Past Speakers

• Yo-Yo Ma – 2017
• Condoleezza Rice – May 14, 2015
• David Brooks and Mark Shields – April 7, 2011
• F.W. de Klerk – October 20, 2008
• Wynton Marsalis – March 21, 2005
• Itzhak Perlman with Rohan de Silva – September 20, 2004
• Lance Armstrong – November 5, 2003
• Denyce Graves – September 13, 2002
• Cokie and Steve Roberts – April 16, 2001
• Clarence Page – March 22, 2000
• Dr. James Watson – October 4, 1999
• Senator Bill Bradley – February 4, 1999
• Sherrill Milnes – January 21-23, 1998
• General Colin L. Powell – April 24, 1996
• Lady Margaret Thatcher – February 7, 1994
• Dr. C. Everett Koop – January 21, 1993
• Leonard Pennario – October 25, 1991
• Costa Rica’s former President Oscar Arias Sanchez – March 18, 1991
• Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr. – February 1, 1990
• Tip O’Neill – October 10, 1988
• Casper W. Weinberger – May 3, 1988
• Julian Bream – November 11, 1987
• Admiral Stansfield Turner – February 26, 1987
• Anna Moffo – October 24, 1986
• Dr. Jeane Kirkpatrick – September 16, 1985
• Charles Kuralt – October 18, 1984
• Thomas J. Peters – January 22, 1984
• Shlomo Mintz – April 28, 1983
• Louis Rukeyser – April 13, 1982
• Dr. Henry Kissinger – March 9, 1981
• Leonard Pennario – March 6, 1980
• Gerald Ford – March 28, 1979