2018 – Bruce Bustard ’76 – “We the People: Stories from Documents in the National Archives” |
2017 – Richard D. Cochran – “Designing Urban Areas that Nurture Healthy People” |
2016 – Richard Hyde – “Reach and Grasp” |
2015 – Jo Ann Davidson – “A Spotlight on Ohio” |
2014 – Candice Millard – “Finding James Garfield” |
2013 – Molly Corbett Broad – “Higher Education at a Crossroads” |
2012 – Gordon Gund – “Some Lessons Learned” |
2011 – David Franklin – “The Director’s Vision for the Next 100 Years” |
2010 – David L. Aaron – “Current Development in the Middle East” |
2009 – Michael Gilligan – “Philanthropy in Times of Stress” |
2008 – Anil Singh-Molares – “A Liberal Arts Education in a Changing World” |
2007 – Eric D. Fingerhut – “Private College with a Public Purpose” |
2006 – Bruce Hoffman – “al Quaida: In Retreat or on the Move?” |
2005 – Kenneth D. Ackerman – “Garfield: The Man Behind the Legacy” |
2004 – Dean A. Scarborough – “Intimate Learning, Global Reach: The Challenge of Managing a Global Business” |
2003 – David T. Abbott – “Spiderwebs, Failure, and a New Generation of Leaders” |
2002 – J. Kevin McMahon – “The Art of the Arts” |
2001 – Jeanette Grasselli Brown – “Higher Education in a Time of Change” |
2000 – Jane Green Schaller – “Child Health, Human Health, and World Stability” |
1999 – Governor Bob Taft – “The Importance of Learning” |
1998 – David R. Anderson – “The Lesson of Histories” |
1997 – William W. Falsgraf – “The Federal Judiciary – Guardians of the Grail or Leftist Activists?” |
1996 – David L. Brennan – “The Cleveland Scholarship Program” |
1995 – Thomas V. Chema – “Sports, Stadia, the Urban Economy – A League of Their Own” |
1994 – Lester E. Coleman – “Personal Leadership: First Things First” |
1993 – Joseph M. Clapp – “Heroes” |
1992 – Richard H. Ekman – “Maxims of Change” |
1991 – W. R. Timken, Jr. – “Gold Eggs and Other Myths of American Business” |
1990 – Paul F. Sharp – “The ‘Q Factor’ in Higher Education” |
1989 – Steven A. Minter – “Thinking Globally, Acting Locally” |
1988 – Allan C. Holmes – “A Look at Cleveland and Northeast Ohio – Past, Present, and Future” |
1987 – William W. Falsgraf – “Lawyers in America – How Many are Too Many?” |
1986 – Robert J. White, M.D. – “A Mystery Inside a Puzzle: Russian and Chinese Medicine” |
1985 – Russell Aiuto – “Genetics and the Law” |
1984 – Andrew J. Stofan – “NASA: Impact of an Ideal” |
1983 – Robert O. Fishel – “Baseball in Today’s Society” |
1982 – James A. (Dolph) Norton – “We Will Make Our Future” |
1981 – Eleanor Jammal – “Service Around the World – A Woman’s Role” |
1980 – Oliver Schroeder, Jr. – “James Abram Garfield – A Century Later” |
1979 – Thomas W. Mastin – “Given Enough Time, Anything Can Happen” |
1978 – Donald L. Perris – “The Future of Television” |
1977 – Fletcher Byrom – “Reflections on Society and the Future” |
1976 – Max Lerner – “Third Century America” |
1975 – Hon. C. William O’Neill – “Reflections on the Modern Judiciary” |
1974 – Stephen H. Fuller – “Anatomy of Organizational Survival” |
October 1973 – Ralph M. Besse – “Nuclear Power and the Energy Crisis” |
January 1973 – Harold E. Davis – “Garfield: The Scholar in Politics” |