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

* denotes Nasson Graduate