Founding Day Addresses
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2010 A Sense of Wonder: Rachel Carson, Sandhya Tillotson, July 3
2009 Faith and Reason in the American Founding Vision, Dr. Carolyn Dorrance, July 4,
2008 New Paradigms for a Sustainable Life on Earth: Linking Biology and Religion with Interspirituality,
Dr. Ed Bastian, July 5, 2008
2007 A Republic of Mind and Spirit, Dr. Catherine Albanase, June 23, 2007
2006 Humanity's Future: Creating a Global Republic of Conscience, Frank K. Kelly, July 1, 2006
2005 Immigrant Expressions of the American Dream, Franchesca Cleyet, Ingrid Head and others, July 2, 2005
2004 The Quaker Vision of Universal Welfare, Jeannine Herron, and members of the Society of Friends
2003 Emerson "The Promise of American" and Lincoln "The Last Best Hope of Earth", Dr. Dan McCaslin, July 5, 2003
2002 American Transcendentalists, Dr. Carolyn Dorrance, July 6, 2002
2001 History and Cultural Era of the Mortimer J. Cook House, Mr. Neal Graffy, July 7, 2001
2000 Your Oyster Is Your World: The Narcissism of Globalization in American Culture, Dr. P. Scott Corbett, July 1, 2000
1999 The Politics of Peace, Babatunde Folayemi, July 3, 1999
1998 Ecological Civilization: Patterns and Possibilities, Paul Relis, July 4, 1998
1997 The Revenge of God: Counter-Secularization in India and the United States, Dr. Gerald James Larson, July 5, 1997
1996 The United Nations at Fifty: A Look Toward the Millennium, Dr. Manou Eskandari, July 6, 1996
1995 James Madison and American Democracy, Dr. Robert Casier, July 1, 1995
1994 Jeffersonian Principles in a Global Environment, Dr. Walter H. Capps, July 2, 1994
1993 Visions of the Progressive Society, Dr. Carolyn Dorrance, July 3, 1993
1992 Bellamy: Looking Backward, Dr. Michael Kiley, July 4, 1992
1991 Emerson and Self-Reliance, Gerry Kiffe, July 4, 1991
1990 Thomas Jefferson and the Ideals of Freedom, Christopher Raiter, July 4, 1990
1989 Civic Virtue: Benjamin Franklin and the Present, Steven Hollander, July 4, 1990
1988 Walt Whitman: The Republic of Universal Man, Joseph Miller, July 4, 1988
1987 The Constitution and the American Dream, Dr. Brian McMorrow, July 4, 1987
1986 Booker T. Washington & Learning in America, S. Joe Woodruff, July 4, 1986
1985 World Citizenship, Charles LaFrance, July 4, 1985
1984 Abraham Lincoln and the American Dream, Ron Harkey, July 4, 1984
1983 Freemasonry and the Founding of America, Dr. James Tepfer, July 4, 1983
1982 Leadership in the Republic of Conscience, Kilian Coster, July 3, 1982
1981 Thomas Paine and the Trials of a Nation, Dr. Michael Kiley, July 4, 1981
1980 Natural Law and Constitutionalism, Robert Sabini, July 4, 1980
1979 The Republic of Conscience, Dr. Carolyn Dorrance, July 4, 1979
1978 The Relevance of the American Dream, Philip Grant, July 4, 1978
1977 The Ideal of Fraternity in America, Kent Ferguson, July 4, 1977
1976 Declaration of Interdependence, Dr. Raghavan Iyer, July 4, 1976