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Past Recipients of the Honorary Degree

  • 2024

    TBD

  • 2023

    None

  • 2022

    Andrew Purnell

  • 2021

    None

  • 2020

    None

  • 2019

    Wonsook Kim

  • 2018

    Craig Bouchard

  • 2017

    Jane Lynch

  • 2016

    Julie Dobski

  • 2015

    John W. Maitland
    Joanne Maitland

  • 2014

    David Brown

  • 2013

    Sean Hayes
    Michael J. Adams

  • 2012

    None

  • 2011

    Terry Kinney
    Jeff Perry

  • 2010

    None

  • 2009

    Tom Lamont

  • 2008

    John Koch

  • 2007

    David McCullough

  • 2006

    Gregory Kunde

  • 2005

    None

  • 2004

    None

  • 2003

    Michael McCuskey

  • 2002

    R. David Edmunds

  • 2001

    C. R. O'Dell

  • 2000

    Judith Ivey

  • 1999

    Barbara Scholley

  • 1998

    Leon Lederman

  • 1997

    William Warfield

  • 1996

    None

  • 1995

    Edward Madigan
    George Means

  • 1994

    George A. Pruitt

  • 1993

    Hoon Mok Chung
    Anthony E. Cascino, Sr.

  • 1992

    John Hope Franklin

  • 1991

    None

  • 1990

    Arnold O. Beckman

  • 1989

    Terrel H. Bell

  • 1988

    Richard D. Alexander
    Bassam Z. Shakhashiri

  • 1987

    Kenneth A. Shaw

  • 1986

    Edward H. Beuhrig
    Athorn Chonhenchob

  • 1985

    Sen. Paul Simon
    M. M. Chambers

  • 1984

    Robert C. Underwood

  • 1983

    James L. Fisher
    Allan William Ostar

  • 1982

    Gene Budig
    Edward B. Rust

  • 1981

    Helen M. Cavanagh
    Donald M. Prince

  • 1980

    Donald F. McHenry

  • 1979

    Jesse L. Jackson
    Walker D. Wyman

  • 1978

    Richard Hunt
    Anna L. Keaton

  • 1977

    Carol Kimmel
    Gerald W. Smith

  • 1976

    Thomas F. Barton
    John E. Corbally, Jr.
    Alice Abel
    John Kuhfuss

  • 1975

    Betty J. Soldwedel

  • 1974

    Percy Julian
    Arther Larsen

  • 1973

    Clifford M. Hardin
    Hettie Bunker Smith
    Bayard Rustin

  • 1972

    Robert Guy Buzzard

  • 1971

    Otto Kerner
    R. Sargent Shriver

  • 1970

    Richard Browne
    Patricia Cross

  • 1969

    None

  • 1968

    Robert G. Bone

  • 1967

    None