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1971-72 Sam Levenson, Kitty Carlisle, Betty and Jack Melville, Norman Garbo

1972-73 Vincent Price, Olivia de Havilland, James Calvert, Robert St. John

1973-74 Virginia Graham, Lawrence Gichner, Ray Bolger, Irene Kampen

1974-75 Art Linkletter, John Robert Powers, Jon Lindbergh, Princess of Siam

1975-76 Ann Landers, Clive David, Henry Cabot Lodge, Marjorie Holmes

1976-77 Erma Bombeck, Bob Cromie, Phyllis Kepler, Reid Buckley

1977-78 Lee Bailey, Wyatt Cooper, George Cukor, June Weir

1978-79 Thomas Hoving, Mouza Zumwalt, Jim Thorne, Orson Bean

1979-80 Polly Bergen, John Peer Nugent, Deidre Stanforth, Frank Cappiello

1980-81 Patrice Munsell, Lynda Johnson Robb, Beverly Barbour, Will Rogers, Jr.

1981-82 Hon. Winston Churchill, Nila Magidoff, Allison Laland, Stanley Marcus

1982-83 William A. Nolan, MD, Patricia Neal, Deena Kaye, Peg Bracken

1983-84 Eric Severeid, Ralph Salerno, Georgie Anne Geyer, Eugenia Zukerman

1984-85 Heloise, Gordon L. Iseminger, PhD., George Plimpton, The Contessa de Romanones

1985-86 Capt. Gerald Coffee, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Shirley Leuth, Jayne Meadows

1986-87 Lorin Hollander, Jeff Greenfield, Betty Williams, Camelia Sadat

1987-88 John Stossel, Dorothy Debolt, Lorna Kelly, Joyce Brothers

1988-89 John Dancy, Johnny Andrews, Steven Ford, Phyllis Frelich

1989-90 Col. Charles Scott, Myron Jones, Nien Cheng, Lloyd Dobyns

1990-91 David & Julie Eisenhower, Joseph Piscatella, Judith Viorst, Peter Howard

1991-92 Robert Kennedy, Jr., John Powers, Dr. Richard Ittner, Joan Benny

1992-93 Dr. Tony Campolo, G. Gordon Liddy, Victoria Solonina, Nanette Fabray

1993-94 Father Andrew Greeley, Tanya Griffith, Helen Thomas, Eileen Fulton

1994-95 Richard Simmons, Patricia Moore, Loretta Laroche, Tanya Griffith

1995-96 Ben Vereen, B. Gentry Lee, Lorie Line, Eliot Engel, Shelley Fabrares

1996-97 Morton Dean, Jack Canfield, John Riatt, Zev Kedem

1997-98 Rita Moreno, Henry Haller, Frank Murray, Dorsey Brothers Band

1998-99 Jon Hassa-Ann Fennesy, God Squad, Dr. Guy Doud, Kathy Cronkite

1999-00 Susan Eisenhower, Michael York, bill Schustik, Hope Mihalap

2000-01 Kate Campbell Stevenson, Dr. Will Miller, Deborah Norville, Susan Granger

2001-02 Scott Ritter, Christopher Buckley, Betty Boyd Caroli, Donna Woolfolk Cross

2002-03 Homer H. Hickman, Gale Riley, Kieu Chinh, Peter Howard

2003-04 Arthur Frommer, Solid Brass, Susan Stamberg, Lori Borgman

2004-05 Eliot Engel, Von Trapp Children, Louis Raymond, Sylvia Nasar

2005-06 Joel Meyerowitz, Erin Grewell, Francis Bok, North Wood

2006-07 Jane Brody, Stephanie Ambrose Tubbs, David Bornstein, Martha Raddatz

2007-08 Dicky Arbiter, Betty Mahmoody, Ric Burns, Nancy Giles

2008-09 Amy Dickinson, Candice DeLong, Howie Franklin, Rob Gifford

2009-10 Becky Gulsvig, Ronan Tynan, Kate Adamson, Barbara McClintock

2010-11 Kelly Corrigan, Anita Gutschick, Byron Pitts, Joan Brock

2011-12 Anne Thompson, Randy Cohen, Lisa Kivirist, LaDonna Gatlin

2012-13 Kal Kallaugher, Francine Segan, Steve Hartman, Tony DeSare & Tom Santopietro

2013-14 Rick Steves, Stephen Bogart & Cass Warner, Gioia Daliberto, Gentry Lee

2014-15 Nick Clooney, Ceci Connolly, Klea Blackhurst, Dr. Jill Carroll

2015-16 Vicki Lawrence, Roland Mesnier, Dr. Jo-Ellan Dimitrius, Bob Eubanks

2016-17 Anson Williams & Donny Most, Mandy Anderson, Marc Lapadula, Denise Kiernan

2017-18 Connie Stevens, Tom Gjelten, Robert Wittman, Jan McGinnis

2018-19 Christina Baker Kline, Rita Moreno, Alan Zweibel, Jeffrey Rosen

2019-20 Garth Stein, Cindy Williams

2020-21 Covid pandemic

2021-22 Amanda Knox, Spencer Stone

2022-23 Rachael Denhollander, Orin Grossman, Joe Wiegand, Dave Sanderson