2003 - Ralph Nader
Consumer Advocate and former Presidential candidate 2002 - Congressman Tom DeLay
House Majority Whip and Representative, 22nd District, Texas
2001 - Barry McCaffrey
Former Director, White House Office of National Drug Control
Policy
1998 - The Hon. Lech Walesa
Former President of Poland
1996 - The Rt. Hon. The Baroness Thatcher, L.G., O.M., F.R.S.
Former Prime Minister of Great Britain
1993 - The Hon. Robert S. Strauss
Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia
1992 - Mikhail Gorbachev
Former Soviet President
1992 - Peter H. Raven
Biologist, Director, Missouri Botanical Garden
1990 - Claiborne Pell
U.S. Senator & Chairman of the Committee on Foreign
Relations
1987 - The Rt. Rev. and Rt. Hon. Graham Leonard
Bishop of London
1987 - Paul Ricoeur
Philosopher/Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago
1986 - George Bush
Vice President of the United States
1983 - William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
1983 - Caspar Weinberger
U.S. Secretary of Defense
1982 - Edward Heath
Former Prime Minister of Great Britain
1980 - Clare Boothe Luce
Former American Ambassador to Italy and member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
1980 - Griffin B. Bell
Former Attorney General of the United States
1977 - Gerald R. Ford
President of the United States
1977 - Ardeshir Zahedi
Ambassador from Iran
1976 - Clarence M. Kelley
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
1974 - J. William Fulbright
U.S. Senator & Chairman of the Committee on Foreign
Relations
1972 - General Avraham Yoffee
Director, Nature Reserves Authority. General Israeli Army
1972 - The Rt. Hon. Robert H. Finch
Counselor to the President. Former Lieutenant Governor of
California and Secretary of H.E.W.
1971 - The Rt. Hon. The Lord Harlech
Former British Ambassador to the United States and
television executive in Great Britain
1968 - The Rt. Hon. The Lord Snow
Author, Scientist and Teacher, London, England
1968 - Dr. Franc L. McCluer
Former President of Westminster College
President Emeritus of Lindenwood College
1967 - Hubert H. Humphrey
Vice President of the United States
1966 - Kim Jong Pil
Chairman, Democratic Republic Party of Korea
1965 - Joseph C. Wilson
President of Xerox Corporation, Rochester, New York
1965 - Andre Philip
Former Minister of Finance in France and leading
international trade expert, St. Cloud, France
1964 - Sir George Paget Thomson
Nobel Prize winning physicist for work in electrons. Past
President British Association for the Advancement of
Science, Cambridge, England
1963 - M. Max Kohnstamm
Vice President of Action Committee for the United States of
Europe, Brussels, Belgium
1962 - Frederick R. Kappel
Chairman of the Board, American Telephone & Telegraph
Company, New York City
1962 - Henry R. Luce
Editor, in Chief of Time, Life, et al, New York City
1961 - Dr. Lin Yutang
Noted Chinese author, New York City
1960 - The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Hailsham, Q.C., Lord Privy Seal
London, England
1958 - Dr. Edward McCrady
Vice Chancellor & President of the University of the South
1957 - William Yandell Elliott
Williams Professor of Government at Harvard University
1956 - Stanley N. Barnes
Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
1954 - Guy E. Snavely
Former Executive Secretary of the Association of American
Colleges
1954 - Harry S. Truman
Former President of the United States
1953 - Charles H. Malik
Ambassador of Lebanon
1950 - Roscoe Pound
Dean Emeritus, Harvard Law School
1949 - J.C. Penney
Merchant
1946 - Sir Winston Churchill
Former Prime Minister of Great Britain
1942 - Samuel Guy Inman
Lecturer on Latin American Relations at University of
Pennsylvania and Yale University
1941 - Count Carlo Sforza of Italy
Former Ambassador to China, Turkey, France, and Italian
Minister of Foreign Affairs
1940 - T.V. Smith
Member of Congress and Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Chicago
1939 - Francis B. Sayre
Former High Commissioner to the Philippines
1938 - John Langdon Davies
London
1937 - Oscar D. Skelton
Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs for Dominion of Canada