“The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.”
“I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.”
| Amos Bronson Alcott, Educator (1799) |
| Louisa May Alcott, Novelist (1832) |
| John D. Barrow, Scientist (1952) |
| Brian Baumgartner, Actor (1972) |
| Kim Delaney, Actress (1961) |
| Taisen Deshimaru, Philosopher (1914) |
| Rahm Emanuel, Politician (1959) |
| Harry Essex, Writer (1910) |
| Anna Faris, Actress (1976) |
| John Ambrose Fleming, Inventor (1849) |
| William Cartwright, Dramatist (1643) |
| Dorothy Day, Activist (1980) |
| Louis Finkelstein, Clergyman (1991) |
| Dan Flavin, Sculptor (1996) |
| George Harrison, Musician (2001) |
| Thomas Hewitt Key, Writer (1875) |