Archive for March, 2009

By Stewart Sarkozy-Banoczy ‘91

Over the past month or so I have been reminded of what it might mean to be a global citizen and how our classmates, peers, business partners and others from the larger Thunderbird world exemplify that global citizenship.  This reminder came in two forms – a fellow TBird and friend we wish to honor, and the TBirds who choose to honor him – as part of one effort. Let me explain. When I came to Thunderbird in the Fall of 1989, one of the first people I met was Donny Howell.
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Covered parking spaces come with something extra at the North American headquarters of British Telecommunications in sunny Southern California. Solar panels mounted on parking lot shade structures deliver enough renewable energy to power more than 150 average-sized California homes for one year. That translates to about 15 percent of British Telecommunications’ electricity requirements at the site. Carrie Norton, a 2003 Thunderbird graduate, spearheaded the project as a senior manager at Suntech Energy Solutions.
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Julia Guth ’87 almost turned down the job she’s held the last 20 years. It paid very little then, but Guth was sold on the chance to travel the world. “From Thunderbird, I always wanted to work on a global scale,” Guth said. She travels less today but oversees a host of financial and travel publications for Agora Publishing, a company that grew from 25 to 800 employees under her watch. She’s also the executive director of The Oxford Club, a Maryland-based investor network of 70,000 members worldwide. And she serves on the Board of Trustees for the Roberto Clemente Santa Ana Health Clinic in Nicaragua, an organization she helped establish.
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