Distinguished Visitors to Ohio University
Italics indicate individuals whose visits are
recognized
with plaques on the West Portico wall at Templeton-Blackburn Memorial
Auditorium.
| Arts,
Letters, Sciences |
Anderson, Marian
Vocalist, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient | February
17, 1960 | Anthony,
Susan B.
Women's Rights, temperance, abolition activist | October
19, 1878 | Boorstin, Daniel
Historian and Librarian of Congress | January 15,
1987 | Buck, Pearl
Frist American Woman Winner, Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature |
January 12, 1966
April 19-20, 1966 | Conant, James B.
President of Harvard University | June 9, 1947 |
Czeslaw, Milosz
Poet and Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature | May
8-10, 1991 | Ellington, (Edward Kennedy) Duke
Musician, Presidential Medal of Freedom, NAACP Springarn Medal recipient |
October 14, 1961 | Frost,
Robert
Poet | October 24, 1938
March 30, 1960 | Hoffman, Roald
Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry | November 18,
1991 | Lederman, Leon
Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics | November 1, 1994 |
Mead,
Margaret
Anthropologist, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient | January
10, 1963 | Pinsky, Robert
Poet Laureate of the US | April 11, 2000 |
Rabi,
Isador
Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics | November 21, 1963 |
Robeson,
Paul
Vocalist | February 9, 1942 |
Sandberg, Carl
Poet | October 29, 1935 |
Singer, Issac
Bashevis
Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature, Gold Medal for Fiction
|
April 23, 1975 | Stormer, Horst
Nobel Prize Co-Laureate in Physics | May 16, 2001 |
Toynbee, Arnold
Historian | May 3, 1963 |
Weisel, Elie
Author and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | May 9, 1988 |
| Return
to top | |
| | |
| International
Figures | Bunche,
Ralph
UnderSecretary of the United Nations and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate |
November 13, 1959 | Glenn,
John
First American to Orbit the Earth, later US Senator from Ohio |
February 17, 1964 | Hammarskjold,
Dag
Secretary-General of the United Nations (1953-61) | February
5, 1958 | King,
Jr., Martin Luther
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Civil Rights Leader | December
30, 1959 | Roosevelt,
Eleanor
US Representative to the United Nations and former First Lady |
April 26, 1954 | Williams,
Betty
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate from Northern Ireland | September
10, 2001 | | Return to top | |
| | |
| US
Federal Government Leaders |
Bricker,
John W.
US Senator from Ohio | June 12, 1955 |
Bryan, William Jennings
Presidential candidate and US Secretary of State | October
26, 1915 | Carter,
James E. (Jimmy)
President of the US (1977-1981) | May 11, 1989 |
Clark, Tom C.
Justice of the US Supreme Court | January 4, 1967 |
Clinton,
Hillary
First Lady of the US (1993-2001), Senator from New York | October
1992
October 24, 1996
June 14, 1997 | Douglas,
William O.
Justice of the Supreme Court of the US | June 9,
1946
May 7, 1963 | Eisenhower,
Dwight D.
President of the US (1953-1961) | October 5, 1965 |
Fulbright, J.
William
US Senator form Arkansas | April 22, 1985 |
Gingrich,
Newt
Speaker of the US House of Representatives | June
13, 1998 | Hayes, Rutherford B.
Governor of Ohio and ex-officio trustee
Later President of the US (1877 - 1881) | July 1876 |
Harding, Warren G.
President of the US (1921-1923) | September 2, 1916 |
Hoover, Herbert
President of the US (1929-1933) | October 28, 1932 |
Johnson, Lyndon
Baines
President of the US (1963-1969) | May 7, 1964 |
Kennedy, John F.
US Senator from Massachusetts
later President of the US (1961-1963) | September
18, 1959 | McKinley,
William
Governor of Ohio and ex-officio trustee
later President of the US (1897-1901) | October 3,
1891 | McNamara,
Robert S.
US Secretary of Defense | June 6, 1965 |
Morse,
Wayne
US Senator from Oregon | April 9-10, 1965 |
Nelson,
Gaylord
US Senator form Wisconsin | July 16, 1970 |
Randolph,
Jennings
US Senator form West Virginia | April 24-26, 1985 |
Riley,
Richard
US Secretary of Education | June 10, 1995 |
Roosevelt, Theodore
President of the US (1901-1909) | May 17, 1912 |
Rusk, Dean
US Secretary of State | December 2, 1966 |
Shriver,
Robert Sargent
Former head of the Peace Corps, Ambassador to France | April
24-26, 1985 | Taft,
Robert A.
US Senator from Ohio | June 11, 1950 |
Taft, William Howard
President of the US (1909-1913) | August 29, 1908 |
Yarborough,
Ralph
US Senator from Texas | May 9, 1966 |
| Return to top |
|
|
im | chat | phone |e-mail