Honorary Degrees Awarded
Commencement 1951-Present
2007: Commencement, May 20
Edward 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 21
Hope 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 22
Maryann 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 23
Judge 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 18
Michael 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 19
George W. Bur, S.J. - Doctor of Laws
Loretta Brennan Glucksman - Doctor of Laws
Douglas C. Perlitz - Doctor of Laws (Speaker)
John P. Sachs - Doctor of Science
2001: Commencement, May 20
Ann Elizabeth Credidio, B.V.M. - Doctor of Laws
Arthur Levitt, Jr. - Doctor of Laws (Speaker)
Daniel P. Tully - Doctor of Laws
2000: Commencement, May 21
Richard 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 23
Mark 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 17
Carole Simpson -
Doctor of Humane Letters (Speaker)
David E.A. Carson - Doctor of Laws
Thomas F. Banchoff - Doctor of Science
1997: Commencement, May 18
Thomas 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 19
Harris 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 21
Jean 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 22
E. 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 23
Ann Woodruff Compton - Doctor of Laws (Speaker)
Reverend J. Bryan Hehir - Doctor of Humane Letters
James Dewey Watson - Doctor of Science
1992: Commencement, May 17
John 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 19
William 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 20
John J. Phelan - Doctor of Laws (Speaker)
Fortune Pope - Doctor of Laws
Willie H. Ruff - Doctor of Humane Letters
1989: Commencement, May 21
Leonard Bernstein - Doctor of Laws (Speaker)
Clara McBride Hale - Doctor of Laws
L. William Miles - Doctor of Laws
1988: Commencement, May 22
Reverend 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 18
Reverend 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 18
Dr. 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 19
Arvin 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 20
Robert 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 22
Margaret Ann Farley - Doctor of Humane Letters
Francis Joseph McNamara, Jr. - Doctor of Laws
Elie Wiesel - Doctor of Humane Letters (Speaker)
1982: Commencement, May 23
William 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 24
Reverend 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 25
William 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 27
Ella 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 28
Reverend 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 22
Vincent Albert Cianci, Jr. -
Doctor of Public Service (Speaker)
William Homer Timbers - Doctor of Civil Law
1976: Commencement, May 23
Samuel Waller Hawley - Doctor of Public Service
Robert Paul Ramsey - Doctor of Humane Letters
Dean Rusk - Doctor of Civil Law (Speaker)
1975: Commencement, May 25
Reverend 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 26
James 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 3
Sidney P. Marland, Jr. -
Doctor of Humane Letters (Speaker)
Rene Jules Dubos - Doctor of Science
1972: Commencement, May 28
Joseph Hoffer Blatchford - Doctor of Laws (Speaker)
Lawrence Warren Pierce - Doctor of Laws
Max Tishler - Doctor of Science
1971: Commencement, May 30
John 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 17
Kenneth 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 8
Dana 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 9
Edward 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 14
Howard 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 15
John 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 14
William 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 8
Paul Horgan - Doctor of Humane Letters (Speaker)
1963: Commencement, June 10
Right 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 11
Most Reverend Walter William Curtis, S.T.D. -
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)
1961: Commencement, June 12
Herman 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 7
Henry 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 9
Abraham 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 8
Most Reverend Joseph Lawrence Shehan, D.D. -
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)
1953: Commencement, June 9
Most 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 10
Most 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 12
Most 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)
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