Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. American former astronaut, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot. The second person to walk on the Moon after mission commander Neil Armstrong. Met in the mid-2000s at the San Diego Air & Space Museum.

Walter Cronkite,  CBS anchor, "the most trusted man in America." Met in the late 1960s outside a restaurant. I was so nervous I could barely speak. He graciously gave me his autograph while his family climbed into a station wagon.

Frances Farmer, iconic and troubled film star. Met in 1964, on a tour of a local TV station in Indy, where she hosted the afternoon movie, her last gig. She sat in a glamorous dressing room, facing a mirror bathed in light. True classic Hollywood elegance.

Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. An American politician, environmental lawyer, author, 26th United States Secretary of HHS. Son of Senator and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and a nephew of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Ted Kennedy. Shared a dinner table at a telecommunications conference held at The Greenbrier in 1984.

John Thomas Myers, American military veteran and Indiana 7th district member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1967 to 1997.  Served as an intern the summer of 1976, the Bicentennial. It was so crowded my tiny desk sat in the secured storage area in his private office. A true statesman.

Colonel Harland Sanders, founder of KFC. Met at the 1965 Indy 500. As with Walter Cronkite, another parking lot encounter, another autograph, and another family getting back into a station wagon. He was wearing the suit. Didn't see any buckets of chicken, however.

Pandit Ravi Shankar. An Indian sitar virtuoso and composer, he became the world's best-known exponent of Indian classical music. Saw him perform at Wabash College in 1975.

Peter Yarrow, Mary Travers, Paul Stookey. "Peter, Paul and Mary" was an American folk group formed in New York City in 1961 during the American folk music revival. Saw them perform in 1965.