Notable Speakers in Lafayette’s History
1877 William Cullen Bryant
1880 Rutherford B. Hayes
1883 Susan B. Anthony
1942 Lowell Thomas
1946 Dwight D. Eisenhower
1956 Richard Nixon
1958 Robert Frost
1966 W.H. Auden
1968 Gerald Ford
1972 William F. Buckley, Jr.
1973 Anthony Burgess
1975 Elliott Richardson
1977 Isaac Asimov
1977 Vernon Jordan
1977 Jane Fonda
1977 Fred (Mr.) Rogers
1978 Lillian M. Gilbreth
1979 Philippe de Montebello
1979 Stokely Carmichael
1980 Garry Trudeau
1982 Edward Teller
1981 Julian Bond
1982 Bill Bradley
1983 Neil Armstrong
1983 Gwendolyn Brooks
1984 José Ferrer
1984 Rev. Jesse Jackson
1984 E.L. Doctorow
1985 Meryl Streep
1986 Peter Ueberroth
1988 William Gray III
1989 Robert Darnton
1991 Jacques Cousteau
1993 Toni Morrison
1995 David McCullough
1996 Bill Cosby
1997 John Updike
1998 George Herbert Walker Bush
1999 Maya Angelou
2000 George Will
2001 Doris Kearns Goodwin
2002 Jim Lehrer
2003 Vartan Gregorian
2004 Ed Rendell
2005 Tom Ridge
2006 Gloria Steinem
2007 David McCullough
2007 Michael Beschloss
2008 Gloria Steinem
2008 Salman Rushdie
2008 Juan Williams
2008 Simon Schama
2010 Nicholas Katzenbach
2010 Taylor Branch
2011 Mikhail Gorbachev
2011 Gwen Ifill
2012 Joe Biden
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