{"id":30522,"date":"2017-05-27T12:01:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T16:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/?p=30522\/"},"modified":"2017-05-27T12:01:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T16:01:43","slug":"annual-gala-honors-ambassador-april-h-foley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/annual-gala-honors-ambassador-april-h-foley\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Gala Honors Ambassador April H. Foley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, DC –\u00a0On\u00a0May 19, 2017, the Hungarian American Coalition (Coalition)\u00a0honored\u00a0Ambassador April H. Foley,\u00a0U.S. Ambassador to Hungary between 2006 and 2009 and\u00a0Chair of the Board of Trustees of The Hungary Initiatives Foundation (HIF), at\u00a0its\u00a013th\u00a0annual Gala Dinner.<\/p>\n

His Excellency J\u00e1nos \u00c1der, President of Hungary,\u00a0was Honorary Chairman of the event,\u00a0held\u00a0at the House of Sweden\u00a0in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

Coalition\u00a0President Andrea Lauer Rice welcomed the distinguished guests:\u00a0Ambassador April H. Foley and her children and\u00a0their\u00a0spouses,\u00a0Mr. Gifford Foley and Mrs. and Mrs. Katherine Foley, Mr. James Foley and Mrs. Tara Foley,\u00a0and\u00a0Ms. Catherine Foley;\u00a0her\u00a0brother-in-law\u00a0Ambassador Thomas C. Foley and Mrs. Leslie Foley;\u00a0Gala Co-Chairs\u00a0Mrs. Edith Lauer, Chair Emerita of the Coalition, and Mr. John Lauer, Honorary Economic Consul to Hungary;\u00a0Ambassador Kurt Volker, Executive Director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership of Arizona State University;\u00a0Ambassador Richard Swett; Ambassador\u00a0Dr.\u00a0R\u00e9ka Szemerk\u00e9nyi, Hungary\u2019s\u00a0outgoing\u00a0Ambassador to the United States\u00a0and her husband, Mr. Szabolcs I. Ferencz;\u00a0Mrs.\u00a0Annette\u00a0Lantos\u00a0and her daughter\u00a0Mrs. Annette Lantos Tillemann-Dick;\u00a0Ambassador Colleen Bell, former U.S. Ambassador to Hungary;\u00a0Mr. Timothy A. Betts,\u00a0Senior Advisor for Security Negotiations and Agreements at the State Department, former\u00a0DCM in Budapest\u00a0and his wife, Mrs. Helen Betts; Mr. John Lipsky, former\u00a0acting Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund\u00a0and Mrs. Zsuzsa K\u00e1r\u00e1sz Lipsky; Mrs. Anna Smith Lacey, Executive Director of HIF;\u00a0Dr. Tam\u00e1s Fellegi, former\u00a0Minister of National Development\u00a0in Hungary and Board Member of HIF;\u00a0and Mr. Damon Wilson, Executive Vice President at the Atlantic Council.<\/p>\n

Other prominent guests included:\u00a0Mr. Max Teleki, President Emeritus of the Coalition and his parents\u00a0Mr. and Mrs. Istv\u00e1n and Beatriz Teleki;\u00a0Ms. Alice Balla, President of the Hungarian Club of Colorado; Rev. Emese Asztalos,\u00a0associate pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Daytona Beach\u00a0and Ms. Piros Pazaurek;\u00a0Mrs. \u00c9va Kov\u00e1cs\u00a0of the\u00a0St.\u00a0Stephen Catholic Community in Washington;\u00a0Mrs. Joe Anne Barnhart, Executive Director of\u00a0the Magyar Foundation of North America\u00a0and her colleagues;\u00a0Mr. Matt Mowers,\u00a0Senior White House Advisor\u00a0and Ms.\u00a0Cassie Spodak; Mr. Ryan Williams,\u00a0Senior Vice\u00a0President of\u00a0Communications\u00a0at FP1 Strategies and Ms. Annie Starke.<\/p>\n

Also in attendance were Coalition board members Zsolt Szekeres, Treasurer;\u00a0Coalition Vice President\u00a0Mr. Stefan\u00a0Fedor and\u00a0Mrs. Erika Fedor, founders of the American Hungarian Heritage House; Coalition Vice President Csilla Grauzer, Honorary Consul of Hungary in Minnesota\u00a0and President of the Minnesota Hungarians; Coalition Chairman of the Board Dr. \u00c1gnes Virga, President of the Hungarian Society of Massachusetts;\u00a0Mrs. Anne Bader; Mr. Gabe Rozsa, Chairman of the Kossuth Foundation; and Mr. Julius Varallyay.<\/p>\n

Many\u00a0Embassy of Hungary staff\u00a0were also in attendance:\u00a0Mr. Zsolt Hetesy,\u00a0Charg\u00e9 d’affaires;\u00a0Brigadier General Zsolt S\u00e1ndor, Defense, Military and Air Attach\u00e9\u00a0and Mrs. Katalin S\u00e1ndor;\u00a0Ms. Krisztina Osv\u00e1t,\u00a0Counselor\u00a0in charge of outreach to the Hungarian American community; Ms. Dorottya M\u00e1rtonffy-Nagy, Commercial and Economic Attach\u00e9;\u00a0Mr. P\u00e9ter Gyombolai,\u00a0Counselor, Hungarian Diaspora\u00a0Liaison\u00a0and Mrs. Eszter Gyombolai;\u00a0Mr. B\u00e9la Gedeon,\u00a0First Secretary, Political and Public Affairs Officer\u00a0and Dr. M\u00f3nika Varga.<\/p>\n

After\u00a0her welcoming remarks\u00a0Mrs. Lauer Rice\u00a0together with\u00a0Max Teleki\u00a0and \u00c1gnes Virga announced a surprise award ceremony\u00a0on behalf of the Board of Directors and members\u00a0of the Coalition,\u00a0they\u00a0expressed\u00a0their\u00a0gratitude to\u00a0outgoing Ambassador\u00a0Dr. R\u00e9ka Szemerk\u00e9nyi for her dedicated and inspired service, representing the best interests of Hungary as Ambassador to the United States in 2015-2017, and for her genuine interest and warm friendship for the Hungarian diaspora in the United States.<\/p>\n

In accepting the award,\u00a0Ambassador\u00a0Dr. R\u00e9ka Szemerk\u00e9nyi\u00a0thanked the Coalition for its friendship and said. “One of the\u00a0greatest\u00a0assets we have in Hungarian-American relations is this fantastic Hungarian-American community across\u00a0the United States;\u00a0I very much appreciate your friendship, your openness in\u00a0receiving\u00a0me and I really hope that this strong friendship that we have built will continue.”<\/p>\n

Next,\u00a0Mrs. Lauer Rice reported on the latest developments of\u00a0the Memory Project initiative,\u00a0launched\u00a0in 2016\u00a0by Mrs. Lauer Rice and\u00a0R\u00e9ka Pigniczky,\u00a0Coalition\u00a0member and documentary filmmaker,\u00a0and showed\u00a0a\u00a0compilation video entitled ‘What are your first memories of emigration?’. The Memory Project\u00a0commemorates\u00a0the spirit of 1956\u00a0through\u00a0100\u00a0video\u00a0interviews with\u00a0Hungarian-Americans who were witnesses and participants in the 1956\u00a0events.<\/p>\n

In her remarks after dinner, Mrs. Lauer Rice presented\u00a0the major achievements of the Coalition\u00a0in 2016,\u00a0highlighting\u00a0the organization\u2019s 25th\u00a0anniversary and the commemorations of the 60th\u00a0anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956\u00a0last year\u00a0which involved\u00a0Hungarian-American communities\u00a0across the United States. She emphasized the importance\u00a0of\u00a0the Coalition\u2019s\u00a0ongoing\u00a0educational\u00a0programs, with a special focus on its flagship project, the Coalition Internship Program,\u00a0and\u00a0mentioned some of\u00a0the\u00a0remarkable\u00a0alumni. Mrs. Lauer Rice said: “Thank you to each and every one of you for your support for these oftentimes life-changing programs. A very special thank you to the Hungary Initiatives Foundation for\u00a0their continued support in making the Coalition Internship Program such a success.”<\/p>\n

After Mrs. Lauer Rice\u2019s remarks, Mrs. Edith K. Lauer\u00a0introduced Ambassador April H. Foley, the Coalition\u2019s\u00a02017\u00a0honoree,\u00a0praising\u00a0her accomplishments as ambassador, Chair of HIF and skillful business executive, and thanked Ambassador Foley for her continued strong commitment to US-Hungarian relations and her genuine love of their\u00a0homeland.\u00a0Before Mrs. Edith Lauer\u2019s laudation, a\u00a0short video interview with\u00a0Ambassador Foley\u00a0was shown\u00a0(the video is available here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Award ceremony (from left to right):Mr. Stefan Fedor, Mrs. Andrea Lauer Rice, Ambassador April H. Foley, Mrs. Edith K. Lauer, Dr. \u00c1gnes Virga, Mrs. Csilla Grauzer, Mr. Max Teleki<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In accepting the award,\u00a0Ambassador Foley\u00a0thanked everybody for their attendance, with a special recognition to her children and friends from Waccabuc, NY and Smith College, and emphasized\u00a0her\u00a0love of Hungary and its culture by saying: “My love affair with Hungary started in 2006 and it is just never going away: it has been such a source of joy and fulfillment in my life”.<\/p>\n

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May 21, 2017 | Washington, DC\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: hacusa.org<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Washington, DC –\u00a0On\u00a0May 19, 2017, the Hungarian American Coalition (Coalition)\u00a0honored\u00a0Ambassador April H. Foley,\u00a0U.S. Ambassador to Hungary between 2006 and 2009 and\u00a0Chair of the Board of Trustees of The Hungary Initiatives Foundation (HIF), at\u00a0its\u00a013th\u00a0annual Gala Dinner.<\/p>\n

His Excellency J\u00e1nos \u00c1der, President of Hungary,\u00a0was Honorary Chairman of the event,\u00a0held\u00a0at the House of Sweden\u00a0in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

Coalition\u00a0President Andrea Lauer Rice welcomed the distinguished guests:\u00a0Ambassador April H. Foley and her children and\u00a0their\u00a0spouses,\u00a0Mr. Gifford Foley and Mrs. and Mrs. Katherine Foley, Mr. James Foley and Mrs. Tara Foley,\u00a0and\u00a0Ms. Catherine Foley;\u00a0her\u00a0brother-in-law\u00a0Ambassador Thomas C. Foley and Mrs. Leslie Foley;\u00a0Gala Co-Chairs\u00a0Mrs. Edith Lauer, Chair Emerita of the Coalition, and Mr. John Lauer, Honorary Economic Consul to Hungary;\u00a0Ambassador Kurt Volker, Executive Director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership of Arizona State University;\u00a0Ambassador Richard Swett; Ambassador\u00a0Dr.\u00a0R\u00e9ka Szemerk\u00e9nyi, Hungary\u2019s\u00a0outgoing\u00a0Ambassador to the United States\u00a0and her husband, Mr. Szabolcs I. Ferencz;\u00a0Mrs.\u00a0Annette\u00a0Lantos\u00a0and her daughter\u00a0Mrs. Annette Lantos Tillemann-Dick;\u00a0Ambassador Colleen Bell, former U.S. Ambassador to Hungary;\u00a0Mr. Timothy A. Betts,\u00a0Senior Advisor for Security Negotiations and Agreements at the State Department, former\u00a0DCM in Budapest\u00a0and his wife, Mrs. Helen Betts; Mr. John Lipsky, former\u00a0acting Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund\u00a0and Mrs. Zsuzsa K\u00e1r\u00e1sz Lipsky; Mrs. Anna Smith Lacey, Executive Director of HIF;\u00a0Dr. Tam\u00e1s Fellegi, former\u00a0Minister of National Development\u00a0in Hungary and Board Member of HIF;\u00a0and Mr. Damon Wilson, Executive Vice President at the Atlantic Council.<\/p>\n

Other prominent guests included:\u00a0Mr. Max Teleki, President Emeritus of the Coalition and his parents\u00a0Mr. and Mrs. Istv\u00e1n and Beatriz Teleki;\u00a0Ms. Alice Balla, President of the Hungarian Club of Colorado; Rev. Emese Asztalos,\u00a0associate pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Daytona Beach\u00a0and Ms. Piros Pazaurek;\u00a0Mrs. \u00c9va Kov\u00e1cs\u00a0of the\u00a0St.\u00a0Stephen Catholic Community in Washington;\u00a0Mrs. Joe Anne Barnhart, Executive Director of\u00a0the Magyar Foundation of North America\u00a0and her colleagues;\u00a0Mr. Matt Mowers,\u00a0Senior White House Advisor\u00a0and Ms.\u00a0Cassie Spodak; Mr. Ryan Williams,\u00a0Senior Vice\u00a0President of\u00a0Communications\u00a0at FP1 Strategies and Ms. Annie Starke.<\/p>\n

Also in attendance were Coalition board members Zsolt Szekeres, Treasurer;\u00a0Coalition Vice President\u00a0Mr. Stefan\u00a0Fedor and\u00a0Mrs. Erika Fedor, founders of the American Hungarian Heritage House; Coalition Vice President Csilla Grauzer, Honorary Consul of Hungary in Minnesota\u00a0and President of the Minnesota Hungarians; Coalition Chairman of the Board Dr. \u00c1gnes Virga, President of the Hungarian Society of Massachusetts;\u00a0Mrs. Anne Bader; Mr. Gabe Rozsa, Chairman of the Kossuth Foundation; and Mr. Julius Varallyay.<\/p>\n

Many\u00a0Embassy of Hungary staff\u00a0were also in attendance:\u00a0Mr. Zsolt Hetesy,\u00a0Charg\u00e9 d’affaires;\u00a0Brigadier General Zsolt S\u00e1ndor, Defense, Military and Air Attach\u00e9\u00a0and Mrs. Katalin S\u00e1ndor;\u00a0Ms. Krisztina Osv\u00e1t,\u00a0Counselor\u00a0in charge of outreach to the Hungarian American community; Ms. Dorottya M\u00e1rtonffy-Nagy, Commercial and Economic Attach\u00e9;\u00a0Mr. P\u00e9ter Gyombolai,\u00a0Counselor, Hungarian Diaspora\u00a0Liaison\u00a0and Mrs. Eszter Gyombolai;\u00a0Mr. B\u00e9la Gedeon,\u00a0First Secretary, Political and Public Affairs Officer\u00a0and Dr. M\u00f3nika Varga.<\/p>\n

After\u00a0her welcoming remarks\u00a0Mrs. Lauer Rice\u00a0together with\u00a0Max Teleki\u00a0and \u00c1gnes Virga announced a surprise award ceremony\u00a0on behalf of the Board of Directors and members\u00a0of the Coalition,\u00a0they\u00a0expressed\u00a0their\u00a0gratitude to\u00a0outgoing Ambassador\u00a0Dr. R\u00e9ka Szemerk\u00e9nyi for her dedicated and inspired service, representing the best interests of Hungary as Ambassador to the United States in 2015-2017, and for her genuine interest and warm friendship for the Hungarian diaspora in the United States.<\/p>\n

In accepting the award,\u00a0Ambassador\u00a0Dr. R\u00e9ka Szemerk\u00e9nyi\u00a0thanked the Coalition for its friendship and said. “One of the\u00a0greatest\u00a0assets we have in Hungarian-American relations is this fantastic Hungarian-American community across\u00a0the United States;\u00a0I very much appreciate your friendship, your openness in\u00a0receiving\u00a0me and I really hope that this strong friendship that we have built will continue.”<\/p>\n

Next,\u00a0Mrs. Lauer Rice reported on the latest developments of\u00a0the Memory Project initiative,\u00a0launched\u00a0in 2016\u00a0by Mrs. Lauer Rice and\u00a0R\u00e9ka Pigniczky,\u00a0Coalition\u00a0member and documentary filmmaker,\u00a0and showed\u00a0a\u00a0compilation video entitled ‘What are your first memories of emigration?’. The Memory Project\u00a0commemorates\u00a0the spirit of 1956\u00a0through\u00a0100\u00a0video\u00a0interviews with\u00a0Hungarian-Americans who were witnesses and participants in the 1956\u00a0events.<\/p>\n

In her remarks after dinner, Mrs. Lauer Rice presented\u00a0the major achievements of the Coalition\u00a0in 2016,\u00a0highlighting\u00a0the organization\u2019s 25th\u00a0anniversary and the commemorations of the 60th\u00a0anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956\u00a0last year\u00a0which involved\u00a0Hungarian-American communities\u00a0across the United States. She emphasized the importance\u00a0of\u00a0the Coalition\u2019s\u00a0ongoing\u00a0educational\u00a0programs, with a special focus on its flagship project, the Coalition Internship Program,\u00a0and\u00a0mentioned some of\u00a0the\u00a0remarkable\u00a0alumni. Mrs. Lauer Rice said: “Thank you to each and every one of you for your support for these oftentimes life-changing programs. A very special thank you to the Hungary Initiatives Foundation for\u00a0their continued support in making the Coalition Internship Program such a success.”<\/p>\n

After Mrs. Lauer Rice\u2019s remarks, Mrs. Edith K. Lauer\u00a0introduced Ambassador April H. Foley, the Coalition\u2019s\u00a02017\u00a0honoree,\u00a0praising\u00a0her accomplishments as ambassador, Chair of HIF and skillful business executive, and thanked Ambassador Foley for her continued strong commitment to US-Hungarian relations and her genuine love of their\u00a0homeland.\u00a0Before Mrs. Edith Lauer\u2019s laudation, a\u00a0short video interview with\u00a0Ambassador Foley\u00a0was shown\u00a0(the video is available here<\/a>).<\/p>\n[caption id=\"attachment_30523\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"600\"]\"\"<\/a> Award ceremony (from left to right):Mr. Stefan Fedor, Mrs. Andrea Lauer Rice, Ambassador April H. Foley, Mrs. Edith K. Lauer, Dr. \u00c1gnes Virga, Mrs. Csilla Grauzer, Mr. Max Teleki[\/caption]\n

In accepting the award,\u00a0Ambassador Foley\u00a0thanked everybody for their attendance, with a special recognition to her children and friends from Waccabuc, NY and Smith College, and emphasized\u00a0her\u00a0love of Hungary and its culture by saying: “My love affair with Hungary started in 2006 and it is just never going away: it has been such a source of joy and fulfillment in my life”.<\/p>\n

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May 21, 2017 | Washington, DC\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: hacusa.org<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Foley and Mrs. Leslie Foley;\u00a0Gala Co-Chairs\u00a0Mrs. Edith Lauer, Chair Emerita of the Coalition, and Mr. John Lauer, Honorary Economic Consul to Hungary;\u00a0Ambassador Kurt Volker, Executive Director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership of Arizona State University;\u00a0Ambassador Richard Swett; Ambassador\u00a0Dr.\u00a0R\u00e9ka Szemerk\u00e9nyi, Hungary\u2019s\u00a0outgoing\u00a0Ambassador to the United States\u00a0and her husband, Mr. Szabolcs I. Ferencz;\u00a0Mrs.\u00a0Annette\u00a0Lantos\u00a0and her daughter\u00a0Mrs. Annette Lantos Tillemann-Dick;\u00a0Ambassador Colleen Bell, former U.S. Ambassador to Hungary;\u00a0Mr. Timothy A. Betts,\u00a0Senior Advisor for Security Negotiations and Agreements at the State Department, former\u00a0DCM in Budapest\u00a0and his wife, Mrs. Helen Betts; Mr. John Lipsky, former\u00a0acting Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund\u00a0and Mrs. Zsuzsa K\u00e1r\u00e1sz Lipsky; Mrs. Anna Smith Lacey, Executive Director of HIF;\u00a0Dr. Tam\u00e1s Fellegi, former\u00a0Minister of National Development\u00a0in Hungary and Board Member of HIF;\u00a0and Mr. Damon Wilson, Executive Vice President at the Atlantic Council. Other prominent guests included:\u00a0Mr. Max Teleki, President Emeritus of the Coalition and his parents\u00a0Mr. and Mrs. Istv\u00e1n and Beatriz Teleki;\u00a0Ms. Alice Balla, President of the Hungarian Club of Colorado; Rev. 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Also in attendance were Coalition board members Zsolt Szekeres, Treasurer;\u00a0Coalition Vice President\u00a0Mr. Stefan\u00a0Fedor and\u00a0Mrs. Erika Fedor, founders of the American Hungarian Heritage House; Coalition Vice President Csilla Grauzer, Honorary Consul of Hungary in Minnesota\u00a0and President of the Minnesota Hungarians; Coalition Chairman of the Board Dr. \u00c1gnes Virga, President of the Hungarian Society of Massachusetts;\u00a0Mrs. Anne Bader; Mr. Gabe Rozsa, Chairman of the Kossuth Foundation; and Mr. Julius Varallyay. Many\u00a0Embassy of Hungary staff\u00a0were also in attendance:\u00a0Mr. Zsolt Hetesy,\u00a0Charg\u00e9 d'affaires;\u00a0Brigadier General Zsolt S\u00e1ndor, Defense, Military and Air Attach\u00e9\u00a0and Mrs. Katalin S\u00e1ndor;\u00a0Ms. Krisztina Osv\u00e1t,\u00a0Counselor\u00a0in charge of outreach to the Hungarian American community; Ms. Dorottya M\u00e1rtonffy-Nagy, Commercial and Economic Attach\u00e9;\u00a0Mr. P\u00e9ter Gyombolai,\u00a0Counselor, Hungarian Diaspora\u00a0Liaison\u00a0and Mrs. Eszter Gyombolai;\u00a0Mr. B\u00e9la Gedeon,\u00a0First Secretary, Political and Public Affairs Officer\u00a0and Dr. M\u00f3nika Varga. After\u00a0her welcoming remarks\u00a0Mrs. Lauer Rice\u00a0together with\u00a0Max Teleki\u00a0and \u00c1gnes Virga announced a surprise award ceremony\u00a0on behalf of the Board of Directors and members\u00a0of the Coalition,\u00a0they\u00a0expressed\u00a0their\u00a0gratitude to\u00a0outgoing Ambassador\u00a0Dr. R\u00e9ka Szemerk\u00e9nyi for her dedicated and inspired service, representing the best interests of Hungary as Ambassador to the United States in 2015-2017, and for her genuine interest and warm friendship for the Hungarian diaspora in the United States. In accepting the award,\u00a0Ambassador\u00a0Dr. R\u00e9ka Szemerk\u00e9nyi\u00a0thanked the Coalition for its friendship and said. "One of the\u00a0greatest\u00a0assets we have in Hungarian-American relations is this fantastic Hungarian-American community across\u00a0the United States;\u00a0I very much appreciate your friendship, your openness in\u00a0receiving\u00a0me and I really hope that this strong friendship that we have built will continue." Next,\u00a0Mrs. Lauer Rice reported on the latest developments of\u00a0the Memory Project initiative,\u00a0launched\u00a0in 2016\u00a0by Mrs. Lauer Rice and\u00a0R\u00e9ka Pigniczky,\u00a0Coalition\u00a0member and documentary filmmaker,\u00a0and showed\u00a0a\u00a0compilation video entitled 'What are your first memories of emigration?'. The Memory Project\u00a0commemorates\u00a0the spirit of 1956\u00a0through\u00a0100\u00a0video\u00a0interviews with\u00a0Hungarian-Americans who were witnesses and participants in the 1956\u00a0events. In her remarks after dinner, Mrs. Lauer Rice presented\u00a0the major achievements of the Coalition\u00a0in 2016,\u00a0highlighting\u00a0the organization\u2019s 25th\u00a0anniversary and the commemorations of the 60th\u00a0anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956\u00a0last year\u00a0which involved\u00a0Hungarian-American communities\u00a0across the United States. She emphasized the importance\u00a0of\u00a0the Coalition\u2019s\u00a0ongoing\u00a0educational\u00a0programs, with a special focus on its flagship project, the Coalition Internship Program,\u00a0and\u00a0mentioned some of\u00a0the\u00a0remarkable\u00a0alumni. Mrs. Lauer Rice said: "Thank you to each and every one of you for your support for these oftentimes life-changing programs. A very special thank you to the Hungary Initiatives Foundation for\u00a0their continued support in making the Coalition Internship Program such a success." After Mrs. Lauer Rice\u2019s remarks, Mrs. Edith K. Lauer\u00a0introduced Ambassador April H. Foley, the Coalition\u2019s\u00a02017\u00a0honoree,\u00a0praising\u00a0her accomplishments as ambassador, Chair of HIF and skillful business executive, and thanked Ambassador Foley for her continued strong commitment to US-Hungarian relations and her genuine love of their\u00a0homeland.\u00a0Before Mrs. Edith Lauer\u2019s laudation, a\u00a0short video interview with\u00a0Ambassador Foley\u00a0was shown\u00a0(the video is available here). 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Foley,\u00a0U.S. Ambassador to Hungary between 2006 and 2009 and\u00a0Chair of the Board of Trustees of The Hungary Initiatives Foundation (HIF), at\u00a0its\u00a013th\u00a0annual Gala Dinner. His Excellency J\u00e1nos \u00c1der, President of Hungary,\u00a0was Honorary Chairman of the event,\u00a0held\u00a0at the House of Sweden\u00a0in Washington, DC. Coalition\u00a0President Andrea Lauer Rice welcomed the distinguished guests:\u00a0Ambassador April H. Foley and her children and\u00a0their\u00a0spouses,\u00a0Mr. Gifford Foley and Mrs. and Mrs. Katherine Foley, Mr. James Foley and Mrs. Tara Foley,\u00a0and\u00a0Ms. Catherine Foley;\u00a0her\u00a0brother-in-law\u00a0Ambassador Thomas C. Foley and Mrs. Leslie Foley;\u00a0Gala Co-Chairs\u00a0Mrs. Edith Lauer, Chair Emerita of the Coalition, and Mr. John Lauer, Honorary Economic Consul to Hungary;\u00a0Ambassador Kurt Volker, Executive Director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership of Arizona State University;\u00a0Ambassador Richard Swett; Ambassador\u00a0Dr.\u00a0R\u00e9ka Szemerk\u00e9nyi, Hungary\u2019s\u00a0outgoing\u00a0Ambassador to the United States\u00a0and her husband, Mr. Szabolcs I. Ferencz;\u00a0Mrs.\u00a0Annette\u00a0Lantos\u00a0and her daughter\u00a0Mrs. Annette Lantos Tillemann-Dick;\u00a0Ambassador Colleen Bell, former U.S. Ambassador to Hungary;\u00a0Mr. Timothy A. Betts,\u00a0Senior Advisor for Security Negotiations and Agreements at the State Department, former\u00a0DCM in Budapest\u00a0and his wife, Mrs. Helen Betts; Mr. John Lipsky, former\u00a0acting Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund\u00a0and Mrs. Zsuzsa K\u00e1r\u00e1sz Lipsky; Mrs. Anna Smith Lacey, Executive Director of HIF;\u00a0Dr. Tam\u00e1s Fellegi, former\u00a0Minister of National Development\u00a0in Hungary and Board Member of HIF;\u00a0and Mr. Damon Wilson, Executive Vice President at the Atlantic Council. Other prominent guests included:\u00a0Mr. Max Teleki, President Emeritus of the Coalition and his parents\u00a0Mr. and Mrs. Istv\u00e1n and Beatriz Teleki;\u00a0Ms. Alice Balla, President of the Hungarian Club of Colorado; Rev. Emese Asztalos,\u00a0associate pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Daytona Beach\u00a0and Ms. Piros Pazaurek;\u00a0Mrs. \u00c9va Kov\u00e1cs\u00a0of the\u00a0St.\u00a0Stephen Catholic Community in Washington;\u00a0Mrs. Joe Anne Barnhart, Executive Director of\u00a0the Magyar Foundation of North America\u00a0and her colleagues;\u00a0Mr. Matt Mowers,\u00a0Senior White House Advisor\u00a0and Ms.\u00a0Cassie Spodak; Mr. Ryan Williams,\u00a0Senior Vice\u00a0President of\u00a0Communications\u00a0at FP1 Strategies and Ms. Annie Starke. Also in attendance were Coalition board members Zsolt Szekeres, Treasurer;\u00a0Coalition Vice President\u00a0Mr. Stefan\u00a0Fedor and\u00a0Mrs. Erika Fedor, founders of the American Hungarian Heritage House; Coalition Vice President Csilla Grauzer, Honorary Consul of Hungary in Minnesota\u00a0and President of the Minnesota Hungarians; Coalition Chairman of the Board Dr. \u00c1gnes Virga, President of the Hungarian Society of Massachusetts;\u00a0Mrs. Anne Bader; Mr. Gabe Rozsa, Chairman of the Kossuth Foundation; and Mr. Julius Varallyay. Many\u00a0Embassy of Hungary staff\u00a0were also in attendance:\u00a0Mr. Zsolt Hetesy,\u00a0Charg\u00e9 d'affaires;\u00a0Brigadier General Zsolt S\u00e1ndor, Defense, Military and Air Attach\u00e9\u00a0and Mrs. Katalin S\u00e1ndor;\u00a0Ms. Krisztina Osv\u00e1t,\u00a0Counselor\u00a0in charge of outreach to the Hungarian American community; Ms. Dorottya M\u00e1rtonffy-Nagy, Commercial and Economic Attach\u00e9;\u00a0Mr. P\u00e9ter Gyombolai,\u00a0Counselor, Hungarian Diaspora\u00a0Liaison\u00a0and Mrs. Eszter Gyombolai;\u00a0Mr. B\u00e9la Gedeon,\u00a0First Secretary, Political and Public Affairs Officer\u00a0and Dr. M\u00f3nika Varga. After\u00a0her welcoming remarks\u00a0Mrs. Lauer Rice\u00a0together with\u00a0Max Teleki\u00a0and \u00c1gnes Virga announced a surprise award ceremony\u00a0on behalf of the Board of Directors and members\u00a0of the Coalition,\u00a0they\u00a0expressed\u00a0their\u00a0gratitude to\u00a0outgoing Ambassador\u00a0Dr. R\u00e9ka Szemerk\u00e9nyi for her dedicated and inspired service, representing the best interests of Hungary as Ambassador to the United States in 2015-2017, and for her genuine interest and warm friendship for the Hungarian diaspora in the United States. In accepting the award,\u00a0Ambassador\u00a0Dr. R\u00e9ka Szemerk\u00e9nyi\u00a0thanked the Coalition for its friendship and said. \"One of the\u00a0greatest\u00a0assets we have in Hungarian-American relations is this fantastic Hungarian-American community across\u00a0the United States;\u00a0I very much appreciate your friendship, your openness in\u00a0receiving\u00a0me and I really hope that this strong friendship that we have built will continue.\" Next,\u00a0Mrs. Lauer Rice reported on the latest developments of\u00a0the Memory Project initiative,\u00a0launched\u00a0in 2016\u00a0by Mrs. Lauer Rice and\u00a0R\u00e9ka Pigniczky,\u00a0Coalition\u00a0member and documentary filmmaker,\u00a0and showed\u00a0a\u00a0compilation video entitled 'What are your first memories of emigration?'. The Memory Project\u00a0commemorates\u00a0the spirit of 1956\u00a0through\u00a0100\u00a0video\u00a0interviews with\u00a0Hungarian-Americans who were witnesses and participants in the 1956\u00a0events. In her remarks after dinner, Mrs. Lauer Rice presented\u00a0the major achievements of the Coalition\u00a0in 2016,\u00a0highlighting\u00a0the organization\u2019s 25th\u00a0anniversary and the commemorations of the 60th\u00a0anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956\u00a0last year\u00a0which involved\u00a0Hungarian-American communities\u00a0across the United States. She emphasized the importance\u00a0of\u00a0the Coalition\u2019s\u00a0ongoing\u00a0educational\u00a0programs, with a special focus on its flagship project, the Coalition Internship Program,\u00a0and\u00a0mentioned some of\u00a0the\u00a0remarkable\u00a0alumni. Mrs. Lauer Rice said: \"Thank you to each and every one of you for your support for these oftentimes life-changing programs. A very special thank you to the Hungary Initiatives Foundation for\u00a0their continued support in making the Coalition Internship Program such a success.\" After Mrs. Lauer Rice\u2019s remarks, Mrs. Edith K. Lauer\u00a0introduced Ambassador April H. Foley, the Coalition\u2019s\u00a02017\u00a0honoree,\u00a0praising\u00a0her accomplishments as ambassador, Chair of HIF and skillful business executive, and thanked Ambassador Foley for her continued strong commitment to US-Hungarian relations and her genuine love of their\u00a0homeland.\u00a0Before Mrs. Edith Lauer\u2019s laudation, a\u00a0short video interview with\u00a0Ambassador Foley\u00a0was shown\u00a0(the video is available here). In accepting the award,\u00a0Ambassador Foley\u00a0thanked everybody for their attendance, with a special recognition to her children and friends from Waccabuc, NY and Smith College, and emphasized\u00a0her\u00a0love of Hungary and its culture by saying: \"My love affair with Hungary started in 2006 and it is just never going away: it has been such a source of joy and fulfillment in my life\".   May 21, 2017 | Washington, DC\u00a0 Source: hacusa.org  ","og_url":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/annual-gala-honors-ambassador-april-h-foley\/","og_site_name":"Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BocskaiRadio","article_published_time":"2017-05-27T16:01:43+00:00","og_image":[{"width":600,"height":401,"url":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/KAP_HAC_Gala_2017-133.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@BocskaiRadio","twitter_site":"@BocskaiRadio","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/annual-gala-honors-ambassador-april-h-foley\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/annual-gala-honors-ambassador-april-h-foley\/"},"author":{"name":"Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3","@id":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/8bcb55a841d5aae0d74dd77c82785eeb"},"headline":"Annual Gala Honors Ambassador April H. 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