Elden and Patricia Erickson
State Department of the United States and United States Foreign Service (Ret.)

Jane Renner Hood
Executive Director, Nebraska Humanities Council

Jim Halsey
Oklahoma State University, Music as a Business

Richard D. Lamm
Former Governor of Colorado, Head of the Center for Public Policy and Contemporary Issues, University of Denver

Alexander Ivanko
Senior Spokesman for the United Nations Protection Force in Bosnia

Gustav H. Blanke
Professor Emeritus of American Studies
University of Mainz, Germany

Charles de Vere
The Earl of Burford, Shakespeare Scholar

Howard Martin
Director of Education
Missouri Repertory Theatre

Heather McNeil
Author and Storyteller

Donna A. Lopiano
Executive Director
Women's Sports Foundation

Debra Vogt
Orphan Train Storyteller

'We Are Your Sisters'
Off-Broadway Theatre Presentation of
Women and Slavery

John E. Roueche
Director of Community College Leadership Program
University of Texas

David Wright
Author, Knox College

Benjamin Jacobs
'The Dentist of Auschwitz'

Kevin Saunders
Wheelchair Olympic Pentathlon Medalist

Dr. Bradley Shaw
Director of the International and Area Studies
Kansas State University

David Bloom
NBC News Correspondent and
Co-anchor of the Weekend Today Show

Dr. Mary Lee Cochran
Flute and Music History
Kansas State University
'Women in Ragtime'

Col. E. M. 'Marty' Hauser
Reserve Advisor to the Director of Air Force Public Affairs for The Pentagon, Washington, D.C.

Gary Staab
Sculptor and Illustrator

Pippa White
One's Company

Angela Bates
Professional Historian and Presenter

Bill Schaffer
Director & Producer, KTWU PBS, Washburn University

Alborada
South American Folk Music

Decadancetheatre
Girl hip-hop dance troupe

Mont Alto Motion Picture Theatre Orchestra
The Mark of Zorro

Susan Marie Frontczak
A Living History of Madame Marie Currie

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
'Every Voice Counts: The Importance of Citizen Participation.'

Thomas Frank
'What's the Matter with Kansas?'

Dr. Bill Simpson
Historian: 'Bonnie & Clyde and the Gangs of the 1930's'

Mona Mwakalinga
Filmmaker, aids activist

Acrobats from the Peoples Republic of China
Fabulous Chinese Dancers

Tissa Hami
Muslin stand-up comédianne: 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Mosque'

Kevin Roberts
'The Food Dude'

Carl Bernstein
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist: 'The Media State: the Rise and Triumph of Idiot Culture in America'

Peter Nestler
The Rope Master

Acrobats from Africa
Famous Africa Acrobats