Speakers listed by year.
Speech title, if known, is listed in quotations.
1953 Charles Malik, Minister of Lebanon. 02/22/1953
1954 Ethan A.H. Shepley, Acting Chancellor. 02/22/1954
1955 Earl Warren, US Supreme Court Justice, "Blessings of Liberty." 02/19/1955
1956 Ethan A. H. Shepley, Chancellor; and W. Victor Weir, WU Federation President. 02/23/1956
1957 Ethan A. H. Shepley, Chancellor; and James M. McDouglas, Chair of WU Board of Directors. 02/20/1957
1958 Charles W. Bryan Jr., President Standard-Pullman and member of WU Board of Directors, "Alumni-University Relationships." 02/21/1958
1959 Huston Smith, Professor of Philosophy at MIT, "A Time to Praise the Soul of Man." 02/22/1959
1960 Abraham L. Sachar, President of Brandeis University, "Debasing Our Academic Coinage." 02/21/1960
1961 Fannie Hurst, author, "What a Novelist Thinks About." 02/26/1961
1962 James E. Webb, administrator of NASA. 02/24/1962
1963 C.P. Snow, "Science and the American Dream." 02/23/1963
1964 Hodding Carter, "Tale of Two Continents." 02/22/1964
1965 Ernest Havemann, "Why Johnny Can't Write," (Founders Week 1965). 02/17/1965
1965 James F. Oater Jr., "Importance of a Liberal Education," (Founders Day 1965). 02/19/1965
1966 Frederick Deming, "Updating Our International Monetary System." 02/16/1966
1966 Roger Blough, "Defending Freedom with Freedom." 02/19/1966
1967 John W. Gardner. 02/25/67
1968 Arthur Kornberg, "Recent Revolution in Biology." 03/01/1968
1969 Reverend Paul C. Reinert, President of St. Louis University. 02/22/1969
1970 Jerome H. Holland, President of Hampton Institute and US Ambassador Designate to Sweden, "The Dilemma in Urban America." 02/28/1970
1971 George Mylonas, Archaeologist and Professor Emeritus. 02/20/1971
1972 William H. Danforth, Chancellor of Washington University - St. Louis. 02/26/1972
1973 Howard J. Morgens, Chairman and CEO of Procter and Gamble Co., "Business and the Universities - a call for mutual understanding." 02/10/1973
1974 R. Buckminster Fuller. 03/02/1974
1975 Art Buchwald, "Monologue." 03/01/1975
1976 David Brinkley. 03/06/76
1977 Tom Brokaw, "Good News; Bad News." 10/08/1977
1978 William Webster. 10/14/78
1979 Morley Safer, "Television News." 10/13/1979
1980 Pearl Bailey. 10/11/1980
1981 Abba Eban, "Prospects for Peace in the Middle East, Reality or Fantasy." 10/10/1981
1982 Kurt Waldheim, former Secretary-General UN. 10/9/1982
1983 Karl Carstens, President of Federal Republic of Germany. 10/7/1983
1984 Mark Russell, political satirist. 10/13/1984
1985 William McLinn, actor, "Evening with Mark Twain." 10/12/1985
1986 Marshall Loeb, economic and financial journalist. 10/25/1986
1987 Ted Koppel, ABC television news anchor. 11/14/1987
1988 Art Buchwald, Pulitzer Prize-winner and syndicated columnist. 10/15/1988
1989 Beverly Sills, soprano and President of New York City Opera. 10/21/1989
1990 William Safire, Pulitzer Prize-winner and columnist. 10/13/1990
1991 William H. Webster, former director CIA and FBI. 11/16/1991
1992 Thomas F.Eagleton, L.L.B., former US Senator and University Professor of Public Affairs. 10/1/1992
1993 John C. Danforth, US Senator. 10/30/1993
1994 Paula Zahn, CBS television news anchor. 10/29/1994
1995 Jeane Kirkpatrick, former US representative to the UN. 10/28/1995
1996 Dave Barry, humorist and author. 11/9/1996
1997 Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. 10/24/1997
1998 General Colin Powell, former chair of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. 11/07/1998
1999 George H. W. Bush, former President of the United States. 10/30/1999
2000 Norman Schwarzkopf, General, US Army. 11/03/2000
2001 Bill Bradley, former US Senator. 10/27/2001
2002 Tom Brokaw, NBC television news anchor. 11/09/2002
2003 Bob Dole, former US Senator. 09/20/2003
2004 Chris Mathews, MSNBC television news. 10/02/2004
2005 Rudolph Guiliani, former mayor of New York city. 11/05/2005
2006 John Major, former Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. 11/04/2006
2007 James Carville; and Mary Matalin. 11/03/2007
2008 Jon Meacham, editor of NewsWeek. 11/08/2008
2009 David McCullough, historian.11/07/2009
2010 David McCullough, historian.11/06/2010
2011 Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian. 11/5/2011
2012 Robert Gates, former U.S. Secretary of Defense and former director of the CIA. 11/3/2012
2013 Jon Huntsman Jr., former U.S. ambassador to China and former Utah governor. 11/2/2013
2014 Thomas Friedman, New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning author, 11/8/2014
2015 Walter Isaacson, president and chief executive officer The Aspen Institute, 11/7/2015 2015
2016 Nina Totenberg, National Public Radio legal affairs correspondent, 11/5/2016
For further information, see the listing of alumni awardees and Robert S. Brookings Award recipients recognized at Founders' Day events.
