| February 3 | Hank Dekker, Ocean sailor “Unseen Horizons: A Blind Sailor’s Odyssey” |
| February 17 | Daniel R. Walters, Political columnist-Sacramento Bee, author “The New California: Facing the 21st Century” |
| March 3 | Mitch Snyder, National spokesman for the homeless “The Plight of the Homeless” |
| March 17 | Dick Carlson, Vice-President of QED Research “Can We Compete in the World Economy?” |
| April 7 | Dr. William Mahrt and the Early Music Singers, Professor of Music, Stanford University “The Social Function of Renaissance Music” |
| April 21 | Dr. Donald Johanson, Director, Institute of Human Origins, paleoanthropologist “The Origins of Humankind” |
| May 5 | Professor Peter Smith, Professor of Political Science and History, University of California at San Diego “U.S.-Mexican Relations – Prospects for the 1990’s” |
| May 19 | Justice Stanley Mosk, Justice state supreme court “Inside the California Supreme Court” |
| June 2 | Helen Thomas, UPI White House Bureau Chief “Covering the White House from Kennedy to Reagan” |
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Fall 1986
| September 16 | Dr Ken T. Jowitt Professor of Political Sciance, U.C. Berkeley
Gorbachev’s First Year |
| October 7 | Dr. David Long, SJ, Director of the Near East and South Asia Division of the State Department Office of Counter Terrorism and Emergency Planning
International Terrorism: In Search of a Response |
| October 21 | Dr. David N. Ilchert, District Director, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service; with Reverand Robert McKenzie, Chairman of the Sanctuary CovenantThe Sanctuary Movement: Law vs Conscience |
| November 4 | Professor of Earth Sciences, Stanford University, The Greenhouse of the 21st Century
Overview of the Secret Service |
| November 16 | Mark Shields, Washington Post Columnist, CBS and NBC Television News Analyst, ABC Commentator
American Politics – Looking Forward to 1988 |
| December 2 | Dr. Jay Ogilvy, Director of Research for the Values and Lifestyles Program, SRI International
“The Values and Lifestyles of Americans |
| January 6 | Sarah Weddington, Former advisor to President Carter on women’s issues; legislator, educator, lawyer, columnist, and lobbyist
Women’s Rights-Where Are We? |
| January 20 | Dr. Michael Kirst, Professor of Education, Stanford University
The Condition of Education in California |
Winter/Spring 1986
| January 7 | Meg Greenfield, Editor, Washington Post and columnist for Newsweek The News Media and Its Responsibility |
| January 21 | Ralph Salerno, Organized crime specialist, consultant to U.S. Department of Justice, author Organized Crime: How It Works and How It Affects You |
| February 4 | Helen Colijn, Ex-internee in a South Sumatra prison camp. Peninsula Women’s Chorus, Dr. Patricia Hennings, Director. Song of Survival -the Story of Music in a Prison Camp |
| February 18 | Jim Jorgensen, Author, Editor of the Jorgensen Report, host of weekly radio ar1d television shows MoneyShock – the Future Shock of Financial Deregulation |
| March 4 | Wilma Dykeman, Author, lecturer, regional historian Our Literary Roots – from the Regional to the Universal |
| March 18 | Charles McDowell, Washington columnist, Richmond Times Dispatch; Panelist, Washington Week in Review, PBS Washington; What Now? |
| April 1 | Dr. Alan Dundes, Professor of Anthropology, U.C. Berkeley Folklore in the Modern World |
| April 15 | Dr. Peter Grothe, Professor of International Policy Studies, the Monterey Institute of International Studies Report from South Africa |
| May 6 | Gwen King, White House staff under Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford 21 Years in the White House |
| May 20 | Zorn Shively, Social Security Administrator Will Social Security Survive? |
| June 3 | Stirllng Silliphant, Oscar winning motion picturetelevision writer-producer Screenwriting: Silliphant Style |
Fall 1985
| September 17 | Emery Kin, White House Correspondent, NBC News Inside the Reagan White House |
| October 1 | Dr. Joseph Corn, Lecturer, Program in Values,Technology, Science, & Society, Stanford University Yesterday’s Tomorrow -America’s Romance with the Future. |
| October 15 | Lee 0. Coldren, U.S. Foreign Service Afghanistan |
| November 5 | Dr. Victor Fuchs, Professor of Economics, Stanford University, author Who Shall Live -Revisited |
| November 19 | Joanne Tanner, Trainer, lecturer – Gorilla Foundation Crossing Cultures with Koko |
| December 3 | Frances Moore Lapp, Author, Co-founder, Institute for Food and Development Policy World Hunger |
Winter/Spring 1985
| February 5 | Christine Bjorklund, KGO Consumer Specialist The Role of Media in Consumer Problems |
| February 19 | Lela G. Noble, Professor of Political Science, California State University, San Jose The Philippines: After Aquino and Marcos? |
| March 5 | Michael Brown, News Reporter, Author Poisoning of America by Toxic Chemicals |
| March 19 | Malcom Miller, Guide—Lecturer for Chartres Cathedral, Author The Medieval Stained Glass and Sculpture of Chartres Cathedral |
| April 2 | Alvin Rabushka, Professor of Economics, Stanford University The Flat Tax |
| April 16 | Shirley Heath, Professor of Education, Teacher, Linguist, Anthropologist, Stanford University How Different Cultural Communications Affect Children’s Learning |
| May 7 | Maya Angelo, Author, Education, Singer, Actress. Culture’s Role in Society |
| May 21 | Thomas Fingar, Sr. Research Associate, Northeast Asia — United States Forum on International Policy, Stanford University. Chinese Style Socialist Modernization: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future |
| June 14 | Anne Lamott, Author of “Hard Laughter” Coping and Surviving as an Autho |
Fall 1984
| September 18 | Ray Reinhardt, Actor, American Conservatory Theater From First Reading to Opening Night |
| October 2 | Condoleeza Rice, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Stanford U. S. — U. S. S. R. Arms Control |
| October 16 | Mel Elfin, Senior Editor, Washington Bureau The Next President: Does It Matter? |
| November 6 | Jeffrey Masson, Professor, author, Sanskrit scholar, psychoanalyst, non—practicing New Light on Freudian Theory; Historial Scholarship vs. the Popular Press |
| November 20 | Robert Jamplis, physician—surgeon American Health Care – Where Is It Going? |
| December 4 | Malcolm Smith, Professor of Political Science, California State University, Hayward First Amendment Problems: are still with us — Separation of Church and State |
| January 8 | John H. Bunzell, U. S. Civil Rights Commission U. S. Civil Rights Commission; Sense and Nonsense |
| January 22 | Timothy Duncan, General Manager, San Frncisco Ballet Co. What Makes a Ballet Company Great? |
Winter/Spring 1984
| February 7 | J. S. Holliday, Historian,Author The Gold Rush -“… the World Rushed In”. |
| February 21 | Barton J. Bernstein, History Professor, Stanford University, Research team, Biomedical Innovations and Public Policy Heroic Medicine and Public Monies |
| March 6 | Jean Wente, Vintner The Realties and Importance of the California Wine Industry |
| March 20 | The Honorable Judge Joseph T. Sneed, U.S. Circuit Judge The Establishment of a New Court between the U.S. Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court |
| April 3 | Yvonne Jacobson, Educator Passing Farms and Enduring Values, The Urbanizationof Farmland |
| April 17 | Clint E. Smith, Senior Research Associate and Deputy Coordinator of the Project on U.S.-Mexico Relations at Stanford Food Research Institute Central America -Implication for U.S. Foreign Policy |
| May 1 | Bella Abzug, Former Congresswoman, State of New York How Women will Decide the Next Election I |
| May 15 | Sherman Nobleman, Designer Sources for Creative Ideas, Interior Landscapes . |
| June 5 | Quentill Kopp, San Francisco Supervisor Negotiating and Mobilizing for Major Events – i.e. National DemocraticcParty Convention |
Fall 1983
| September 20 | Albert Hunt, Journalist, Wall Street Journal Politics, Power and Performance. |
| October 4 | Roger Mack, Social Economist, SRI International For the Valley of the Hearts, the Future Isn’t What It Used To Be and Never Was. |
| October 18 | Robert Gomperts, International Businessman, World Affairs Council Lecturer Should NATO Deploy Nuclear Missiles? |
| November 1 | Arthur Schawlow, Nobel Prize winner, Co—inventor of the Laser, Stanford Professor of Physics Lasers and Their Uses. |
| November 15 | Patricia Sanders, Art Historian and Teacher, Dominican College, University of the Pacific, University of California, Berkeley The Vatican Art Collection. |
| December 6 | Barbara Babcock, Professor of Law, Stanford University Former Assistant U. S. Attorney General Criminal Procedure and Defending the Guilty. |
| January 3 | Sanford Dornbusch, Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology, Stanford University The Family Structure — What is Changing and What is Staying the Same. |
| January 17 | Calvin Trillin, Author, Columnist, The New Yorker, The Nation Uncivil Liberties. |