"The American Lyceum Association was founded in 1831 by American statesman Daniel Webster and educator Josiah Holbrook. The Latin word “Lyceum” comes from the Greek word “Lykeion” which referred to the school outside Athens where Aristotle taught from 325 to 323 B.C."

My step-grandfather, Harry Byrd Kline, was President of the International Platform Association in 1951. His politics and character were as strange as the list of honored speakers earning the Silver Bowl...

For much of the 20th Century, IPA Silver Bowl awards have recognized a rich, diverse galaxy of political leaders, authors, performers, scientists, journalists, musicians, business leaders and philosophers who have made significant contributions to the intellectual life of America.

Some of the Silver Bowl winners, both living and departed, have included luminaries such as:

Lowell Thomas
John F. Kennedy
Bob Hope
Henry Kissinger
Victor Borge
Jack Anderson
Glenn T. Seaborg
Winston Churchill
William F. Buckley
John Wayne
Pearl Bailey
Elizabeth Taylor
Tom Brokaw
Edwin Newman
Robert C. Byrd
David Brinkley
Malcolm S. Forbes
Art Linkletter
Erma Bombeck
Barbara Walters
Art Buchwald
Danny Kaye
Ann Landers
Hyman Rickover
Ralph Nader
Ted Turner
George Gallup, Jr.
Arthur Goldberg
Lyndon B. Johnson
Robert Dole
John Denver
Dick Cavett
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
William Safire
Harry Reasoner
Justin Dart
Carl Sagan
Drew Pearson
Seymour Hersh
Earl Warren
Isaac Asimov
James D. Feldman
Richard M. Nixon
Claude Pepper
Mario Cuomo
Larry King
Howard Jarvis
Leon Jawarski
Jean Michael Cousteau
Minnie Pearl
Jose Grego
Rod McKuen
C. Everett Koop
Jean Sheppard
F. Lee Bailey
Harry Blackstone, Jr.
Hal Bruno
Lawrence Spivak
Wolf Blitzer
George Plimpton
William Proxmire
Alexander Haig
William E. Simon
J. Peter Grace
Tom Bradley
William H. Webster
James Schlesinger
Warren B. Rudman
Edwin Meese
William French Smith
Penn and Teller
Hal Holbrook
Stephen J. Gould
J.W. Marriott
Pat Boone

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what a gang of misfits!!!