~ HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS ~

 

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1952
Edith Hunt Folsom - Doctor of Humane Letters

Arthur A. Hauck - Doctor of Humane Letters

Harmon G. Allen - Doctor of Humane Letters

1953
Marian E. Martin - Doctor of Laws

Milton H. Philbrook - Doctor of Letters

Dawn N. Wallace - Doctor of Humane Letters

Elmer L. Ward - Doctor of Humane Letters

1954
Eliza C. Hannegan - Doctor of Humane Letters

Ronald P. Bridges - Doctor of Letters

1955
Alan S. Wilson - Doctor of Laws

W. Howard Niblock - Doctor of Humane Letters

Neil V. Sullivan - Doctor of Humane Letters

1956
John T. Holden - Doctor of Laws

Jean Gannett Williams - Doctor of Humane Letters

Carleton L. Wiggin - Doctor of Humane Letters

1957
Dwayne Orton - Doctor of Civil Law

Nellie French Stevens - Doctor of Humane Letters

Rabbi David Berent - Doctor of Humanities

Alfred T. Hill - Doctor of Humanities

1958
John Sherman Cooper - Doctor of Civil Law

Cecil J. Siddall - Doctor of Laws

Florence Nightingale Graham - Doctor of Humane Letters

Peter A. Anderson - Doctor of Humane Letters

John Z. Martin - Doctor of Humanities

1959
Percy LeBaron Spencer - Doctor of Science in Electronics

Lucile Leonard LeSourd - Doctor of Humane Letters

Charles Franklin Phillips - Doctor of Letters

Ernest G. Osborne - Doctor of Humanities

Gene Tunney - Doctor of Humane Letters

Bill Cunningham - Doctor of Humanities

1960
The Right Reverend Eugene C. Hatcher - Doctor of Canon and Civil Laws

Abraham M. Sonnabend - Doctor of Laws

Miriam MacMillan - Doctor of Humane Letters

Lawrence L. Page - Doctor of Humanities

1961
Esther Christine Goddard - Doctor of Science

John Allen Carter - Doctor of Humane Letters

Harold Danforth Ross, M. D. - Doctor of Humane Letters

Royce S. Pitkin - Doctor of Humanities

George H. Ellis - Doctor of Laws

1962
Edmund S. Muskie - Doctor of Laws

*Ruth Carter Fobes - Doctor of Humane Letters

Neal Dow Bousfield - Doctor of Humanities

Joseph B. Grossman - Doctor of Laws

Raymond H. Fogler - Doctor of Commercial Science

1963
Morris L. Ernst - Doctor of Jurisprudence

Robert E. L. Strider - Doctor of Humanities

The Right Reverend Robert J. White - Doctor of Canon and Civil Laws

Andrew Wyeth - Doctor of Fine Arts

1964
Ruth MacDuffie Mackaye - Doctor of Humane Letters

James Payson Dixon - Doctor of Laws

Edward R. Nelson - Doctor of Divinity

Paul Sample - Doctor of Fine Arts

1965
Bel Kaufman - Doctor of Letters

Luther Isaac Bonney - Doctor of Humane Letters

John Rogers Newel - Doctor of Laws

Prescott Browning Wintersteen - Doctor of Divinity

Wilbert Snow - Doctor of Fine Arts

Linwood Lincoln Brown - Doctor of Science

1966
John C. Long - Doctor of Letters

Elizabeth Enright - Doctor of Humane Letters

Malcolm S. Forbes - Doctor of Humane Letters

Ellis O. Briggs - Doctor of Laws

Rudolph M. Rosenthal - Doctor of Cannon and Civil Laws

Arthur Bennett Lipkin - Doctor of Music

1967
Daniel Viklund - Doctor of Letters

Clement David Thibodeau - Doctor of Humane Letters

Eric G. Woolgar - Doctor of Laws

Robert L. Marquardt - Doctor of Science

Ralph Ames Levitt - Doctor of Public Administration

1968
Laman H. Bruner, Jr. - Doctor of Canon and Civil Laws

Robert Laurent - Doctor of Fine Arts

Harold J. Shaw - Doctor of Humane Letters

Abram T. Collier - Doctor of Laws

Marion K. Moulton - Doctor of Science

1969
Frederick Barton Wolf - Doctor of Canon and Civil Laws

Frank Blair - Doctor of Humanities

Margaret Chase Smith - Doctor of Laws

Roger Crowell Gay - Doctor of Science in Education

1970
Richard James Bradley - Doctor of Science in Education

Clarence H. Thompson - Doctor of Science in Education

Clifford Holdsworth - Doctor of Laws

Roger Howell, Jr. - Doctor of Laws

1971
Bessie H. Ricker - Master of Education

Agnes George deMille - Doctor of Fine Arts

Lillian G. McConkey - Doctor of Humane Letters

Saul Shalit - Doctor of Laws

Robert Byron Williamson - Doctor of Laws

Peter Lee Gerety - Doctor of Civil Law

1972
William Harper Welch - Doctor of Humanities

Kenneth Gilmore Ryder - Doctor of Humane Letters

Edward Rowe Snow - Doctor of Humane Letters -

Dana Merserve Cotton - Doctor of Science in Education

Dan H. Fenn, Jr. - Doctor of Laws

John M. Fisher - Doctor of Laws

George Alexander Lord - Doctor of Laws

Chase Nebeker Peterson - Doctor of Laws

1973
Ruth Emery - Doctor of Humane Letters

Katherine Wing Hildreth - Doctor of Humane Letters

Baird Woodruff Whitlock - Doctor of Literature

*Doris Cummings Reando - Doctor of Education

Gardner A. Caverly - Doctor of Laws

R. Buckminster Fuller - Doctor of Laws

John Foster Meck - Doctor of Laws

1974
Adelle Davis - Doctor of Humane Letters

Albert L. Prosser - Doctor of Humane Letters

Daniel Stephen Maloney - Doctor of Science in Education

Edward Thaxter Gignoux - Doctor of Laws

William Putnam Ripley - Doctor of Laws

James H. Titcomb - Doctor of Laws

1975
Gladys Hasty Carroll - Doctor of Humane Letters

Peggy Bacon - Doctor of Fine Arts

Paul Vermel - Doctor of Fine Arts

John Stephen Bailey - Doctor of Education

William S. Cohen - Doctor of Laws

1976
*Thelma Peabody Tibbetts - Doctor of Humane Letters

Rabbi Harry Zvi Sky - Doctor of Divinity

B. F. Skinner - Doctor of Science

1977
Wayne A. Wormwood - Doctor of Humane Letters

Hugh Chapman Crouch - Doctor of Divinity

Russell Wing Brace - Doctor of Laws

1978
Mary Genn Worthley - Doctor of Humane Letters

C. Raymond Gilmore - Doctor of Science

Eleanor Houston Smith - Doctor of Humane Letters

Vincent L. McKusick - Doctor of Laws

Geoffrey Godsell - Doctor of Letters

1979
William F. Lawrence - Doctor of Humane Letters

John Colby Myer - Doctor of Divinity

Phyllis Thaxter - Doctor of Fine Arts

1980
May Sarton - Doctor of Humane Letters

Gordon S. Johnston - Doctor of Science

Carl E. Richards - Doctor of Science

Mildred Thomas - Doctor of Science in Education

Lawrence L. Pelletier - Doctor of Humanities

1981
Joseph B. Dorsey - Doctor of Humane Letters

Jack S. Ketchum - Doctor of Commercial Science

David F. Emery - Doctor of Laws

1982
*Charles A. Marshall - Doctor of Science in Education

*George H. McEvoy - Doctor of Commercial Science

Lech Walesa (in absentia) - Doctor of Laws

1983
Phyllis Genuth Givertz - Doctor of Public Administration

H. Allen Mapes - Doctor of Commercial Science

G. Stanley Berge - Doctor of Commercial Science

Marshall Dodge (posthumously) - Doctor of Humane Letters

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