smith-Nilson projects that improve the quality
’91 and Crissy Ahmann of life in New Mexico communities.
Perham ’94 represent the Previously, he was a presidential
Wildcats and Water First appointee with the Obama
International in Honduras. administration for seven years.
Marla is the founder and
executive director of the Robert Lindh ’96 was recently
nonprofit, which travels the promoted to vice president of
world to help water-stressed sales at CSI Leasing Inc. Previously
communities. Crissy, a 1992 a senior relationship manager,
Wildcat Olympian, joined Robert continues to be responsible
Marla and her team to for originating equipment lease
support this work. transactions and technology life
cycle solutions, including asset
management, data protection and
proper disposal. He is based in
Newport Beach, California, and has
been with CSI for six years and in
Lila Javan ’94, a Los Angeles- the leasing business for 25 years.
based cinematographer, is
working on the documentary Zaida Cordero MacIntyre ’98
of her career — a film about is an associate professor in the
climbing Mount Kilimanjaro School of Public Health at Loma
to raise funds for cancer Linda University. Zaida also is the
research. Cancer survivor Lila CEO of ZAICOM, a small business
and her team, which includes that offers consulting services and
her oncology doctors and designs of health care products.
nurses as well as friends who Bob MacIntyre, ZAICOM’s chief
have been touched by cancer, engineer and Zaida’s husband,
climbed the 19,341-foot invented a syringe that can be
mountain in January. operated with one hand, making it
easier for health care professionals
to administer injectables. It has
been patented by Loma Linda.

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