Notable Speakers and Visitors
- 1856: Abraham Lincoln
- 1915: Booker T. Washington
- 1934: Norman Thomas
- 1927: Kirby Page
- 1967: Everett M. Dirksen
- 1967: Charles Percy
- 1967: Carl Greenberg
- 1988: Cornel West
- 1992: James Burke (science historian)
- 1992: Dan Quayle
- 1996: William F. Buckley, Jr
- 2009: Mikhail Gorbachev
- 2010: Mae (First U.S. Reunion Performance)
- 2011: Newt Gingrich
- 2011: Sarah Palin
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