Past Speakers

2008    Sandra Day O'Connor, former Supreme Court justice 
2007    Harold Prince, American theatrical producer and director
2006    Bruce Gordon '68, former president of NAACP
2005    Fred Fielding '61, White House counsel, served on 9/11 Commission
2004    David W. Hartman '72, first blind person to graduate from medical school
2003    Honorable Marjorie O. Rendell, judge, First Lady of PA
2002    Senator George Mitchell, former Senator of Maine
2001    Mel Martinez, former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
2000    John Hope Franklin, historian
1999    Mary Frances Berry, professor
1998    Richard D. Schultz, Exec Dir of U.S. Olympic Committee
1997    Bill Cosby, actor, comedian
1996    Jonathan Spence, historian
1995    Richard Riley, U.S. Secretary of Education
1994    Andrew Rooney, TV news correspondent
1993    Randall Robinson, Exec Dir of TransAfrica
1992    Noam Chomsky, political activist
1991    James McPherson, Pulitzer Prize winner, historian
1990    Betty Williams, winner of Nobel Prize for Peace in 1977
1989    Charles E. Glassick, former president of Gettysburg College
1988    Joyce Carol Oates, author
1987    Garrison Keillor, humorist
1986    Joyce Brothers, psychologist
1985    John Houseman, actor
1984    Margaret Kuhn, National Convener of the Gray Panthers
1983    Gov. William Scranton, former Governor of Pennsylvania
1981    Isaac Asimov, scientist
1980    Russell W. Peterson, CEO of National Audubon Society
1979    Joe Paterno, Penn State University football coach
1978    Judge John Sirica, United States District Court for District of Columbia
1977    Tom Pettit, race car driver
1976    Shana Alexander, journalist
1975    James D. St.Clair, attorney
1974    Albert H. Quie, former U.S. Congressman
1973    Carol K. Bellamy ‘63, former N.Y. Senator
1972    Glenn Olds, former president of Kent State University
1971    William F. Buckley, author
1970    Hugh Scott, former U.S. Senator of PA
1969    James A. Colston, former president of Bronx Community College
1968    Charles Lucet, former French Ambassador to U.S.
1967    Harold Brown
1966    Sanford S. Atwood
1965    Harold Brayman
1964    A. G. D. Wiles, former president of Newberry College
1963    John S. Rice, U.S. Ambassador to Netherlands
1959    Arthur S. Flemming, former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare