| January 3 | Mr. John Ehrlichman, former Assistant for Domestic Affairs to President Richard Nixon Rx for the New President |
| January 17 | Peter J. Duignan, Ph.D., Director of the African and Middle East programs, Hoover Institution The Future of Southern Africa |
| February 7 | Ms. Kay Mills, Los Angeles Times editorial writer How Female Reporters have Influenced the News. |
| February 21 | Mr. Joel Kotkin, West Coast Editor, Inc. Magazine The Third Century: America’s Resurgence in the Asian Era |
| March 7 | Mr. Orville Schell, author and New Yorker writer Discos and Democracy: China in the Throes of Reform |
| March 21 | Prof. Ken Bruce, De Anza College history department The ’20s: Beginning of the Modern Era |
| April 4 | Dr. W. Glenn Campbell, Director of Hoover Institution, Stanford University The Role of Think Tanks in American Public Policy |
| April 18 | Prof. William M. Brinner, Near Eastern Studies Department, UC Berkeley The Middle East Cauldron |
| May 2 | Prof. Diane Middlebrook, English Department, Stanford University Finding the Story in a Life: The Art of Biography |
| May 16 | Mr. Dave McElbatton, Eyewitness News Anchorman, KPIX, Channel 5, San Francisco Inside TV News’ 89 |
| June 6 | Ms. Ellen Goodman, Associate Editor and Columnist, The Boston Globe At Large… Commenting on a Complex Society |
