Walter H. Annenberg — businessman; statesman; publisher; philanthropist, The Annenberg Foundation
Arthur Ashe — tennis legend; educator; social activist; organizer, Artists and Athletes Against Apartheid
Dr. Marguerite Ross Barnett — educator; political scientist; administrator; first woman and first African American president, University of Houston
Dr. Ernest Boyer Sr. — educator; scholar; president, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; U.S. Commissioner of Education; chancellor, SUNY; recipient, Charles Frankel Prize in the Humanities
Gwendolyn Brooks — educator; poet laureate, Illinois; first African American Pulitzer Prize winner, poetry; 1994 Jefferson Lecturer, National Endowment for the Humanities, the highest award in the humanities given by the U.S. federal government
Claude Brown — author, Manchild in the Promised Land
