Canisius College

The William H. Fitzpatrick Chair of Political Science Lecture Series

October 21, 1996 
Bill Bradley
U.S. Senator from New Jersey
 
February 13, 1997 
Dr. Larry J. Sabato
Election Analyst
 
February 20, 1997 
Susan Molinari
Congresswoman, 13th District of N.Y.

Bill Paxon
Congressman, 27th District of N.Y.
 
March 20, 1997 
Kweisi Mfume
President & Chief Executive Officer, NAACP
 
February 25, 1999 
Rev. Bernice A. King
Renowned orator and author
 
April 15, 1999 
James W. Michaels
Group Vice President/Editorial of Forbes
 
November 15, 1999 
Senator Charles E. Schumer
United States Senate (D-New York)
 
February 11, 2000 
Dr. Cornel West
Professor of Religion and Afro-American Studies
Harvard University

March 5, 2001
Joe Slade White

August 30, 2001
Jack Quinn
NY Congressman

February 12, 2002
Morris Dees
Civil Rights Attorney

March 6, 2002
Mark Shields
Political correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

February 11, 2003
Dr. Mary Frances Berry
Commissioner on the U.S.Civil Rights Commission 1980
Chair, Civil Rights Commission, 1993

April 3, 2003
General Anthony Zinni
Marine General and Mideast Peace Envoy

February 23, 2004
Dr Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Professor of Communications, Annenberg School for Communications and Walter and Leonore Annenberg Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania

September 23, 2004
Richard Benedetto
White House Correspondent and  columnist for USA Today

October 14, 2004
DeeDee Meyers
Former White House Press Secretary
First woman to serve as White House Press secretary.

2005
No Speakers

April 18, 2006
John Kasich
Former U.S. Congressman and host of the Television show,The Heartland with John Kasich.

February 1, 2007
Michael F. Scheuer '74, PhD
Former CIA officer and CBS news terrorism analyst

The Frank G. Raichle Lecture Series on Law in American Society

March 18, 1996 
Hon. Janet Reno
Attorney General of the United States
 
April 17, 1996 
Hon. Harry T. Edwards
Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
 
April 10, 1997 
John H. Langbein
Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and Legal History
Yale Law School
 
April 27, 1998 
Lloyd N. Cutler
Former Counsel to the President of the United States
Partner in law firm Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington D.C.
 
September 27, 1999 
Samuel Dash
Professor of Law
Director of the Institute of Criminal Law and Procedure
Georgetown University Law Center

March 29, 2001
Rt. Hon. Lord Geoffrey Howe
Member of Britain's House of Lords

April 25, 2002
Chief Justice Charles T. Wells
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida

April 23, 2003
The Honorable Alex Kozinski
U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit

April 20, 2004
Dr. James Q. Wilson
Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University

October 27, 2005
Douglas M. Kmiec
Professor of Law
Former Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, US Dept of Justice

October 24, 2006
Jeffrey Rosen
Professor of Law
George Washington University
Legal Affairs editor of New Republic Magazine
Author

October 26, 2007
John C. Yoo
Professor of Law
Berkeley School of Law
Previous member of Office of Legal Counsel,
U.S. Justice Department

Martin Luther King, Jr. Awards/Speakers

1996 
Willie Mae Frazler - Staff Award
Stanley L. Purdie - Student Award
Patricia A. Rissmeyer - Administrative Award
Julia L. Wescott- Faculty Award
 
1997 
Kathryn E. Philliben - Administrative Award
Terrence P. Bisson - Faculty Award
Sgt. Gwendolyn L. Johnson - Staff Award
Yolanda R. Beaton - Student Award
Kweisi Mfume - Speaker
 
1999 
Dr. Ruben Gomez - Faculty Award
Mr. Joe Van Volkenburg - Administrative Award
Mrs. Elaine Mrugala - Staff Award
Ms. Gerry Muir, MS ’99 - Gradutate Student Award
Ms. LaShekia Chatman ’99 - Student Award
Mr. Sababu C. Norris - Special Appreciation
Rev. Bernice A. King - Speaker
 
2000 
William St. Jean ’00- Student Award
Rev. Benjamin Fiore, S.J.- Faculty Award
Sr. Patricia Brady, SSMN- Administrative/Staff Award
Dr. Cornel West - Speaker
 
2001 
Susan L. Taylor - Speaker
 
2002
Elizabeth Bocchino '02 - Student Award
Dr. Kenneth Sroka, Dr. E. Roger Stephenson - Faculty Award
Patricia Grasso - Staff Award
Dr. Ellen Conley - Administrator Award

2003 
Kathy Riley '03 - Student Award
Mary Pat Leahy - Staff Award
Peter Koehneke - Faculty Award
Rev. Vincent M. Cooke, S.J. - Administrator Award

2004
Hon. Hugh Scott - Special Appreciation Award
Dr. Calvin O. Butts III - Speaker

2005
Aamina Edwards - Student Award
Evangeline Powell - Staff Award
LaVerne M. Seales-Saley, PhD. - Faculty Award

2006
Danielle Esposito - Student Award
Dr. Jerome Neuner - Administrator Award
Dr. Michael Gent - Faculty Award

2007
Brian Ricci - Student Award
Gary Everett - Administrator Award
Dr. Charles Schmidtke - Faculty Award

Business Awards Dinner Speakers

1995 
Sal H. Alfiero
Chairman & CEO of Mark IV Industries, Inc.
 
Clement R. Arrison
President of Mark IV Industries, Inc.
 
1996 
Marguerite Dispenza Hambleton
President & CEO of AAA Western & Central New York
 
1997 
Brian J. Lipke
Chairman, President & CEO of Gibraltar Steel Corporation
 
1998  
Paul S. Bush
Chairman of the Board, President & CEO of Bush Industries, Inc.
 
1999 
Patrick P. Lee
Chairman of International Motion Control, Inc.

2001
Gerald C. Saxe
President, Matthews, Bartlett and Dedeker, Inc.

2002
Randall L. Clark
Chairman, Dunn Tire Corporation

2003
Mr. Peter F. Hunt
President and CEO
Hunt Real Estate Corporation

2004
Andrew W. Dorn
President and CEO
Greater Buffalo Savings Bank

Dr. George E. Schreiner Pre-Medical Center Distinguished Speaker Series

April 25, 1996 
John W. Rowe, M.D.
President, Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Mount Sinai Hospital
New York City, NY
 
April 24, 1997 
Herbert A. Hauptman, Ph.D. - Recipient of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
President, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute
Buffalo, NY

April 30, 1998 
Joginder N. Bhayna, M.D.
Director of Heart Valve Center and attending Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Buffalo General Hospital
 
April 29, 1999 
Lawrence Jacobs, M.D.
Professor of Neurology, University at Buffalo
Head of the Department of Neurology, Buffalo General Hospital
Chief of the Baird Multiple Sclerosis Research Center, Millard Fillmore Hospital
First Holder of the Irvin and Rosemary Smith Chair in Neurology
University at Buffalo

April 29, 2003
Dr. Eli A. Friedman
Distinguaished teaching professor of medicine and chief of the Renal Disease Division, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center