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The School of International Service honored Fruzsina Harsanyi, SIS/BA 鈥�64, SIS/MA鈥�67, SPA/PhD 鈥�72, as SIS Alumna of the Year on April 29, 2010 at its 52nd Anniversary celebration hosted by the Hungarian Embassy in Washington, D.C.

鈥淭hank you for letting me flaunt my Hungarian heritage,鈥� Harsanyi told the crowd at the embassy. She made good on her promise to cite her roots after the former Hungarian Ambassador chided her for never mentioning her background at previous speaking engagements. 听

鈥淧aprika courses through my veins,鈥� she said, echoing a line she heard recently from a fellow Hungarian, former N.Y. Governor George Pataki.听

Harsanyi said she was quite surprised when SIS Dean Lou Goodman told her she had been selected for the award, but also very excited. "I didn鈥檛 think that I had done anything so remarkable鈥� other than what I was trained for and what was expected of me."

Harsanyi, Senior Advisor to the Public Affairs Council, mentioned two people who鈥檝e had the greatest impact on her life. 鈥漁ne who sent me to SIS, my father, and the one who sent me away from SIS, my former advisor Professor Sam Sharp.鈥� 听

She was a Freshman English major at the University of Pennsylvania when her father came home from a work meeting in D.C. with a brochure from the School of International Service. 鈥淭he brochure said, 鈥楶rogram D: Business Diplomacy鈥欌�搕he classes sounded exotic. World politics and international law sounded much more interesting than dissecting Shakespeare and Chaucer,鈥� she said. 听

By September of her sophomore year, she was enrolled at AU. 鈥淚 applied, did the interviews, and came down to D.C. It all happened so fast.鈥澨�

She loved SIS so much that she stayed for 11 years straight, long enough to obtain three degrees.鈥淚 was a student with tenure,鈥� she says.听

Her dream was to be a college professor, but she chose a different path instead. 鈥淢y advisor, Professor Sharp, knew me better than I knew myself. He said, 鈥業f you really want to be a good teacher, you鈥檝e got to get out and do something else. You have to leave SIS. You must leave this wonderful womb.鈥� So I left campus, I left my friends, went downtown, and got a real job.鈥澨�

Her career took off and for 30 years she managed the public affairs for several multinational corporations, including the Continental Group, Combustion Engineering, ABB Inc., and Tyco International.听

SIS, she says, gave her an international perspective when the United States was in the Cold War, as well as a commitment to service, and a set of values of that guided her professional life. 鈥淚t made me comfortable maneuvering in the global society that we have become.鈥澨�

Among the many values she names, all have a common denominator of seeking the truth both outward and inward, because 鈥測ou better know who you are and where you stand.鈥� She says, 鈥淚f you don鈥檛 have Integrity, you don鈥檛 have trust, and if you don鈥檛 have trust, you don鈥檛 have relationships. And if you can鈥檛 build relationships, you鈥檙e nothing here [in D.C.]听

Many friends, family, colleagues, and fellow alumni were there to celebrate her honor for outstanding service. SIS Dean Goodman said, 鈥淚 have been a big admirer of Fruszi since I first heard of her distinguished business career and I鈥檓 honored she joined the Dean鈥檚 Advisory Council.鈥澨�

The Hungarian Ambassador, His Excellency B茅la Szombati, called Harsanyi 鈥渁 wonderful specimen of the combination of these two countries.鈥� 听

鈥淗ungary gave a bright young student to 蜜桃直播,鈥� then, in turn, 鈥淎U gave a great public affairs consultant and teacher to the world based on the raw materials that Hungary gave,鈥� he said.听

This fall, Harsanyi will return to AU to teach a class on International Global Public Affairs at SIS. She will also teach at Georgetown University and the Australian Center for Public Affairs.听

鈥淚 hope to replicate the learning partnership that I experienced while a student at AU,鈥� she said. She wants her students 鈥渘ot to be linear thinkers; to be curious and inquisitive; to be citizens of the world; to embrace diversity; to be comfortable with their roots because their very soul depends on that; to be proud Americans without being arrogant.鈥澨�

鈥淚 want to guide the next generation of business managers so they don鈥檛 just look at the bottom line, but the larger context on which they operate. I will forever be an advocate for an activist - and an action - orientated civil society; for people who say the good doesn鈥檛 happen by itself, and the good doesn鈥檛 stay good unless somebody intervenes. I think if we take this view, we have a chance of controlling the damage that may happen, averting the bad things that may happen, and just possibly making things a little better.鈥�