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62-63 | 63-64 | 64-65
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70-71 | 71-72 | 72-73 | 73-74 | 74-75
76-77 | 77-78 | 78-79 | 79-80

80-81 | 81-82 | 82-83
85-86 | 86-87 | 87-88 | 88-89 | 89-90

90-91 | 91-92 | 92-93 | 93-94 | 94-95
95-96 | 96-97 | 97-98 | 98-99 | 99-00

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05-06
1962-1963
Frank Gervasi
Dr. Cleo Dawson
Marie Torre
Robert R. Brunn
Gayelord Hauser
Dr. Ralph W. Sockman
Jan Lindermann
Dr. Harry Wood
Baroness Maria
von Trapp
Lynn Heinzerling
Dr. Rowland M. Myers
Denis Warner
Lisa Howard
Robert Kazmayer

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1963-1964
Raymond Moley
Nancy Spain
Brg. Gen. Frank L.
Howley (Ret.)
Morris Barr
Ray Middleton
Edward Weeks
Ginette Spanier
Emily Kimbrough
Dr. Donald W. Cox
Constantin Boldyreff
Eleanor Lansing Dulles
Eddy Gilmore
Gerald Moore
Godfrey Sperling, Jr.

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1964-1965
Cleveland Amory
Roscoe Drummond
Mme. Anna
Chennault
John Braine
Dame Alica Markova
Dr. Ralph Robey
Lehman Engel
Willem Oltmans
Sir Hugh Foot
M. S. Handler
Dr. Russell Caldwell
Eddie Frederics
Betty Bruce
H. Montgomery Hyde

To the Top		 1965-1966
Micol Fontana
Winston S. Churchill
John Mason Brown
Robert S. Elegant
Tom Ewell
Dr. Woodrow
Wilson Sayre
Nila Magidoff
Joe A. Callaway
Alistair Cooke
Eddy Gilmore
Bergen Eveans
Dr. Karl H. Berns
Lionel Wiggam
Adelaide Stedman

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1966-1967
Bennett Cerf
Aline Mosby
Alistair Cooke
Cincy Adams
Jean Pierre Hallet
Warren Rogers
Betty Furness
Marietta Tree
Walter B. Pitkin, Jr.
John Hlavacek
Dr. Richard
McLanathan
Philip Burton
Robin Moore

To the Top		 1967-1968
Art Buchwald
Betsy Halstead
Dr. Leland Miles
Arther C. Clarke
Drew Middleton
Col. John S. D.
Eisenhower
General Mark W. Clark
The Marquis
De La Passardiere
Pegge Parker
Jean Houston
Dr. Richard McLanathan
Paul Niven

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1968-1969
Buill Mauldin
William Jay Smith
Kitty Carlisle
David Humphreys
Dr. Haim G. Ginott
Dan Rather
Agnes DeMille
George Reedy, Jr.
Pauline Frederick
Joseph C. Harsch

To the Top		 1969-1970
Celeste Holm
Howard K. Smith
William A. Emerson, Jr.
Dr. Harold Taylor
James J. Kilpatrick
Ilka Chase
Ralph Salerno
Earl Wilson
Ambassador
Walter Dowling
Joseph C. Harsch

To the Top
1970-1971
Adela Rogers
St. Johns
David Keith Hardy
William David
David Hoy
Paul Duke
Virginia Graham
Nila Magidoff
Frank Graham, Jr.
Jenkin Llyod Jones
Joseph C. Harsch
Henry Fonda

To the Top		 1971-1972
Meredith Willson
Dr. David
H. C. Read
Dr. Edwin
O. Reischauer
Erma Bombeck
Vice-Admiral
James F. Calvert
Jeane Dixon
Robert Cromie
Bonaro Overstreet
Joseph C. Harsch

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1972-1973
Congressman
Philip M. Crane
Ralph Nader
Sam Shulsky
Clare Boothe Luce
Archbishop
Fulton J. Sheen
Hugh Sidey
Mr. & Mrs. J.
Leslie-Melville
Samuel S. Vaughan
Eve Arden
Joseph C. Harsch

To the Top		 1973-1974
John A. Davenport
James Reston
Phyllis Schlafly
Sam Levenson
Senator Barry
Goldwater
Mark Gayn
Adelle Davis
James C. Bostain
Eve Brown
Dr. S. I. Hayakawa

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1974-1975
Nancy Dicerson
Adela Rogers
David Niven
Clive David
William A. Rusher
Bill Lignante
Joe A. Calloway
Alex Haley
Irene Kampen
Senator
Barry Goldwater

To the Top		 1976-1977
Russell Baker
George C. Roche, III
Hugh Sidey
Lord Harlech
Gloria Swanson
Joyce Jillson
June Weir
John Peer Nugent
Dr. John G.
Stoessinger
Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.

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1977-1978
Patrice Munsel
charles Collingwood
Nicholas Johnson
James T. Lynn
Lowell Thomas
Wendell Garrett
Dr. James Thorne
The Hon. Judge
Lisa Richette
Dr. John G.
Stoessinger

To the Top		 1978-1979
Countessa
de Romanones y
Quintanilla Grandee
of Spain
Frank Cappiello
Hedrick Smith
Thomad Hoving
Ruth Gordon
Eric Sevareid
Cord Meyer
Richard W. Hoover
Dr. John G.
Stoessinger

To the Top
1979-1980
Barbara Howar
Amabassador
William H. Sullivan
John W. Dean, III
David Halberstam
W. Michael Blumenthal
Morris Barr
Dorothy Fuldheim
Dr. John G. Stoessinger

To the Top		 1980-1981
Patricia Neal
Leslie H. Gelb
Dr. David D Burns
Jack Anderson
Alan Jay Lerner
Ann Compton
Herbert S. Richey
Terry Hekker
Dr. John G. Stoessinger

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1981-1982
F. Lee Bailey
Betty Williams
Ellen Goodman
Hugh Sidey
Mark Russell
Dr. John G. Stoessinger
Dr. Paul S. Nadler
Maureen Reagan
Barbara Walters

To the Top		 1982-1983
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
Claire Booth Luce
Bette Bao Lord
Jack Anderson
Beverly Sills
Amb. Richard T. Davies
Fred Friendly
Arianna Hyman Rickover

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1985-1986
Moya Olsen Lear
Frank Cappiello
Madame Jehan Sadat
Arkady N. Shevchenko
Hon. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
J. Peter Grace
Mike Wallace

To the Top		 1986-1987
Edward Heath
Wm. F. Buckley &
John K. Galbraith
Dr. Carl Sagan
Amb. Philip C. Habib
Diane Sawyer
Capt. James Lovell
Thomas P. O’Neill

To the Top
1987-1988
Hon. Donald T. Reagn
Apartheid Awareness
Debate
Mark Mathabane
Stuart Pringle
Ambassador
Herman W. Nickel
Dr. Susan Forward
Linda Ellerbee
Sam Donaldson
Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski
The McLaughlin Group

To the Top
 1988-1989
Abba Eban
Vladimir Pozner &
Malcolm Toon Debate
Nien Cheng
Tom Wolfe
Mark Russell
Tom Peters
Dr. Henry Kissinger

To the Top
1989-1990
Dr. Zbigniew
Brzezinski
Gov. Mario M.
Cuomo
Neil Sheehan
Hon. David A.
Stockman
Calvin Trillin
Rosamond Bernier
Pierre Salinger

To the Top		 1990-1991
Chancellor
Helmut Schmidt
Vladimir Pozner
Bryan Burrough &
John Helyar
Jonathan Kozol
Jane Goodall
George Will
Ambassador
Winston Lord &
 Bette Bao Lord

To the Top
1991-1992
Benazir Bhutto
Kenneth Burns
Peter Arnett
Patricia Schroeder
Sander Vanocur
Hugh Sidey
Margaret Thatcher

To the Top		 1992-1993
Terry Waite
Alan Dershowitz
William J. Bennett
Faye Wattleton
Faith Popcorn
Dan Rather
David McCullough

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1993-1994
President
George Bush
Louis W. Sullivan
Bill Moyers
Hedrick Smith
Robert James Walker
Cokie Roberts
Peter S. Lynch

To the Top		 1994-1995
President
Gerald R. Ford
Dr. Henry Kissinger
Richard E. Leakey
Lesley Stahl
Garrison Keillor
Stuart A. Varney
Marlin Fitzwater

To the Top
1995-1996
Ken Burns
William Safire
Anna Quindlen
The Hon.
Brian Mulroney
Gen. Colin Powell
David Halberstam
Doris Kearns
Goodwin

To the Top		 1996-1997
Cokie Roberts &
Steve Roberts
F.W. de Klerk
Eli Wiesel
Thomas L. Friedman
Ambassador
Richard C. Holbrooke
Li Lu
Lynn Martin &
Pat Schroeder

To the Top
1997-1998
Rt. Hon.
Christopher Pattern
Charlton Heston
Prime Minister
Shimon Peres
Rev. Prof.
Peter J. Gomes
Ray Brady
Dr. Robert Arnot
Bill Kristol &
George Stephanopoulos

To the Top		 1998-1999
Barbara Goldsmith
Dr. Victor R. Fuchs
Jane Alexander
Sir Richard Needham
James P. Kelly
Judson D. Hale, Sr.
Dr. Beck Weathers
Rt. Hon. John Major

To the Top
1999-2000
William J. Bennett, Ph.D.
Leah Rabin
Robert M. Gates, Ph.D.
Michael R. Beschloss
President George Bush
Beverly Sills
Robert A. M. Stern

To the Top		 2000-2001
Martin S. Feldstein, Ph.D.
Archbishop
John P. Foley, D.D.
John C. Bogle
Ralph Nader
Tim Russert
Barbara Bush
Yolanda King

To the Top
2001-2002
 Ronan Tynan, M.D.
F. Warren McFarlan, D.B.A.
Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ph.D.
Robert Ballard, Ph.D.
J. Craig Venter, Ph.D.
H.J. de Blij

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   		2002-2003
 Rudolph Giuliani
Sergei N. Khrushchev, Ph.D.
Ray Suarez
Michael Osterholm, Ph.D. M.P.H.
Captain Scott O'Grady
Gwen Ifill
Hugh Sidey

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2003-2004
David Breashears 
Benazir Bhutto
Dr. Robert H. Dorff 
Stan Davis 
Dave Barry 
Dr. William F. Schulz 
Dr. Bob Arnot 

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  		 2004-2005
Bob Woodward
Ben Carson
Gen Barry McCaffrey
Liz Murray
Mark Russell
Joseph Badaracco, Ph.D
David McCullough

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2005-2006
Lou Holtz
Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley
Newt Gingrich
Norah O'Donnell
T.R. Reid
Michael Roizen, MD
George F. Will

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