Year
|
Speaker
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Area of Notability
|
Sponsor/ Notes
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1963
|
Harry Golden
|
Author
|
|
1963
|
Margaret Mead
|
Anthropologist
|
*University Centennial speaker
|
1963
|
Edward Teller
|
Physicist
|
*University Centennial speaker
|
1963
|
Detlev Bronk
|
Physicist
|
*University Centennial speaker
|
1963
|
Howard Mumford Jones
|
Author, Pulitzer Prize winner
|
*University Centennial speaker
|
1964
|
Braj Kumar Nehru
|
Indian diplomat
|
|
1964–1965
|
John Ciardi
|
Poet
|
|
1964–1965
|
Charles Malik
|
Lebanese politician
|
|
1965–1966
|
William O. Douglas
|
Supreme Court Justice
|
|
1965–1966
|
David Schoenbrun
|
Media: CBS correspondent
|
|
1965–1966
|
Sen. Everett Dirksen
|
U.S. Senator, Minority Leader
|
|
1965–1966
|
Sen. Wayne Morse
|
U.S. Senator
|
|
1965–1966
|
Eric Sevareid
|
Media: CBS correspondent
|
|
1965–1966
|
Art Buchwald
|
Author, Pulitzer Prize winner
|
|
1966–1967
|
Bennett Cerf
|
Media: publisher
|
|
1966–1967
|
Robert Maynard Hutchins
|
|
|
1966–1967
|
Saul Alinsky
|
Community organizer
|
|
1966–1967
|
George Lincoln Rockwell
|
U.S. Nazi leader
|
|
1966–1967
|
Byron White
|
Supreme Court Justice
|
|
1966–1967
|
Baroness Maria von Trapp
|
Entertainer
|
|
1966–1967
|
Sir Patrick Dean
|
British Ambassador to U.S.
|
|
1966–1967
|
Sen. William Fulbright
|
U.S. Senator
|
|
1967–1968
|
Bishop James Pike
|
Civil rights activist, religious figure
|
|
1967–1968
|
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
|
Civil rights activist, religious figure
|
|
1967–1968
|
Dick Gregory
|
Civil rights activist, comedian
|
|
1967–1968
|
Buckminister Fuller
|
Architect
|
|
1967–1968
|
Norman Cousins
|
Media: editor
|
|
1968–1969
|
Dr. Benjamin Spock
|
Health
|
|
1968–1969
|
Allen Dulles
|
Intelligence: former CIA Director
|
|
1968–1969
|
James Farmer
|
Civil rights activist
|
|
1968–1969
|
Milan Machovec
|
Czech Marxist theorist
|
|
1968–1969
|
Sen. George McGovern
|
U.S. Senator
|
*Symposium on World Population
|
1969–1970
|
Arthur C. Clarke
|
Author
|
|
1969–1970
|
George Plimpton
|
Author
|
*Union News & Views Committee
|
1970–1971
|
Akabar Abdul Haqq
|
Religious figure
|
|
1970–1971
|
Rep. Shirley Chisholm
|
Congresswoman
|
|
1970–1971
|
V. K. Krishna Menon
|
Indian minister
|
|
1970–1971
|
Bill Russell
|
Athletics
|
|
1971–1972
|
Edwin O. Reischauer
|
|
|
1971–1972
|
John A. Hannah
|
Head of USAID
|
|
1971–1972
|
Samuel Jackson
|
Presidential aide
|
|
1971–1972
|
Sen. Birch Bayh
|
U.S. Senator
|
|
1972–1973
|
Sen. Fred R. Harris
|
U.S. Senator
|
|
1972–1973
|
Rev. Troy Perry
|
Civil rights activist, religious figure
|
|
1972–1973
|
Sen. Frank Church
|
U.S. Senator
|
|
1972–1973
|
Betty Furness
|
|
|
1972–1973
|
Dolf Droge
|
White House consultant, musician
|
|
1972–1973
|
Julian Bond
|
Civil rights activist, politician
|
|
1973–1974
|
Rep. Patsy Mink
|
Congresswoman
|
|
1973–1974
|
Theodore Koop
|
Media: CBS executive
|
|
1973–1974
|
Gordon Parks
|
Artist
|
*Gordon Parks Festival
|
1973–1974
|
Denis Healey
|
British politician
|
|
1973–1974
|
Bernie Travis
|
Entertainer: comedian
|
|
1973–1974
|
Godfrey Cambridge
|
Entertainer: comedian, director
|
|
1973–1974
|
Gene Roddenberry
|
Entertainer: screenwriter
|
|
1974–1975
|
Dick Gregory
|
Civil rights activist, comedian
|
NOTE: second appearance
|
1974–1975
|
Ralph Abernathy
|
Civil rights activist, religious figure
|
|
1974–1975
|
Fred Thompson
|
Attorney: Senate Watergate Committee
|
|
1975–1976
|
James McCain
|
Kansas State University President
|
|
1975–1976
|
Julian Bond
|
Civil rights activist, politician
|
NOTE: second appearance
|
1975–1976
|
Estelle Ramey
|
Feminist
|
|
1976–1977
|
Edward Albee
|
Author, playwright
|
|
1976–1977
|
Jonathan Kozol
|
Author
|
|
1976–1977
|
Sen. Mark Hatfield
|
U.S. Senator
|
|
1976–1977
|
Garrett Hardin
|
|
|
1976–1977
|
Betty Friedan
|
Feminist
|
|
1976–1977
|
I. F. Stone
|
Journalist
|
|
1977–1978
|
Jerry Apodaca
|
Governor of New Mexico
|
|
1977–1978
|
Clive Barnes
|
Media: Arts critic
|
|
1977–1978
|
Alex Haley
|
Author
|
|
1978–1979
|
Amory Lovins
|
Environmental scientist
|
|
1978–1979
|
Gale W. McGee
|
|
|
1979–1980
|
Rep. Walter E. Fauntroy
|
Congressman
|
|
1979–1980
|
Jessica Savitch
|
Media: NBC anchorwoman
|
|
1979–1980
|
Bella Abzug
|
Feminist
|
|
1979–1980
|
Robert Shaw
|
Entertainer: conductor
|
|
1979–1980
|
Erwin Knoll
|
Journalist
|
|
1979–1980
|
Maggie Kuhn
|
Civil rights activist
|
|
1980–1981
|
William H. Webster
|
Intelligence: FBI Director
|
|
September 10, 1980
|
Julian Bond
|
Civil rights activist, politician
|
NOTE: third appearance
|
October 22, 1980
|
Germaine Greer
|
Feminist
|
|
November 2, 1980
|
Ian Smith
|
|
|
November 20, 1980
|
Howard Bird
|
Businessman
|
|
February 2, 1981
|
Barry Blechman
|
Intelligence
|
|
February 26, 1981
|
John Brooks Slaughter
|
|
|
March 8, 1981
|
Penny Lennoux
|
Author
|
|
March 10, 1981
|
Frances FitzGerald
|
Author, Pulitzer Prize winner
|
|
April 12, 1981
|
William W. Winpisinger
|
labor activist
|
|
September 21, 1981
|
William A. Rusher
|
Media: publisher
|
|
October 19, 1981
|
Ralph Nader
|
Consumer advocate
|
|
1982–1983
|
Richard Reeves
|
Author
|
|
1982–1983
|
Frank Church
|
U.S. Senator (Ret.)
|
NOTE: second appearance
|
1982–1983
|
Paul Sweezy
|
Economist
|
|
February 20, 1984
|
Rep. Stephen J. Solarz
|
Congressman
|
|
November 16, 1984
|
George Wald
|
Scientist, Nobel Laureate
|
|
January 21, 1985
|
Gwendolyn Brooks
|
Poet, Pulitzer Prize winner
|
|
February 19, 1985
|
Rep. Howard Wolpe
|
Congressman
|
|
October 31, 1985
|
Robert Burgess
|
Biologist
|
|
November 18, 1985
|
Ariel Dorfman
|
Author
|
|
January 19, 1986
|
Benjamin Hooks
|
Civil rights activist
|
|
February 18, 1986
|
Henry Cisneros
|
Mayor of San Antonio, Texas
|
|
1986
|
George F. Carrier
|
Mathematician
|
|
October 14, 1986
|
Dennis Brutus
|
Poet
|
|
November 19, 1986
|
Jules Feiffer
|
Cartoonist, Pulitzer Prize winner
|
|
February 19, 1987
|
J. Anthony Lukas
|
Author, Pulitzer Prize winner
|
|
March 5, 1987/6
|
Frances Moore Lappé
|
Author
|
|
April 16, 1987/6
|
Joseph Heller
|
Author
|
|
September 16, 1987
|
Michael McElroy
|
Scientist
|
|
November 4, 1987
|
Michael Kammen
|
Historian, Pulitzer Prize winner
|
|
November 17, 1987
|
Noam Chomsky
|
|
|
January 21, 1988
|
Lerone Bennett, Jr.
|
Author
|
|
April 1987/8
|
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
|
Composer, Pulitzer Prize winner
|
|
January 26, 1996
|
Patricia Russell-McCloud
|
Public speaker
|
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