Yakima Town Hall -

2023-2024 Season

50th Anniversary Season

2020-2021 Season

2019-2020 Season

2018-2019 Season

2017-2018 Season

2016-2017 Season

2015-2016 Season

2014-2015 Season

2013-2014 Season

 2012-2013

• Laura Bush
• Wes Moore
• Dr. David Lampton
• Robert Ballard

2011-2012

• Jane Goodall Ph.D., DBE
• Rabbi Brad Hirschfield
• Gina Barreca
• Dr. Michio Kaku

2010-2011

• Roberts, Cokie
• Engel, Elliot
• Marton, Kati
• Achor, Shawn

2009-2010

• Brooks, David
• Buettner, Dan
• Judd, Naomi
• Urrea, Luis Alberto

2008-2009

• McCourt, Frank
• Sutherland, Peter
• Gifford, Rob
• Ling, Lisa

2007-2008

• Burstyn, Ellen
• Rushdie, Salman
• Whittaker, Jim
• O'Rourke, P.J.

2006-2007

• Keillor, Garrison
• Pepin, Jacques
• Engel, Elliot
• Bogdanos, Matthew

2005-2006

• Rutan, Burt
• Alexander, Jane
• DeBlij, Harm
• Leakey, Louise

2004-2005

• Sadat, Jehan
• Tynan, Ronan
• Deford, Frank
• Wiehl, Lis

2003-2004

• Weathers, Beck
• Feiler, Bruce
• Navarrette, Jr., Ruben
• Stamberg, Susan

2002-2003

• Downs, Hugh
• McCaffrey, Barry
• Jenkinson, Clay
• Miller, Will

2001-2002

• Engel, Elliot
• Winkler, Henry
• de Blij, Harm
• Frommer, Arthur

2000-2001

• Buckley, Christopher
• King, Alan
• Ellison, Herbert J.
• Cousteau, Jean-Michel

1999-2000

• Reston, Jr., James
• Broder, David
• Asner, Edward
• Norgay, Jamling

1998 - 1999

• Wilmut, Ian
• Fouts, Roger
• Quinn, Jane Bryant
• York, Michael

1997 - 1998

• Eisenhower, Susan
• Forbes, Steve
• Engel, Elliot
• LaRoche, Loretta

1996 - 1997

• Hedrick, Larry
• Kennedy, Jr., Robert F.
• Howard, Peter
• Arnot, Bob

1995 - 1996

• Jong, Erica
• Colby, William E.
• Steves, Rick
• Engel, Elliot
• Dean, Morton

1994 - 1995

• Vanocur, Sander
• Norville, Deborah
• Goodwin, Doris Kearns
• Beck, Carol
• Gaynor, Mitzi

1993 - 1994

• Scott, Colonel Chuck
• Weaver, Dennis
• Siegel, M.D., Bernie
• Kast, Sheilah
• MacRae, Sheila

1992 - 1993

• North, Oliver
• Lamm, Richard
• Fabray, Nanette
• Powers, John
• Solonina, Victoria

1991 - 1992

• Levine, Irving R.
• Duke, Paul
• Khrushchev, Sergei
• Livingstone, Dr. Neil
• Towers, Constance

1990-1991

• Goldwater, Barry
• Graham, Virginia
• Piscatella, Joe
• Cheng, Nien
• Viorst, Judith

1989 - 1990

• Proxmire, Sen. William
• Hunt, Al
• Woodruff, Judy
• Trillin, Calvin
• Mondale, Joan
• Alberghetti, Anna Maria

1988 - 1989

• Russell, Mark
• Randall, B. Carter
• Dancy, John
• Brody, Jane
• Bloomingdale, Betsy

1987 - 1988

• Eisenhower, Julie and David
• Zumwalt, Admiral Elmo
• Schell, Orville
• Leibowitz, Fran
• Raitt, John

1986 - 1987

• Liddy, G. Gordon
• Lear, Moya
• Heloise
• Plimpton, George
• Dickerson, Nancy

1985 - 1986

• Cottell, Colonel John
• Pickford, Kaylan
• Cousins, Norman
• Sadat, Camelia
• Meadows, Jayne

1984 - 1985

• Miller, Jonathon
• Kearns, Doris
• Geyer, Georgie Anne
• Holm, Celeste
• Duchin, Peter
• Kissinger, Henry (evening)

1983 - 1984

• Monroe, Bill
• Bondy, Susan
• Burns, Dr. David
• Russell, Mark
• Powell, Jane

1982 - 1983

• Van Buren, Abigail
• Bugliosi, Vincent
• Steinem, Gloria
• Cappiello, Frank
• Lovell, James

1981-1982

• Bailey, F. Lee
• Smith, M.D., Lendon
• de Romanones, Contessa
• Nader, Ralph
• Munsel, Patrice
• Cronkite, Walter (evening)

1980 - 1981

• Mitchell, Dr. Richard
• Neal, Patricia
• Halberstam, David
• Reynolds, Jack
• Forbes, Malcolm

1979 - 1980

• Kilpatrick, James
• Howar, Barbara
• Rollin, Betty
• Wheldon, Sir Hew
• Wyler,Gretchen

1978 - 1979

• Graham, Virginia
• Hoving, Thomas
• Kuralt, Charles
• Hawkins, Betty Jo
• Nugent, John

1977 - 1978

• Linkletter, Art
• Lindbergh, Jon
• Bracken, Peg
• Anderson, Jack
• Weir, June

1976 - 1977

• Bombeck, Erma
• Buckley, Reid / Lerner, Max
• Kiker, Douglas
• Cromie, Robert
• Bergen, Polly

1975 - 1976

• Churchill, III, Winston
• Caras, Roger
• Ciardi, John
• Frances, Arlene
• Logan, Joshua

1974 - 1975

• Downs, Hugh
• Rukeyser, Louis
• Sidey, Hugh
• Bernier, Rosamond
• Reed, Rex

1973 - 1974

• de Havilland, Olivia
• Vidal, Gore
• Kampen, Irene
• Buchwald, Art

1972 - 1973

• Krist, Judith
• Kreskin
• Price, Vincent
• Carlisle, Kitty

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