Honorary Degrees Awarded
From Commencement 1951 to present
2011: Commencement, May 22Honorable Maryanne Trump Barry - Doctor of Laws Rear Admiral Brian P. Monahan - Doctors of Science |
2010: Commencement, May 23Reverend Daniel J. Harrington, S.J. - Doctor of Humane Letters Katherine Lapp - Doctor of Laws Dr. Mayra Luz Perez Diaz - Doctors of Laws Emily Kerman Rafferty - Doctor of Laws |
2009: Commencement, May 17Monsignor Ralph W. Beiting - Doctor of Laws Dr. Mathy Mezey - Doctor of Science Dr. Peter J. Pronovost - Doctor of Science Bryan A. Stevenson - Doctor of Laws |
2008: Commencement, May 18David Amram - Doctor of Humane Letters Reverend John Halligan, S.J. - Doctor of Laws Sister M. Julianna Poole, S.S.N.D. - Doctor of Laws Francis T. Vincent, Jr. - Doctor of Laws |
2007: Commencement, May 20Edward P. Hardiman - Doctor of Laws Meghan Lowney - Doctor of Laws James P. Roach - Doctor of Laws Very Reverend Thomas J. Regan, S.J. - Doctor of Laws (Speaker) |
2006: Commencement, May 21Hope E. Carter - Doctor of Laws Michael Joseph Daly - Doctor of Laws Archbishop Celestino Migliore - Doctor of Laws British August Robinson - Doctor of Laws (Speaker) |
2005: Commencement, May 22Maryann T. Furlong - Doctor of Laws Arthur C. Laske - Doctor of Laws Monsignor John C. Sanders - Doctor of Laws Florence Schorske Wald - Doctor of Laws |
2004: Commencement, May 23Judge Guido Calabresi - Doctor of Laws James F. Hanrahan - Doctor of Laws Reverend Mother Dolores Hart, O.S.B. - Doctor of Laws Cokie Roberts - Doctor of Laws (Speaker) |
2003: Commencement, May 18Michael W. Donnelly - Doctor of Laws Mary Rose McGready, D.C. - Doctor of Laws Grayce McVeigh Sills - Doctor of Science Strobe Talbott - Doctor of Laws (Speaker) |
2002: Commencement, May 19George W. Bur, S.J. - Doctor of Laws Loretta Brennan Glucksman - Doctor of Laws John P. Sachs - Doctor of Science |
2001: Commencement, May 20Ann Elizabeth Credidio, B.V.M. - Doctor of Laws Arthur Levitt, Jr. - Doctor of Laws (Speaker) Daniel P. Tully - Doctor of Laws |
2000: Commencement, May 21Richard J. Curry, S.J. - Doctor of Humane Letters (Speaker) Colin G. Campbell - Doctor of Laws Samuel E. Carter, S.J. - Doctor of Laws Dennis D. Dammerman - Doctor of Laws |
1999: Commencement, May 23Mark D. Gearan - Doctor of Laws (Speaker) James L. Connor, S.J. - Doctor of Humane Letters Gustav Meier - Doctor of Laws Leslie C. Quick, Jr. - Doctor of Laws |
1998: Commencement, May 17Carole Simpson - Doctor of Humane Letters (Speaker) David E.A. Carson - Doctor of Laws Thomas F. Banchoff - Doctor of Science |
1997: Commencement, May 18Thomas John Brokaw - Doctor of Laws (Speaker) Lawrence E. Doby - Doctor of Laws George Burton Harvey - Doctor of Laws Elizabeth Marie Pfriem - Doctor of Laws |
1996: Commencement, May 19Harris Wofford - Doctor of Laws (Speaker) Milton J. Hinton - Doctor of Humane Letters George W. Hunt, S.J. - Doctor of Humane Letters Dorothy Bannow Larson - Doctor of Laws |
1995: Commencement, May 21Jean Kennedy Smith - Doctor of Laws (Speaker) Jacquelyn C. Durrell - Doctor of Laws Marian L. Heard - Doctor of Laws Alfred C. Kammer, S.J. - Doctor of Laws |
1994: Commencement, May 22E. Gerald Corrigan - Doctor of Laws (Speaker) John J. Higgins, S.J. - Doctor of Laws Robert Conover Macauley - Doctor of Laws Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland, O.S.B. -Doctor of Laws |
1993: Commencement, May 23Ann Woodruff Compton - Doctor of Laws (Speaker) Reverend J. Bryan Hehir - Doctor of Humane Letters James Dewey Watson - Doctor of Science |
1992: Commencement, May 17John A. Barone - Doctor of Science Thomas Edmund Aquinas Carew - Doctor of Laws Harold W. McGraw, Jr. - Doctor of Humane Letters Carmen F. Donnarumma - Speaker |
1991: Commencement, May 19William M. Joel - Doctor of Humane Letters (Speaker) Judge Ellen Bree Burns - Doctor of Laws Reverend Martin McCarthy, S.J. - Doctor of Science Paul Volcker - Doctor of Laws |
1990: Commencement, May 20John J. Phelan - Doctor of Laws (Speaker) Fortune Pope - Doctor of Laws Willie H. Ruff - Doctor of Humane Letters |
1989: Commencement, May 21Leonard Bernstein - Doctor of Laws (Speaker) Clara McBride Hale - Doctor of Laws L. William Miles - Doctor of Laws |
1988: Commencement, May 22Reverend Timothy Healy, S.J. - Doctor of Humane Letters (Speaker) Geraldine W. Johnson - Doctor of Laws Ernest M. Lorch - Doctor of Laws George F. Taylor - Doctor of Laws |
1987: Commencement, May 18Reverend Lawrence A. Burke, S.J. - Doctor of Laws (Speaker) Alphonsus J. Donahue - Doctor of Laws Lucille Lortel - Doctor of Humane Letters Reverend David W. Tracy - Doctor of Humane Letters |
1986: Commencement, May 18Dr. Robert Coles - Doctor of Humane Letters Dith Pran - Doctor of Humane Letters (Speaker) Reverend William Wallace, O.P. - Doctor of Humane Letters |
1985: Commencement, May 19Arvin Brown - Doctor of Humane Letters Reverend George W. MacRae, S.J. - Doctor of Humane Letters Governor William O'Neill - Doctor of Laws (Speaker) Sister Mary Consolata O'Connor, R.S.M. - Doctor of Humane Letters |
1984: Commencement, May 20Robert M. Hayes - Doctor of Laws Ted Koppel - Doctor of Humane Letters (Speaker) Martha Elizabeth Rogers - Doctor of Science Lawrence Arthur Wien - Doctor of Laws |
1983: Commencement, May 22Margaret Ann Farley - Doctor of Humane Letters Francis Joseph McNamara, Jr. - Doctor of Laws Elie Wiesel - Doctor of Humane Letters (Speaker) |
1982: Commencement, May 23William Joseph Dorfer, Jr. - Doctor of Laws Reverend Thomas R. Fitzgerald, S.J. - Doctor of Humane Letters (Speaker) Jason Nelson Robards - Doctor of Humane Letters Andrew Clark Sigler - Doctor of Laws |
1981: Commencement, May 24Reverend Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S.J. - Doctor of Humane Letters Serena S. Merck - Doctor of Laws Reverend Bruce Ritter, O.F.M. - Doctor of Laws Alexander M. Haig, Jr. - Doctor of Laws (Speaker) |
1980: Commencement, May 25William L. Hawkins - Doctor of Humane Letters David W.P. Jewitt - Doctor of Laws Reverend George Stirling Mahan, S.J. -Doctor of Humane Letters Reverend Joseph A. O'Hare, S.J. - Doctor of Humane Letters (Speaker) |
1979: Commencement, May 27Ella Grasso - Doctor of Public Service Reverend Bernard Joseph Francis Lonergan, S.J. -Doctor of Humane Letters George William Miller - Doctor of Public Administration (Speaker) |
1978: Commencement, May 28Reverend James H. Coughlin, S.J. - Doctor of Humane Letters Evelyn Kennedy - Doctor of Public Service Stewart B. McKinney - Doctor of Public Service (Speaker) Arthur Miller - Doctor of Humane Letters |
1977: Commencement, May 22Vincent Albert Cianci, Jr. - Doctor of Public Service (Speaker) William Homer Timbers - Doctor of Civil Law |
1976: Commencement, May 23Samuel Waller Hawley - Doctor of Public Service Robert Paul Ramsey - Doctor of Humane Letters Dean Rusk - Doctor of Civil Law (Speaker) |
1975: Commencement, May 25Reverend William Charles McInnes, S.J. - Doctor of Humane Letters Richard Peter McKeon - Doctor of Humane Letters Reverend Theodore Martin Hesburgh - Doctor of Public Service John Joseph Sirica - Doctor of Civil Law (Speaker) |
1974: Commencement, May 26James Warren Birkenstock - Doctor of Laws Samuel Dash - Doctor of Civil Law (Speaker) William Styron - Doctor of Humane Letters John Joseph Sullivan - Doctor of Public Service |
1973: Commencement, June 3Sidney P. Marland, Jr. - Doctor of Humane Letters (Speaker) Rene Jules Dubos - Doctor of Science |
1972: Commencement, May 28Joseph Hoffer Blatchford - Doctor of Laws (Speaker) Lawrence Warren Pierce - Doctor of Laws Max Tishler - Doctor of Science |
1971: Commencement, May 30John Whittaker Christensen - Doctor of Science Alvin Christian Eurich - Doctor of Humane Letters Harrison Edward Farnsworth - Doctor of Science Alexander Kipnis - Doctor of Fine Arts Morris King Udall - Doctor of Laws (Speaker) |
1970: Commencement, June 17Kenneth Burke - Doctor of Humane Letters Most Reverend Harold Robert Perry, S.V.D. - Doctor of Laws Edmund Griffith Williamson - Doctor of Arts (Speaker) Korczak Ziolkowski - Doctor of Arts |
1969: Commencement, June 8Dana Lyda Farnsworth - Doctor of Science J. Gerald Phelan - Doctor of Arts Theodore Chaikin Sorensen - Doctor of Laws (Speaker) Robert Penn Warren - Doctor of Humane Letters Amos Wiven Wilder - Doctor of Theology |
1968: Commencement, June 9Edward Bennett Williams - Doctor of Laws (Speaker) Homer Daniels Babbidge, Jr. - Doctor of Humane Letters Arsene Croteau - Doctor of Humane Letters Peter Carl Goldmark - Doctor of Science |
1967: Commencement, June 14Howard Thomas Owens - Doctor of Laws Right Reverend Monsignor John Joseph Toomey - Doctor of Laws Donald Henry McGannon - Doctor of Humane Letters William Sumner Simpson - Doctor of Public Service Edward John Steichen - Doctor of Fine Arts Roger Tory Peterson - Doctor of Science |
1966: Commencement, June 15John Dempsey - Doctor of Laws James Vincent Joy - Doctor of Laws John Courtney Murray - Doctor of Laws (Speaker) Marion Anderson - Doctor of Humane Letters Igor Ivan Sikorsky - Doctor of Science |
1965: Commencement, June 14William Conley - Doctor of Laws Richard Cardinal Cushing - Doctor of Laws (Speaker) Thomas Dodd - Doctor of Laws Henry W. Littlefield - Doctor of Laws |
1964: Commencement, June 8Paul Horgan - Doctor of Humane Letters (Speaker) |
1963: Commencement, June 10Right Reverend Monsignor John H. Anderson, D.D., P.A. - Doctor of Laws William Joseph Sanders - Doctor of Laws (Speaker) Sir Alexander Bustamante, K. B. - Doctor of Laws |
1962: Commencement, June 11Most Reverend Walter William Curtis, S.T.D. - Doctor of Laws (Speaker) |
1961: Commencement, June 12Herman William Steinkraus - Doctor of Laws Right Reverend Monsignor Cornelius P. Tuelings - Doctor of Humane Letters Francis James Braceland - Doctor of Science (Speaker) |
1960: Commencement, June 7Henry Michael Hogan - Doctor of Laws Thomas Dresser White - Doctor of Laws (Speaker) Reverend John J. Collins, S.J. - Doctor of Humane Letters |
1959: Commencement, June 9Abraham Ribicoff - Doctor of Laws Most Reverend Bernard J. Flanagan, D.D. - Doctor of Laws(Speaker) Joseph Sullivan - Doctor of Laws John Peter Hagan - Doctor of Science |
1954: Commencement, June 8Most Reverend Joseph Lawrence Shehan, D.D. - Doctor of Laws (Speaker) |
1953: Commencement, June 9Most Reverend John Francis Hackett, D.D. - Doctor of Laws Raymond Earl Baldwin - Doctor of Laws (Speaker) Margaret Veronica Kiely - Doctor of Laws |
1952: Commencement, June 10Most Reverend Monsignor Joseph Francis Donnelly - Doctor of Laws The Honorable Charles Malik - Doctor of Laws Reverend Edward Bernard Rooney, S.J. - Doctor of Laws (Speaker) Frank Daniel Whalen - Doctor of Laws James Milton O'Neil - Doctor of Humane Letters |
1951: Commencement, June 12Most Reverend Henry J. O'Brien, D.D. - Doctor of Laws Most Reverend William R. Arnold, D.D. - Doctor of Laws Most Reverend John J. McEleney, S.J., D.D. - Doctor of Laws The Honorable J. Howard McGrath - Doctor of Laws (Speaker) |