NSU Distinguished Speakers Series

Danny Glover

Bernard Kalb

Bernard Kalb Bernard Kalb (born February 4, 1922) is an American journalist, moderator, media critic, lecturer, and author. Born in New York City, he covered international affairs for more than three decades at CBS News, NBC News, and The...

Hadassah Lieberman

Hadassah Lieberman and a Gold Circle member Hadassah Lieberman (nÃ©e Freilich; born March 28, 1948) is the second wife of former United States Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut. Lieberman received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government...

Ben & Jerry

Ben & Jerry Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield were childhood friends from New York. In 1977 Ben and Jerry completed a correspondence course on ice cream making from Pennsylvania State University's Creamery. Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings...

John B. Anderson

John B. Anderson (born February 15, 1922) is a former United States Congressman and Presidential candidate from Illinois. He was a U.S. Representative from the 16th Congressional District of Illinois for ten terms, from 1961 through 1981...

Robert H. Bork

Robert H. Bork (March 1, 1927 â€“ December 19, 2012) was an American legal scholar who advocated the judicial philosophy of originalism. Bork served as a Yale Law School professor, Solicitor General, Acting Attorney General, and a judge of...

Edward I. Koch

Edward I. Koch (December 12, 1924 â€“ February 1, 2013) was an American lawyer, politician, political commentator, movie critic and reality television arbitrator. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 1977...

Winston Spencer-Churchill

Winston Spencer-Churchill (10 October 1940 â€“ 2 March 2010), was a British Conservative Party politician and a grandson of former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, his namesake.

Peter Arnett

Peter Arnett is a New Zealand journalist. Arnett worked for National Geographic magazine, and later for various television networks, most notably CNN.

Philip M. Crane

Philip Miller "Phil" Crane (November 3, 1930 â€“ November 8, 2014) was an American politician. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 2005, representing the 8th District of Illinois in the...

Caspar Weinberger

Caspar Willard "Cap" Weinberger, GBE (August 18, 1917 â€“ March 28, 2006), was an American politician and businessman. As a prominent Republican, he served in a variety of prominent state and federal positions for three decades, including...

Rosalynn Carter

Eleanor Rosalynn Carter (nÃ©e Smith; August 18, 1927) is the wife of the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter and in that capacity served as the First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981. She has for decades been a...

Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader (born February 27, 1934) is an American political activist of Lebanese origin, as well as an author, lecturer, and attorney. Areas of particular concern to Nader include consumer protection,humanitarianism, environmentalism...

Robert McNamara

Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 â€“ July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense, serving from 1961 to 1968 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, during which time he played a...

Linda Ellerbee

Linda Ellerbee (born August 15, 1944) is an American journalist who is most known for several jobs at NBC News, including Washington, D.C. correspondent, and also as host of the Nickelodeon network's Nick News with Linda Ellerbee. (Bio...

Marvin Kalb

Marvin L. Kalb (born June 9, 1930) is an American journalist. Kalb was the founding director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy from 1987 to 1999. The...

Edwin Meese

Edwin "Ed" Meese, III (born December 2, 1931) is a noted Republican attorney, law professor and author who served in official capacities within the Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Administration (1967â€“1974), the Reagan Presidential...

David Stockman

David Alan Stockman (born November 10, 1946) is a former businessman and U.S. politician who served as a Republican U.S. Representative from the state of Michigan (1977â€“1981) and as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget...

Joseph J. Sisco

Joseph John Sisco (October 31, 1919 â€“ November 23, 2004) was a diplomat who played a major role in then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East and whose career in the State Departmentspanned five...

Jehan Sadat

Jehan Sadat (born 29 August 1933) is the widow of Anwar Sadat, and was First Lady of Egypt from 1970 until Sadat's assassination in 1981. (Bio taken from Wikipedia, accessed 11/12/2014)

William Proxmire

Edward William Proxmire (November 11, 1915 â€“ December 15, 2005) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States Senator from Wisconsin from 1957 to 1989. (Bio taken from Wikipedia, accessed...

Clarence Page

Clarence Page Clarence Page (born June 2, 1947) is an American journalist, syndicated columnist, and senior member of the Chicago Tribune editorial board. Page, who grew up in Chicago and first saw segregated water fountains during...

Harry Belafonte

Harry Belafonte Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr., March 1, 1927) is an American singer, songwriter, activist, and actor. One of the most successful Jamaican American pop stars ever as he popularised the Trinbagonian...

Bob Woodward and Ben Bradlee

Robert Upshur Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is an American investigative journalist. He started working for The Washington Post as a reporter in 1971 and currently holds the title of associate editor. While a young reporter for The...

Tony Segreto, Raquel Ferrero and Tommy Lasorda

Tony Segreto, Raquel Ferrero, Tommy Lasorda, and an unknown man. Photo credit: Gerlinde Photography Tony SegretoTony has been a fixture in South Florida television for 40 years. He has been one of the most respected and trusted...

Ray Ferrero and James Earl Jones

Mr. Ferrero serves as Chancellor of Nova Southeastern University, having previously served as Chancellor/CEO from January 1, 2010 - July 1, 2011. Prior thereto, he served as President and CEO since January 1, 1998, a member of the Board of...

Tim Russert

Timothy John Russert (May 7, 1950 â€“ June 13, 2008) was an American television journalist and lawyer who appeared for more than 16 years as the longest-serving moderator of NBC's Meet the Press. He was a senior vice president at NBC News...

Dr. Ian Wilmut

Dr. Ian Wilmut (born 7 July 1944) is an English embryologist and Chair of the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He is best known as the leader of the research group that in 1996 first cloned a mammal...

Edward Albee

Edward Albee (March 12, 1928) is an American playwright who is known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962). His works are considered well-crafted, often realistic...

Henry Winkler

Henry Winkler (born October 30, 1945) is an American actor, director, comedian, producer and author. Winkler is best known for his role as Arthur Fonzarelli in the 1970s American sitcom Happy Days. "The Fonz," or "Fonzie," a leather-clad...

Dr. Jane Goodall

Dr. Jane Goodall (April 3, 1934) DBE is an English primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace. She is considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute...

Rita Moreno

Rita Moreno is a Puerto Rican actress and singer. She is the only Hispanic and one of the few performers to have won all four major annual American entertainment awards, which include an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy and a Tony, and was the...

George Robert Stephanopoulos

George Robert Stephanopoulos (born February 10, 1961) is an American television journalist and a former U.S. Democratic Party political advisor. He a communications director for the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign of Bill Clinton,[3...

Garry Spence

Gerald Leonard Spence (born January 8, 1929) is a semi-retired American trial lawyer. He is a member of the American Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame. Spence has never lost a criminal case either as a prosecutor or a defense attorney and has not...

Dan Quayle

Dan Quayle, (February 4, 1947) the 44th Vice President of the United States, served with President George H. W. Bush. He served as a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Indiana.

Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell (born October 30, 1946) is an American television journalist, anchor, and commentator for NBC News, based in Washington, D.C. She is the NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs & Chief Washington Correspondent, and reported on the...

Letitia Baldrige

Letitia Baldrige (February 9, 1926 â€“ October 29, 2012) was an American etiquette expert and public relations executive who was most famous for serving as Jacqueline Kennedy's Social Secretary. Known as the "Doyenne of Decorum", she wrote...

Jesse Jackson

Jesse Jackson (born Jesse Louis Burns; October 8, 1941) is an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as a shadow U.S. Senator for the...

James Lovell

James Lovell (born March 25, 1928) is a former NASA astronaut and a retired captain in the United States Navy, most famous as the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, which suffered a critical failure en route to the Moon but was brought...

Morton Dean

Morton Dean is an American television news journalist who has worked for CBS News and ABC News since the mid-1960s. Dean is currently a Partner at corporate and executive communications firm of M.E. Communications Partners.

Graham Kerr

Graham Kerr (22 January 1934 in London) is an English cooking personality who is best known for his television cooking show The Galloping Gourmet. Since the late 1990s, Graham Kerr was also seen in a series of radio and television features...

Dr. Joyce Brothers

Dr. Joyce Brothers (October 20, 1927 â€“ May 13, 2013) was an American psychologist, television personality and columnist, who wrote a daily newspaper advice column from 1960 to 2013.

Ann Richards

Dorothy Ann Richards (nÃ©e Willis; September 1, 1933 â€“ September 13, 2006) was an American politician and 45th Governor of Texas (1991â€“95). A Democrat, she first came to national attention as the Texas State Treasurer, when she gave...

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Julie Nixon Eisenhower (born July 5, 1948) is an American author who is the younger daughter of Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States, and First Lady Pat Nixon. Through her husband David, she is also granddaughter-in-law of...

Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou- born Marguerite Annie Johnson; (April 4, 1928 â€“ May 28, 2014) was an American author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry, and was...

Chester James Carville, Jr.

Chester James Carville, Jr. is an American political commentator and media personality who is a prominent figure in the Democratic Party. Carville gained national attention for his work as the lead strategist of the successful presidential...

Robert Novak

Robert Novak (February 26, 1931 â€“ August 18, 2009) was an American syndicated columnist, journalist, television personality, author, and conservative political commentator. After working for two newspapers before serving for the U.S...

Dr. Mae Jemison

Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour...

Jean Harris

Jean Harris (April 27, 1923 â€“ December 23, 2012) was the headmistress of The Madeira School for girls in McLean, Virginia, who made national news in the early 1980s as she was tried and convicted of the murder of her ex-lover, Herman...

Edward I. Koch

Dr. Thomas Hoving

Dr. Thomas Hoving (January 15, 1931 â€“ December 10, 2009) was an American museum executive and consultant and the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He helped launch blockbuster exhibitions, or grand spectacles that were heavily...

Dr. Benjamin Hooks

Dr. Benjamin Hooks (January 31, 1925 â€“ April 15, 2010) ) was an American civil rights leader. A Baptist minister and practicing attorney, he served as executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

Robert Kennedy, Jr., (January 17, 1954) is an American radio host, environmental activist, author and attorney specializing in environmental law. His parents were Ethel and Robert F. Kennedy the former United States Senator for New York...

William Bennett

William Bennett (born July 31, 1943) is an American conservative pundit, politician, and political theorist, who served as Secretary of Education from 1985 to 1988 under President Reagan. He also held the post of Director of the Office of...

Mark Russell

Mark Russell (born Mark Ruslander August 23, 1932 in Buffalo, New York) is an American political satirist/comedian. He also sings and plays the piano.

Helen Thomas

Helen Amelia Thomas (August 4, 1920 â€“ July 20, 2013)[1] was an American reporter and author, and a long-serving member of the White House press corps. She covered the White House during the administrations of ten U.S. presidentsâ€”from...

John H. Sununu

John H. Sununu (born July 2, 1939) served as the 75th Governor of New Hampshire (1983â€“89) and later White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush. He is the father of Christopher Sununu and John E. Sununu, a former United...

Tony Randall

Tony Randall (February 26, 1920 â€“ May 17, 2004) was an American actor, producer, and director, best known for his role as Felix Unger in the television adaptation of Neil Simon's play The Odd Couple.

Nien Chang

Nien Chang (January 28, 1915 â€“ November 2, 2009) was a Chinese author who recounted her harrowing experiences of the Cultural Revolution in her memoir Life and Death in Shanghai.

George Will

George Frederick Will (born May 4, 1941) is an American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author. He is a Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winner best known for his conservative commentary on politics. (Bio taken from Wikipedia, accessed 11/12/2014)

Bella Abzug

Bella Abzug (July 24, 1920 â€“ March 31, 1998), nicknamed "Battling Bella", was an American lawyer, U.S. Representative, social activist and a leader of the Women's Movement. In 1971, Abzug joined other leading feminists such as Gloria...

Coretta Scott King

Coretta Scott King (April 27, 1927 â€“ January 30, 2006) was the wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. and was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader. Coretta Scott King helped lead the African-American Civil Rights Movement in...

Alan Dershowitz

Alan Dershowitz (born September 1, 1938) is an American lawyer, jurist, author, and political commentator. He is a prominent scholar on United States constitutional law and criminal law. He spent most of his career at Harvard Law School...

Daniel Schorr

Daniel Schorr (August 31, 1916 â€“ July 23, 2010) was an American journalist who covered world news for more than 60 years. He was most recently a Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio (NPR). Schorr won three Emmy Awards for his...

Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol (born September 5, 1936) is an American writer, educator, and activist best known for his books on public education in the United States. Kozol had founded a non-profit called Cambridge Institute for Public Education. The...

Stanley Marcus

Stanley Marcus (April 20, 1905 â€“ January 22, 2002) was an early president (1950â€“1972) and later chairman of the board (1972â€“1976) of the luxury retailer Neiman Marcus in Dallas, Texas, which his father and aunt had founded in 1907...

Geraldine Ferraro

Geraldine Ferraro (August 26, 1935 â€“ March 26, 2011) was an American attorney, a Democratic Party politician, and a member of the United States House of Representatives. She was the first female vice presidential candidate representing a...

George Steinbrenner

George Steinbrenner (July 4, 1930 â€“ July 13, 2010) was an American businessman who was the principal owner and managing partner of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees. During Steinbrenner's 37-year ownership from 1973 to his death...

Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem (March 25, 1934) is an American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader of, and spokeswoman for, the feminist movement in the late 1960s and 1970s. She was a...

Dan Rather

Dan Rather (born October 31, 1931) is an American journalist and the former news anchor for the CBS Evening News. He is now managing editor and anchor of the television news magazine Dan Rather Reports on the cable channel AXS TV. Rather...

Eugene J. McCarthy

Eugene J. McCarthy (March 29, 1916 â€“ December 10, 2005) was an American politician, poet, and a long-time member of the United States Congress from Minnesota. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959 and the U.S...

Frank C. Carlucci

Frank Charles Carlucci III (born October 18, 1930) served as the United States Secretary of Defense from 1987 to 1989 in the administration of President Ronald Reagan. Prior to that, Carlucci served in a variety of senior-level...

Shirley A. Chisholm

Shirley A. Chisholm (November 30, 1924 â€“ January 1, 2005) was an American politician, educator, and author. She was a Congresswoman, representing New York's 12th Congressional District for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. In 1968, she...

Cokie Roberts

Cokie Roberts-Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Roberts born December 27, 1943), best known as Cokie Roberts, is an American journalist and author. She is a contributing senior news analyst for National Public Radio as well as a...

Walter Mondale

Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale (born January 5, 1928) is an American Democratic Party politician who served as the 42nd Vice President of the United States (1977â€“1981) under President Jimmy Carter, and as a United States Senator from...

Vladimir Pozner

Vladimir Vladimirovich Posner (born 1 April 1934) is a Russian/American best known in the West for appearing on television to represent and explain the views of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Bio taken from Wikipedia, accessed...

Mary McCahill and George Gallup Jr

Mary McCahill and George Gallup Jr. Photo credit Gerlinde Photography Mary McCahill (1907-1996) Mary McCahill was inducted in the Broward County Women's Hall of Fame in 1993, recognizing her contributions to Nova, the art museum, the...

John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith, OC (15 October 1908 â€“ 29 April 2006) was a Canadian and, later, American economist, public official, and diplomat, and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism. His books on economic topics...

John Kenneth Galbraith

Unknown man and John Kenneth Gilbraith John Kenneth Galbraith[a] OC (October 15, 1908 â€“ April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic...

John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith (October 15, 1908 â€“ April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through...

Philip Crane

Philip Cran with an unknown man. Philip Miller Crane (November 3, 1930 â€“ November 8, 2014) was an American politician. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 2005, representing the 8th...

David Brinkley

Lady and David Brinkley (in the back) and unknown man David McClure Brinkley (July 10, 1920 â€“ June 11, 2003) was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997. From 1956 through 1970, he co-anchored NBC's...

David Brinkley and Mary McCahill

David McClure Brinkley (July 10, 1920 â€“ June 11, 2003) was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997. From 1956 through 1970, he co-anchored NBC's top-rated nightly news program, The Huntleyâ€“Brinkley...

David Brinkley

David Brinkley second from the left Photo credit Gerlinde Photography David McClure Brinkley (July 10, 1920 â€“ June 11, 2003) was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997. From 1956 through 1970, he...

Malcolm S. Forbes, Jr.

Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes, Jr. (born July 18, 1947) is an American publishing executive who was twice a candidate for the nomination of the Republican Party for president. He is the editor-in-chief of business magazine Forbes...

Nan Farquhar and Steve Forbes

Nan Farquhar receiving an award from Steve Forbes. Nan Farquhar, wife of James Farquhar, founding father of Nova University. Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes Jr. ( born July 18, 1947) is an American publishing executive and politician, who...

Steve Forbes and Bobbe Schlesinger

Steve Fobes presenting an award to Bobbe Schlesinger. Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes Jr. ( born July 18, 1947) is an American publishing executive and politician, who is the Editor-in-Chief of Forbes, a business magazine. He is the son...

Steve Forbes and Ina Reed

Steve Forbes presents an award to Ina Reed. Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes Jr. (born July 18, 1947) is an American publishing executive and politician, who is the Editor-in-Chief of Forbes, a business magazine. He is the son of longtime...

Peggy Sudbrink and Steve Forbes

Peggy Sudbrink and Steve Forbes Peggy Sudbrink served as President of the Gold Circle of Nova Southeastern University, and President of the University of Miami Women's Guild of Broward County. Peggy was a member of and served on the boards...

Judy A Barringer and Steve Forbes

Steve Forbes handing an award to Judy A Barringer. Judy A Barringer is a Nova's Gold Circle Scholarship donor and member. Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes Jr. (born July 18, 1947) is an American publishing executive and politician, who is...

Steve Forbes

Steve Fobes presents an award to a gentleman. Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes Jr. (born July 18, 1947) is an American publishing executive and politician, who is the Editor-in-Chief of Forbes, a business magazine. He is the son of...

James Schlesinger

Unknown gentleman and James Schlesinger. James Rodney Schlesinger (February 15, 1929 â€“ March 27, 2014) was an American economist and public servant who was best known for serving as Secretary of Defense from 1973 to 1975 under Presidents...

James Schlesinger

James Schlesinger Photo credit Gerlinde Photography James Rodney Schlesinger (February 15, 1929 â€“ March 27, 2014) was an American economist and public servant who was best known for serving as Secretary of Defense from 1973 to 1975 under...

Lady Bird Johnson

Lady Bird Johnson, (December 22, 1912 â€“ July 11, 2007) Claudia Alta Taylor "Lady Bird" Johnson was First Lady of the United States, as the wife of the 36th President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson. Notably well-educated for a...

Colonel Frank Borman, II

Colonel Frank Borman, II (born March 14, 1928), (Col, USAF, Ret.), is a retired United States Air Force pilot, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, best remembered as the Commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to fly...

Joanne Johnsen

Joanne Johnsen of Nova's Gold Circle speaks at one of the Nova Forum lunches. Photo credit Gerlinde Photography

Dr. Stephen Goldstein

Two women look on as Dr. Stephen Goldstein speaks at a Nova Forum in Coral Springs, Florida. In the 1980s, Dr. Stephen Goldstein, Vice President of Community Relations, organized and began the Forum Series, a long-running tradition at Nova...

Irving Levine

Unknown and Irving Levine Irving Raskin Levine (August 26, 1922 â€“ March 27, 2009) was an American journalist and longtime correspondent for NBC News. During his 45-year career, Levine reported from more than two dozen countries. He was...

Leonard Silk

Leonard Solomon Silk (1918â€“1995) was an American economist, author, and journalist. Silk's diverse areas of interest included global economics, unemployment, banking, and inflation, among others. (Bio taken from Wikipedia, accessed...

Arthur Laffer

Arthur Laffer is on the left with an unknown man. Photo credit Gerlinde Photography Arthur Betz Laffer ( born August 14, 1940) is an American economist and author who first gained prominence during the Reagan administration as a member of...

Abe Fischler shaking hands with Zbigniew Brzeinski

Abraham S. Fischler (January 21, 1928 â€“ April 3, 2017) was an American academic and was the second president of Nova Southeastern University. Fischler graduated from Columbia University in 1959 with his Ed.D. He went on to serve as...

Ed Bradley

Edward Rudolph "Ed" Bradley, Jr. (June 22, 1941 â€“ November 9, 2006) was an American journalist, best known for 26 years of award-winning work on the CBS News television program 60 Minutes. During his earlier career he also covered the...

Ed Bradley

Ed Bradley and Linda Gill

Ed Bradley and Linda Gill Edward Rudolph "Ed" Bradley, Jr. (June 22, 1941 â€“ November 9, 2006) was an American journalist, best known for 26 years of award-winning work on the CBS News television program 60 Minutes. During his earlier...

Arthur B. Laffer

Arthur Betz Laffer (born August 14, 1940) is an American economist who first gained prominence during the Reagan administration as a member of Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board (1981â€“89). Laffer is best known for the Laffer curve...

Irving R. Levine

Irving Raskin Levine (August 26, 1922 â€“ March 27, 2009) was an American journalist and longtime correspondent for NBC News. During his 45-year career, Levine reported from more than two dozen countries. He was the first American...

Ellen Goodman

Ellen Goodman (born April 11, 1941) is an American journalist and syndicated columnist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1980. She is also a speaker and commentator. She is noted for being one of the first women in the United States to discuss...

Larry Speakes

Larry Melvin Speakes (September 13, 1939 â€“ January 10, 2014) was an acting press spokesman for the White Houseunder President Ronald Reagan, having held the position from 1981 to 1987. (Bio taken from Wikipedia, accessed 11/12/2014)

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski (born March 28, 1928) is a Polish American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman who served as a counsellor to Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966â€“1968 and held the position of United States National...

Raqual Ferrero and Admiral Stansfield Turner and unknown lady

Raquel Ferrero (on the left) and Admiral Stansfield Turner and unknown lady Raquel Ferreo, wife of Ray Ferrero, Jr. fifth president of Nova Southeastern University. Stansfield Turner (December 1, 1923 â€“ January 18, 2018) was an admiral...

Tip O'Neill

Thomas Phillip "Tip" O'Neill Jr. (December 9, 1912 â€“ January 5, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 47th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1987, representing northern Boston, Massachusetts...

Abe Fischler and William H. Sullivan

William Healy Sullivan (October 12, 1922 â€“ October 11, 2013) was an American Foreign Service career officer who served as Ambassador to Laos from 1964â€“1969, the Philippines from 1973â€“1977, and Iran from 1977â€“1979. Abraham S...

Howard K. Smith

Howard K. Smith (May 12, 1914 â€“ February 15, 2002) was an American journalist, radio reporter, television anchorman, political commentator, and film actor. He was one of the original Edward R. Murrow boys.

Abel Holtz

Abel Holtz (January 3, 1935 - July 3, 2021) was born in Placetas, Cuba. He graduated from the University of Havana in 1956 with accounting and law degrees. He practiced law in Havana for 5 years and as a result of Abel's representation of...

Larry Speakes

Unknown man and Larry Speakes Photo credit: Gerlinde Photography Larry Melvin Speakes (September 13, 1939 â€“ January 10, 2014) was the acting White House Press Secretary for the White House under President Ronald Reagan, having held the...

Henry Kissinger

Second from Left in the photograph. Henry Alfred Kissinger born Heinz Alfred Kissinger; May 27, 1923) is an American politician, diplomat, and geopolitical consultant who served as United States Secretary of State and National Security...

Abe Fischler_Sam Donaldson

Dr. Abraham Fischler and Philip Charles Habib

Diane Sawyer

Diane Sawyer ( born December 22, 1945) is an American television broadcast journalist known for anchoring major programs on two networks including ABC World News Tonight, Good Morning America, 20/20, and Primetime newsmagazine while at ABC...

Carol Weber

Journalist Carol Weber announces Diana Sawyer at the Nova University Forum luncheon.

Abe Fischler and William F Buckley and William Horavitz

William F. Buckley, Jr.

William Frank Buckley, Jr. (November 24, 1925 â€“ February 27, 2008) was an American conservative author and commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, which had a major impact in stimulating the conservative...

Howard K. Smith

Howard Kingsbury Smith (May 12, 1914 â€“ February 15, 2002) was an American journalist, radio reporter, television anchorman, political commentator, and film actor. He was one of the original Edward R. Murrow boys. (Bio taken from...

Philip C. Habib

Philip Charles Habib (February 25, 1920 â€“ May 25, 1992) was the most famous career diplomat in the world in the 1980s. He was best known for his work as Ronald Reagan's special envoy to the Middle East 1981-83. In that role he averted an...

Alexander M. Haig

Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr. (December 2, 1924 â€“ February 20, 2010) was a United States Army general who served as the United States Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan and White House Chief of Staff under Presidents Richard...

Diane Sawyer

Lila Diane Sawyer (born December 22, 1945) is the former anchor of ABC News's nightly flagship program ABC World News. Previously, Sawyer had been co-anchor of ABC News's morning news program Good Morning America and Primetime news...

Sam Donaldson

Samuel Andrew "Sam" Donaldson, Jr. (born March 11, 1934) is an American reporter and news anchor, serving with ABC News from 1967 to the present. He is best known as the network's White House Correspondent (1977â€“89 and 1998â€“99) and as...

Stansfield Turner

Stansfield M. Turner (born December 1, 1923) is a former United States Navy admiral and former Director of Central Intelligence and President of the Naval War College. He is currently a senior research scholar at the University of...

George Will

George Frederick Will (born May 4, 1941) is an American libertarian-conservative political commentator and author. He writes regular columns for The Washington Post and provides commentary for NBC News and MSNBC. In 1986, The Wall Street...

Lord Harold Wilson

James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, PC, FRS, FSS (11 March 1916 â€“ 24 May 1995) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from October 1964 to June 1970, and again from March...

Bobbe Schlesinger and Jimmy Carter

Barbara Schlesinger, known to all as Bobbe, was originally from Chelsea, MA, and was the daughter of Al and Tessie Butler. She came to South Florida to attend the University of Miami where she graduated in 1954. Throughout her life, she...

Thomas Phillip "Tip" O'Neill, Jr.

Thomas Phillip "Tip" O'Neill, Jr. (December 9, 1912 â€“ January 5, 1994) was an American politician and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1987.

William E. Colby

William E. Colby (January 4, 1920 â€“ April 27, 1996) spent a career in intelligence for the United States, culminating in holding the post of the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from September 1973 to January 1976. During World War...

Abe Fischler and Helmut Schmidt

Sam Donaldson and Dr. Stephen Goldstein

Samuel Andrew Donaldson Jr. (born March 11, 1934) is an American former reporter and news anchor, serving with ABC News from 1967 to 2013. He is best known as the network's White House Correspondent (1977â€“1989 and 1998â€“99) and as a...

Admiral Stansfield Turner

Stansfield Turner (December 1, 1923 â€“ January 18, 2018) was an admiral in the United States Navy who served as President of the Naval War College (1972â€“1974), commander of the United States Second Fleet (1974â€“1975), Supreme Allied...

Leonard Silk

Unknown lady with Leonard Silk. Courtesy of Gerlinde Photography Leonard Solomon Silk (1918â€“1995) was an American economist, author, and journalist. Silk's diverse areas of interest included global economics, unemployment, banking, and...

Abe Fischler and Admiral Stansfield Turner

Abe Fischler and Admiral Stansfield Turner. Photo credit Gerlinde Photography Abraham S. Fischler (January 21, 1928 â€“ April 3, 2017) was an American academic and was the second president of Nova Southeastern University. Fischler...

Alistair Cooke and Abe Fischler

Alistair Cooke KBE (20 November 1908 â€“ 30 March 2004) was a British-born American writer whose work as a journalist, television personality, and radio broadcaster was done primarily in the United States. Outside his journalistic output...

Beverly Sills

Beverly Sills (May 25, 1929 â€“ July 2, 2007) was an American operatic soprano whose peak career was between the 1950s and 1970s. Although she sang a repertoire from Handel and Mozart to Puccini, Massenet, and Verdi, she was especially...

Beverly Sills

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Jeane Kirkpatrick (November 19, 1926 â€“ December 7, 2006) was an American ambassador and an ardent anti-communist. After serving as Ronald Reagan's foreign policy adviser in his 1980 campaign and later in his Cabinet, the longtime...

Jeane Kirkpatrick and Ann Bishop

Jeane Duane Kirkpatrick (nÃ©e Jordan; November 19, 1926 â€“ December 7, 2006) was an American diplomat and political scientist who played a major role in the foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration. An ardent anti-communist, she...

Sir Edward Heath

Sir Edward Richard George Heath, KG MBE (9 July 1916 â€“ 17 July 2005) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from June 1970 to February 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. (Bio taken from Wikipedia, accessed...

Sir Edward Heath and Mary McCahill

Sir Edward Heath Sir Edward Richard George "Ted" Heath KG MBE (9 July 1916 â€“ 17 July 2005) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to...

Judith Martin

Judith Martin (nÃ©e Perlman, born September 13, 1938 ), better known by the pen name Miss Manners, is an American journalist, author, and etiquette authority. (Bio taken from Wikipedia, accessed 11/12/2014)

John Chancellor

John William Chancellor (July 14, 1927 â€“ July 12, 1996) was a well-known American journalist who spent most of his career with NBC News. He served as anchor of the NBC Nightly News from 1970 to 1982 and continued to do editorials and...

Helmut Schmidt

Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (born 23 December 1918) is a German Social Democratic (SPD) politician who served as Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. Prior to becoming Chancellor, he had served as Minister of Defence...

William Westmoreland

William Childs Westmoreland (March 26, 1914 â€“ July 18, 2005) was a United States Army four-star general. General Westmoreland was in command of all U.S. military operations in the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1968, including during the 1968...

Jack Anderson

Jack Anderson (Oct. 19, 1922-Dec. 17, 2005) was an American newspaper columnist, syndicated by United Features Syndicate, considered one of the fathers of modern investigative journalism. Awards- Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.

Alistair Cooke

Alistair Cooke (20 November 1908 â€“ 30 March 2004) was a British journalist, television personality and broadcaster. He was well known in the United States as the host of PBS Masterpiece Theatre from 1971 to 1992.

Beverly Sills

Beverly Sills (May 25, 1929 â€“ July 2, 2007) was an American operatic soprano whose peak career was between the 1950s and 1970s.

Claude Pepper and Mary McCahill

Claude Pepper and Mary McCahill Claude Denson Pepper (September 8, 1900 â€“ May 30, 1989) was an American politician of the Democratic Party and a spokesman for left-liberalism and the elderly. He represented Florida in the United States...

Abe Fischler shaking hands with Claude Pepper

Claude Pepper

A woman photographer with Senator Claude Pepper Claude Denson Pepper (September 8, 1900 â€“ May 30, 1989) was an American politician of the Democratic Party and a spokesman for left-liberalism and the elderly. He represented Florida in the...

Andrew Young, William Hyland, Arkady Shevchenko, James A. Schlesinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and David Brinkley

Nova University Roundtable

Pierre Salinger

Pierre Emil George Salinger (June 14, 1925 â€“ October 16, 2004) was a White House Press Secretary to U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Salinger served as a United States Senator in 1964 and wascampaign manager for the...

Eric Sevareid

Eric Sevareid (November 26, 1912-July 9, 1992) was a CBS news journalist from 1939 to 1977. He was one of a group of elite war correspondents hired by pioneering CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow, and thus dubbed "Murrow's Boys".

Ramsey Clark

Ramsey Clark is an American lawyer, activist and former public official. He worked for the U.S. Department of Justice, which included service as United States Attorney General from 1967 to 1969, under President Lyndon B. Johnson. He...

Hugh Downs

Hugh Downs is a long-time American broadcaster, television host, news anchor, TV producer, author, game show host, and music composer.

Elizabeth Ann "Betty" Ford

Elizabeth Ann "Betty" Ford (nÃ©e Bloomer; April 8, 1918 â€“ July 8, 2011) was First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977, as the wife of the 38th President of the United States, Gerald Ford. Ford was noted for raising breast cancer...

Louis Rukeyser

Louis Rukeyser (January 30, 1933 â€“ May 2, 2006) was an American financial journalist, columnist, and commentator, through print, radio, and television. He was best known for his role as host of two television series, Wall $treet Week...

James Watt

James Watt (born January 31, 1938) served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1981 to 1983. He was one of Ronald Reagan's most controversial cabinet appointments. He served as Secretary to the Natural Resources Committee and...

Abe Fischler and Alexander Haig

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922 â€“ April 11, 2007) was an American writer. His works blend satire, gallows humor, and science fiction. As a citizen, he was a lifelong supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union and a pacifist...

James Baldwin

James Baldwin (August 2, 1924 â€“ December 1, 1987) was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial...

Zbigniew Brzezinski

James R. Schlesinger

James Rodney Schlesinger (February 15, 1929 â€“ March 27, 2014) was an American economist and public servantwho was best known for serving as Secretary of Defense from 1973 to 1975 under Presidents Richard Nixon andGerald Ford. He became...

Francis Lee Bailey Jr.

Francis Lee Bailey Jr., commonly referred to as F. Lee Bailey, is an American former attorney. For most of his career, he was licensed in Massachusetts and Florida. He was a criminal defense attorney who served as the lawyer in the...

Dr. Joyce Brothers

Dr. Joyce Brothers (October 20, 1927 â€“ May 13, 2013) was an American psychologist, television personality and columnist, who wrote a daily newspaper advice column from 1960 to 2013.

The Wednesday Luncheon Forum, 1983-1984

Ann Landers was a pen name created by Chicago Sun-Times advice columnist Ruth Crowley in 1943 and taken over by Eppie Lederer in 1955. For 56 years, the Ask Ann Landers syndicated advice column was a regular feature in many newspapers...

David Brinkley

David McClure Brinkley (July 10, 1920 â€“ June 11, 2003) was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997. (Bio taken from Wikipedia, accessed 11/12/2014)

George Gallup, Jr.

George Horace Gallup, Jr. (April 9, 1930 â€“ November 21, 2011) was an American pollster, writer and executive at The Gallup Organization, which had been founded by his father, George Gallup. Gallup expanded the scope of theGallup Poll to...

In the 1980s, Dr. Stephen Goldstein, Vice President of Community Relations, organized and began the Forum Series, a long-running tradition at Nova Southeastern University. The Forum Series consisted of a luncheon or dinner along with a distinguished speaker who came to discuss their life and work with members of the Nova Southeastern University community as well as Broward County residents.

Many of the Forum speakers were immortalized in paintings by various artists. These illustrations, occasionally signed by the speaker, are presented here for viewing.

The collection will continue to grow as staff of the NSU Archives unearth additional artwork, digitize and upload them to this series. Staff are also working to build out the accompanying information with each image. If you have any additional information to add, please feel free to contact the NSU Archives at 954-262-4642 or nsuworks@nova.edu

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