Theo Epstein, left, with Brian Cashman on January 25, 2008

For the past twenty-eight years, the series has added to the cultural richness of northern New Jersey by presenting such speakers as New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, film directors Oliver

Stephen Sondheim on February 15, 2008

Stone and Spike Lee, performer Gregory Hines, and writers Alice Walker and Joyce Carol Oates to approximately one hundred thousand audience members who have attended DLS since its inception. Over this time, nearly one hundred business entities and individuals have provided the funding needed so that audiences could personally encounter, at affordable ticket prices, the more than one hundred public figures who have come to the University.

Here is a complete list of lecturers who have attended DLS since its inauguration on February 11, 1980.

From left to right, Steve Adubato with Mayors Douglas H. Palmer of Trenton, Jose "Joey" Torres of Paterson, and Jerramiah T. Healy of Jersey City, on March 14, 2008

Susan Molinari and Harold Ford, Jr., right, with Alfred Doblin, on October 26, 2007