| Year |
Speaker |
Area of Notability |
Sponsor/ Notes |
| 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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