| January 9 | John Farquar, M.D., Director, Stanford Center for Research on Disease and Prevention The American Way of Life Need Not be Hazardous to Your Health. |
| January 23 | John Shoven, Ph.D., Chairman Department of Economics, Stanford University Prospects for the U. S. Economy. |
| February 6 | Reese Erlich, Professor of Journalism, San Francisco State; Freelance Journalist,
What Lies Ahead for Chile? |
| February 20 | Constance Casey, Book Critic, San Jose Mercury News What’s Worth Reading? What’s Worth Reviewing? |
| March 6 | Gray Brechin, Cityscapes columnist and contributing editor, SF FOCUS magazine Victorian Estates of the Peninsula. |
| March 20 | Jim Murray, Former Police Chief, Milpitas; Visting Lecturer, Chinese People’s University of Public Security, Beijing A Policeman’s View of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. |
| April 3 | Ramona Rockway, Opera Director and Coach; Wendy 4-lartman-Carr, Soprano, and Tenor to -be -announced An Imaginary Tour of the Coming Opera Season, with Song and Backstage Reminisences. |
| April 17 | George Breslauer, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, Chairman, Center for Slavic and East European Studies, Univ. of California, Berkeley Gorbachev and Eastern Europe. |
| May 1 | Marc Reisner, Author, Cadillac Desert Is the Water Crisis Real? |
| May 15 | Tom Cronin, Ph.D., Professor, Colorado College Leadership in America. |
| June 5 | Robert Maynard, Editor, Oakland Tribune Some Thoughts on the Media. |
