Honorary Degree Recipients
The following is a list of the distinguished men and women whom we have been privileged to have had speak at Commencement and upon whom we have conferred honorary degrees.
| 1926 | William H. Compton |
| 1927 |
Harold W. West Mary A. Hooper Newton A. K. Bugbee |
| 1928 |
A. Harry Moore Bernice A. Gee '17 Martin Henry Thomas Sadie L. Ziegler '09 |
| 1929 |
Chauncey DeV. Eversfield Clair F. Bee Sr. Francis M. Dowd Frank A. Souders |
| 1930 |
George R. Gerard Samuel Sharkey Willard Schwab William J. Couse |
| 1931 |
A. Crozer Reeves Clarence V. Sloan |
| 1932 | James Noone Connolly |
| 1933 | George J. Smith Howard W. Letts J. Harold Lucas John F. Meagher |
| 1934 | Richard W. Elsea Walter R. Darby |
| 1935 |
Albert Samuel Davis Carl K. Withers Walter F. Nutt |
| 1936 |
John A. Campbell Justine Oakley |
| 1937 |
Christopher A. Gough |
| 1939 |
A. Harry Moore Harold Giles Hoffman James Elliott Mooney Mildred Montgomery Mooney |
| 1940 | James Robinson Erwin Joseph Godfrey Buch |
| 1941 | David Lloyd Milman Ida Boffey Bacon Irwin A. Conroe |
| 1942 | John Robert Gregg |
| 1943 | Arthur W. Magee Colonel Cassius M. Dowell |
| 1944 |
Rear Admiral Charles E. Rosendahl Thor Thors Walter E. Edge William J. Ellis |
| 1945 |
Robert H. Morrison Thomas Howard Winters |
| 1947 | Alfred E. Driscoll Charles P. Messick Fred Van Deventer |
| 1948 |
Charles E. Murphy General Edward C. Rose Harry L. Derby Lowell Thomas Prosper Buranelli |
| 1949 | John H. Bosshart Theodore R. McKeldin |
| 1950 | Chester Robbins Fernando Berckemeyer Grace A. Dunn James Albert Michener Joseph James O'Connell Louis Kroner Phillips Moore W. Paul Stillman |
| 1951 |
Alben W. Barkley Arthur Godfrey Delos W. Rentzel Edmund Harris Kase John Fairfield Sly |
| 1952 |
Bertha Lawrence Karl E. Mundt |
| 1953 | Frederick M. Raubinger Ivy Baker Priest |
| 1954 |
Earle M. Rader Homer E. Capehard Paul Loser Stanley Switlik |
| 1955 |
Hortense F. Kessler Robert B. Meyner Robert W. Van Houten |
| 1956 |
Frederick M. Adams George R. Hill '32 James E. Van Zandt |
| 1957 |
Alan Bible H. Alexander Smith Styles Bridges |
| 1958 |
Elmer H. Bobst J. Stuart Hill Major General Bernard A. Schriever |
| 1959 | Clifford P. Case Fred G. Holloway Harold W. West Joseph W. Crosby |
| 1960 |
James A. McFadden Thurston Ballard Morton |
| 1961 | Elmer W. Engstrom Henry Joseph Parcinskii Robert William Semenow |
| 1962 | Frank Thompson Jr. James P. Stewart Ossian MacKenzie |
| 1963 |
James Creese Louis Andrew Leslie Richard J. Hughes |
| 1964 |
Harold Ray '20 John L. Lincoln Leland J. Haworth Leonard A. Olson '30 Mason Welch Gross |
| 1965 | Byron R. White Harrison A. Williams Jr. Walter R. Staub William J. Baumol |
| 1966 | George H. Gallup Sr. Henry Chauncey Mary G. Roebling Millard E. Gladfelter Paul Sanford Lomax |
| 1967 | Crawford Jamieson Ernest A. Gross Frederick Moore Binder Lindley Joseph Stiles Virgil W. Gillenwater |
| 1968 | Edward E. Booher Peter Jennings Philip H. Wilkie Ralph A. Dungan Rex Warner Robert E. Slaughter Robert F. Goheen |
| 1969 |
Henry Lewis John Anthony Brown Julia J. Henderson Robert L. D. Davidson W. Harmon Wilson |
| 1970 |
Clifford L. Lord Franklin Frazee Moore '27 Gustav O. Lienhard Herbert Stein Max Tishler Merle Curti Samuel DeWitt Proctor |
| 1971 |
Andrew W. Cordier |
| 1972 |
Charles E. Zoubek Edward Kennedy Ellington Fred M. Hechinger J. Henry Smith Joan Sutherland Richard Bonynge Terry Sanford |
| 1973 |
James K. Feibleman Lawrence T. Frymire Lynn A. Towsend Philip B. Hofman Phillipp Schmidt-Schlegel Shirley Ann Grau |
| 1974 | Alfred Kracher Bennetta B. Washington Bill Moyers Ethel J. Alpenfels William E. Stevenson |
| 1975 |
Brendan T. Byrne Frederick William Ness Friedrich Niederl Murray F. Buell Patricia A. Sheehan Rolland A. Ritter Yee Chiang |
| 1976 | James Kerney Jr. Paul R. Haas '34 Rise Stevens Robert W. Kleinert Thomas C. Cochran |
| 1977 |
Bruce McClellan Clair F. Bee Sr. George H. Gallup Jr. H. Russell Morrison Jr. Morton Botel Ruth H. Mancuso |
| 1978 | Nancy Hanks Roger Serssions Sidney E. Mead Stanley Van Ness Thomas Samuel Kuhn William Turnbull |
| 1979 |
Ernest L. Boyer Fred G. Burke Lawrence Arthur Cremin Raymond L. Steen Richard R. Shinn '38 The Rev. Victor R. Yanitelli S.J |
| 1980 |
Amitai W. Etzioni Edward Coffin Pomeroy Helen Stevenson Meyner Robert A. Beck |
| 1981 |
Donald L. Fruehling Joseph R. Fink '61 Richard F. Phelps '63, '64 Robert Wiley Miller Sol M. Linowitz |
| 1982 |
Bill Bradley Frank J. Hoenemeyer Lawrence O. Ealy Maurice B. Sendak |
| 1983 | Audrey Ronning Topping Henry J. Heimlich M.D. Seymour Topping The Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh Thomas E. Robinson |
| 1984 |
J. Richardson Dilworth William E. Simon |
| 1985 | Chuck Stone Edward L. Hennessy Jr. J. Peter Grace John Brademas Max DePree William Olsten |
| 1986 | Claiborne Pell Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Mary Higgins Clark Norman S. Davis 1908 Ronald W. Bush '65 |
| 1987 |
Gregory R. Anrig Harry Thomas Gamble '52 Herbert A. Tonne J. W. Marriott Jr. Sidney Pestka |
| 1988 | Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Frank E. Taplin George Frost Kennan Millicent Fenwick |
| 1989 | David S. Broder Freeman John Dyson James Edward Cheek Paul J. Hanna William M. Polishook William Mastrosimone '74 |
| 1990 | F. Murray Abraham General Colin Luther Powell James J. Florio Paul Hardin Vincent E. Hoyer |
| 1991 | Edward J. Bambach Helen F. Boehm |
| 1992 |
Frank Lautenberg Patricia K. Cross Thomas A. Malloy |
| 1993 | Mariette Hartley Boyriven |
| 1994 | Donald Bixby Frank N. Elliott Martin Katz |
| 1995 | Anne Brossman Sweigart '34 Bernard V. Vonderschmitt '81 Christine Todd Whitman |
| 1996 | Alice Parker David L. Warren Susan Polis Schutz '66 Wolfgang Sawallisch |
| 1997 | Frances Oman Clark Michael R. Bloomberg Robert G. Torricelli Sylvia McNair The Rev. S. Howard Woodson Jr. |
| 1998 | John Bertalot Richard Bilotti Zdenek Macal |
| 1999 | Fred Rogers John Corigliano Ronald Berman Rush Holt |
| 2000 | Arnold Levine Julius Koppelman Louise Goss William Sloane Coffin |
| 2001 | Corella A. Bonner James H. Litton Joan H. Lippincott Jon S. Corzine Martin E. Marty |
| 2002 | George Sharney James E. McGreevey Maurice Perilli Shirley Tilghman |
| 2003 | Eric F. Wieschaus Graeme Phelps Schulke Marion Buckelew Cullen Robert Page |
| 2004 | Benita Valente Douglas H. Palmer Mark S. Schweiker '83 Peter Gomes |
| 2005 |
Jennifer Larmore |
| 2006 |
Joe Torre |
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2007
2008 |
James Byer The Honorable Deborah T. Poritz |
