The series arranged for guest lectures and art performances on a semi-regular basis during a season than ran from fall to spring the next year.
"Through this series it is the club's purpose to bring to the membership impartial discussion of important events of the day by outstanding authorities.
[3] On November 29, 1930, Admiral Richard Byrd appeared before an audience of about 2000 at the Kohler Recreation Hall to talk about his flight over the south pole a year earlier.
Growing popularity of some of the musical events that were opened to the public necessitated that they be held at the Kohler Recreation Hall.
Lena Madesin Phillips – Oct 16, 1944[12] Channing Pollock – November 1, 1944[13] Osa Johnson – Dec 6, 1944[14] Margaret Culkin Banning – October 1, 1945[15] Trapp Family Singers – Feb 26, 1946[16] Nora Waln – April 3, 1946[17] George Papashvily – April 17, 1946[18] Franklin Pierce Adams – Nov 5, 1946[19] Erika Mann – Nov 5, 1946[20] Admiral Richard Byrd – Oct 22, 1947[21] Susan Reed – Nov 19, 1947[22] Dorothy Thompson – Dec 3, 1947[23] Kurt Schuschnigg – Jan 7, 1947[24] Vivien Kellems – Jan 28, 1948[25] De Paur's Infantry Chorus- Feb 15, 1947[26] John Ott – March 17, 1948[27] Jesse Stuart – April 14, 1948[28] Anna Russell – Oct 6, 1948[29] Raymond Moley – Oct 20, 1948 John Erskine – Nov 8, 1948 Norman Vincent Peale – Jan 19, 1949[30] Otto von Habsburg – Feb 16, 1949[31] Ruth Bryan Owen – March 9, 1949[32] Joe E. Brown – April 24, 1949[33] Ilka Chase – Oct 19, 1949[34] Adolphe Menjou – Oct 25, 1949[35] William Bradford Huie – Nov 16, 1949[36] Burl Ives – Dec 6, 1949[37] Dorothy Liebes – Jan 18, 1950[38] Peter II of Yugoslavia – Jan 10, 1950[39] Alec Templeton – March 15, 1950 Hildegarde – Oct 21, 1950[40] Mary Garden – Jan 24, 1951[41] Ernestine Gilbreth Carey – Feb 14, 1951[42] Clare Boothe Luce – Feb 26, 1951[43] Vera Maxwell – Oct 3, 1951[44] Carleton Smith – Oct 17, 1951[45] Camille Kelley – January 16, 1952[46] Hedda Hopper – April 2, 1952[47] Nelson Eddy – April 15, 1952[48] Princess Ileana of Romania – April 23, 1952[49] William F. Buckley, Jr. Oct 8, 1952[50] Leslie Bell Singers – Oct 22, 1952[5] Elsa Lanchester and Ray Henderson, – Nov 2, 1952[51] Rosita Forbes – Nov 19, 1952[52] Richard Gump – Jan 21, 1953[53] Harry Emerson Fosdick – Feb 4, 1953[54] Margaret Bourke-White – Feb 18, 1953[55] Oscar Levant – March 5, 1953[56] Bertita Harding – April 15, 1953[57] Gershwin Concert Orchestra with Lorin Maazel,Jesús Maria Sanromá, Carolyn Long, andTheodor Uppman – May 10, 1953[58] Lloyd Wendt – Oct 28, 1953[60] Guard Republican Band of Paris Nov 21, 1953[61] William Warfield March 7, 1954[62] Robert Shaw Chorale – Oct 3, 1954[63] Obernkirchen Children's Choir – Oct 17, 1954[64] Salzburg Marionettes – Nov 3, 1954[65] Harlan Tarbell – Jan 22, 1955[66] Fulton Lewis – Feb 12, 1955[67] Dorothy Maynor – Mar 1, 1955[68] K. C. Wu – March 16, 1955[69] Marie Powers – Oct 22, 1955[71] William Montgomery McGovern – Nov 16, 1955[72] Nikolai Khokhlov – Dec 7, 1955[73] Jean Ritchie – Feb 1, 1956[74] Jascha Heifetz – March 4, 1956[75] John D. Craig – March 21, 1956[76] Eileen Farrell – April 13, 1956[77] Camilla Williams with Todd Duncan – Jan 12, 1957[78] Hazel Scott – Feb 12, 1957[79] Winged Victory – March 9, 1957[80] Mark W. Clark – Nov 30, 1957[81] Josef Traxel – Jan 12, 1958[82] Norman Garbo – Jan 22, 1958[83] Hilde Gueden – Feb 16, 1958[84] Purdue Varsity Glee Club – March 22, 1958[85] Joyce Brothers – Nov 19, 1958[87] Cesare Siepi – Nov 29, 1958[88] Mary Martin – Jan 12, 1959[89] Erroll Garner – Feb 18, 1959[90] Jarmila Novotná – March 18, 1959[91] Willy Ley – April 13, 1959[92] Duke of Bedford – Oct 28, 1959[93] Irmgard Seefried – Nov 21, 1959[94] Barry Langford – Jan 27, 1960[95] Marian Anderson – March 5, 1960[96] Boston Opera Group – March 16, 1960[97] Munro Leaf – April 20, 1960[98] Don Freeman – Oct 19, 1960[99] J.B. feat.