Affiliations listed were current at the date of the Lecture
1952 WILLIAM VOGT, author of best-seller Road to Survival (1948), National Director of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America; M. F. ASHLEY MONTAGU, Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University; lecturer on anthropology, psychiatry, mental health, etc., author of On Being Human, Statement on Race, and many other books, articles, etc.
1953 F. J. ROETHLISBERGER, Professor of Human Relations, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Author of Management and Morale, (1941), etc.
1954 F. S. C. NORTHROP, Professor of Philosophy and Law, Yale University, Author of The Meeting of East and West (1946), The Logic of the Sciences and Humanities (1947) and many others.
1955 R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER, Distinguished engineer, mathematician, inventor, designer, mechanic, writer and philosopher. Author of Nine Chains to the Moon (1938), Dymaxion Air-Ocean World Map (1954) and many writings subsequent to 1955.
1956 CLYDE KLUCKHOHN, Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University. Author of Mirror for Man (1949), What is Science?, etc.
1957 ABRAHAM MASLOW, Professor of Psychology, Brandeis University. Author of Motivation and Personality, and many other writings.
1958 RUSSELL MEYERS, MD, Professor of Surgery, College of Medicine, State University of Iowa and Chairman of Division of Neurosurgery, University of Iowa Hospitals. Author of many professional papers and numerous papers on aspects of general semantics. Author of Preface to the 4th edition of Science and Sanity. See also 1985.
1959 SYMPOSIUM ON THE THEME: "EXTENDING THE PARABOLA". WILLIAM J. FRY, Research Professor of Physics and Director of Biophysical Research Laboratory, University of Illinois. JAMES A. VAN ALLEN, Professor and Head, Department of Physics, State University of Iowa. Revealed the existence of the "Van Allen Belts," two zones of relatively intense radioactivity surrounding the earth. CHARLES M. POMERAT, Professor of Cytology and Director of the Tissue Culture Laboratory, University of Texas, Galveston. Author of many scientific papers, contribution especially to biology, immunology, and biochemistry. Panel discussion, including the above speakers, with Wendell Johnson and Russell Meyers, MD.
1960 WARREN S. MCCULLOCH, MD, Research Laboratory of Electronics, M.I.T. Author of Finality and Form, etc. and many contributions to electro-physiology, neurology, experimental psychology, psychiatry, and artificial organisms.
COLLOQUIUM ON THE THEME: "NEW HORIZONS IN TIME-BINDING." JESSE H. SHERA, Dean and Professor of Library Science, Western Reserve University. ALLEN KENT, Associate Director, Center for Documentation and Communication Research, School of Library Science, Western Reserve University. PAUL PTACEK, Associate Professor of Speech and Hearing, Director of Professional Education, Cleveland Center for Hearing and Speech, Western Reserve University.
1961 ROBERT R. BLAKE, Professor of Psychology, University of Texas, and world renowned organizational consultant for industry and government. See also 1982.
1962 HAROLD G. CASSIDY, Professor of Chemistry, Yale University, Author of The Sciences and the Arts: A New Alliance, etc.
1963 HENRI LABORIT, MD, Chief of Research of the Health Services of the Armies of France; Director of Physio-biological Research and Physician-in-Chief of the National Navy; American Public Health Associations' Albert Lasker Award, 1957. Author of many medical works.
1964 JOOST A. M. MEERLOO, MD, Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, New York School of Psychiatry, and Lecturer in Political Psychology, New York School of Psychiatry, and Lecturer in Political Psychology, New School for Social Research. Served as psychiatric consultant to the Netherlands Royal Court. Author of more than 18 books.
1965 HENRY LEE SMITH, JR., Professor of Linguistics and English, Chairman, Department of Anthropology and Linguistics, State University of New York at Buffalo. Author of many works on Linguistics and Language.
1966 ALVIN M. WEINBERG, Physicist and Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Wrote extensively on some problems of public policy posed by the growth of modern science.
1967 J. BRONOWSKI, Renowned lecturer and author of Science and Human Values, The Identity of Man, etc., also drama and books on literature, and on intellectual history.
1968 ALASTAIR M. TAYLOR, Professor of Political Studies and Geography, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, President of the Canadian Association for American Studies, Former staff member of the Secretariat of the United Nations. Author of many publications concerned with a global approach to the study of human cultures.
1969 LANCELOT LAW WHYTE, World-renowned pioneering scientist-philosopher, lecturer and author of The Next Development of Man, The Unconscious Before Freud, The Unitary Principle in Physics and Biology, and many others.
1970 GREGORY BATESON, Associate Director for Research, Oceanic Institute, Waimanalo, Hawaii, author of many publications in the fields of anthropology, mental health, psychiatry, cybernetics, communication, etc.
1971 HENRY MARGENAU, Professor of Physics and Natural Philosophy, Yale University, Author, lecturer and leading authority on philosophical foundations of physics, etc.
1972 GEORGE STEINER, Extraordinary Fellow, Cambridge University. Internationally known writer, scholar, literary critic and analyst of culture.
1973 A PANEL AND COLLOQUIUM AND LUNCHEON. TITLE: "GENERAL SEMANTICS: WHENCE 1920...WHERE 1973...WHITHER?" Panelists: J. SAMUEL BOIS, teacher at Viewpoints Institute, Los Angeles and School of Public Administration, University of Southern California. ELTON S. CARTER, Dean for Graduate Studies, University of Nebraska. WALTER PROBERT, Professor of Law, University of Florida, Gainesville.
1974 A PANEL AND COLLOQUIUM WITH RECEPTION. KENNETH G. JOHNSON, Professor of Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. NEIL POSTMAN, Professor of Media Ecology, New York University.
1975 HARLEY C. SHANDS, MD, Director, Department of Psychiatry, Roosevelt Hospital, New York.
1976 ROGER W. WESCOTT, Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, Drew University.
1977 BEN BOVA, Author and Editor of Analog Science Fiction - Science Fact Magazine.
1978 ELWOOD MURRAY, Emeritus Professor of Speech Communication, University of Denver.
1979 DON FABUN, Author and lecturer, formerly Director of Publications, Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation.
1980 BARBARA MORGAN, Photographer, painter and author.
1981 THOMAS SEBEOK, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and Semiotics, Indiana University.
1982 ROBERT R. BLAKE, President of Scientific Methods, Inc. and JANE SRYGLEY MOUTON, Vice President. (See also 1961)
1983 ALLEN WALKER READ, Emeritus Professor of English, Columbia University.
1984 KARL H. PRIBRAM, Professor of Neuroscience, Stanford University.
1985 RUSSELL MEYERS, MD, Neurologist, Neurosurgeon, author. (See also 1958)
1986 GEORGE F. F. LOMBARD, Louis E. Kirstein Professor Emeritus of Human Relations and former Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Business, Harvard University.
1987 RICHARD W. PAUL, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Critical Thinking and Moral Critique, Sonoma State University, California.
1988 JEROME BRUNER, Psychologist; Research Fellow, Russell Sage Foundation.
1989 WILLIAM V. HANEY, educator and author, authority on interpersonal communication.
1990 WARREN M. ROBBINS, founder, Director Emeritus and Senior Scholar, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art.
1991 ALBERT ELLIS, Ph.D, President and founder Institute for Rational-Emotive Therapy.
1992 STEVE ALLEN, author, entertainer, song-writer, etc.
1993 WILLIAM LUTZ, Professor of English and Director of the English Graduate Program at Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, author and "doublespeak" authority.
1994 LOTFI A. ZADEH, Professor Emeritus and Director of the Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing. Known for his contributions to machine intelligence, particularly through "Fuzzy Logic."
1995 NICHOLAS JOHNSON, Former Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law.
1996 MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI, Professor of Human Development, University of Chicago, author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience and Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention.
1997 ROBERT ANTON WILSON, futurist, novelist, poet, playwright, etc., whose works include The Illuminatus Trilogy and Prometheus Rising.
1998 THEODORE R. SIZER, Educator, school reform advocate and author, author of Horace's Hope, Horace's School, and Horace's Compromise, dealing with the dilemmas facing public school and their re-design.
1999 ELLEN J. LANGER, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, author of Mindfulness and The Power of Mindful Learning.
2000 ROBERT P. PULA, Director Emeritus, Institute of General Semantics, author of A General-Semantics Glossary, composer.
2001 LOU MARINOFF, Chair of Philosophy, City College of New York, founding President of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association, author of Plato Not Prozac!.
2002 J. ALLAN HOBSON, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Laboratory of Neurophysiology at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, author of The Dreaming Brain, Sleep, Dreaming as Delirium, and (with Jonathan A. Leonard) Out of its Mind: Psychiatry in Crisis: a Call for Reform.
2003 SANFORD I. BERMAN, motivational speaker and nightclub hypnotist. Student of Dr. Irving J. Lee, long-time supporter of general semantics, editor of Logic and General Semantics and Words, author of Meanings and People.
2005 ROBERT L. CARNEIRO, Curator, Anthropology Division, American Museum of Natural History. Author of Evolutionism in Cultural Anthropology and The Muse of History and the Science of Culture.
2006 RENEE HOBBS, Ed.D., Director, Media Education Lab, Temple University, Founder of the Alliance for a Media Literate America (AMLA), author of Reading the Media.
