| September 20 | Phillip Butler, Ph.D., a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for eight years Tragedy to Triumph |
| October 4 | Ms. Beverly Fuchs, Director of Group Services, Senior Coordinating Council of Palo Alto The Graying of America |
| October 18 | Ms. Joan Fontaine, Academy Award-winning actress The Golden Years of Hollywood |
| November 1 | Ms. Loretta Green, reporter/columnist, Peninsula Times Tribune A Reporter’s Notebook: A Look at the Human Angle |
| November 15 | Mr. Christopher Matthews, Washington Bureau Chief, San Francisco Examiner The Significance of Last Week’s Election |
| December 6 | Dr. Loren Acton, astronaut/scientist on the space shuttle Challenger The Ecstasy and Agony of Spaceflight |
Yearly Archives: 1988
Winter/Spring 1988
| January 5 | Mr. Lawrence D. Dabms, Executive Director, 1988 Metropolitan Transportation Commission Gridlock! Remember When ‘Getting There’ was Half the Fun? |
| January 19 | Ms. Irene Kampen, Author and Humorist It’s a Funny World. |
| February 2 | W. Mark Fruin, Professor of Business and Economic History, California State University, Hayward Inside Toshiba: Industrial Work in Modern Japan. |
| February 16 | The Honorable Jean Moorhead Duffy, former Assembly woman, California State Legislature Laws and Sausage–Making Them Isn’t a Pretty Sight. |
| March 1 | William Paterson, veteran actor with the American Conservatory Theatre My 40 Years in Regional Theatre. |
| March 15 | Mervyn F. Silverman, M.D., President, American Foundation for AIDS Research AIDS: Causes, Cure, Prevention. |
| April 5 | Harold Gilliam, author and environmental and futurist columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle Carmel–An Environmental Pioneer. |
| April 19 | Marianne Alireza, author and former wife of Saudi Arabian diplomat At the Drop of a Veil. |
| May 3 | Marva Collins, educator and founder o Chicago’s Westside Preparatory School Relighting the Candle of Excellence. |
| May 17 | Elie Abel, Stanford University Professor of Journalism and former network news broadcaster Who is Managing the News? |
| June 7 | Scott Rice, Professor of English at California State University, San Jose It Was a Dark and Stormy Night… How Bad Writing Can Bring Out the Best. |