Francis Blouin spearheaded an effort to have Nobel Peace Prize winners visit Walsh's campus. Visitors included: Mother Teresa in 1982,[43] Willy Brandt in 1983,[44] Coretta Scott King (representing her late husband Martin Luther King Jr.) in 1986,[45] Adolfo Pérez Esquivel in 1986,[46] and Elie Wiesel in 1987.[47]