Honorary Degree Recipients

2024

• Jones, Angela Montag ‘01, LHD (Commencement)
• Morton, D. Holmes, LHD (Commencement)

2023

• Baker, Anne C., LHD (Commencement)
• Bock, Lawrence R., LHD (Commencement)
• Wise, Charles W., LHD (Commencement)
• Murray, M. Andrew, LHD (Commencement)

2022

• Shah, Parisha P. '01, LHD (Commencement)

2021

• Nathan, Howard M. '75, LHD (Commencement)

2020

• Janz, Rainer, LHD (Event)

2019

• Kaylor, Harriet Beahm, LHD (Commencement)
• Trim, Michael A. '76, LHD (Commencement)

2018

• Taylor, Maurice C. ’72, LHD (Commencement)

2017

• Lord, Kristin M., LHD (Commencement)
• Smith Wetzel, Miriam '52, LHD (Commencement)

2016

• Glaeser, Carl D. '77, LHD (Commencement)
• Glaeser, Nancy, N. '76, LHD (Commencement)
• Sparks, Jack L. (Event)
• Sparks, Carolyn A. (Event)
• Switzer, Jo Young, LHD (Lecture)

2015

• Figura, Raymond, LHD (Commencement)
• Lakso, James J., LHD (Commencement)
• Schwemmlein, Christoph '84, LHD (Commencement)

2014

• Kuriyan, John '81, LHD (Commencement)

2013

• Kepple, Thomas R., LHD (Commencement)
• Lifton, Robert J., LHD (Lecture)

2012

• Gibbel, Henry H. '57, LHD
• Madara, James L. '71, LHD
• Mclay, James K., LHD
• Statton, Timothy D. '72, LHD

2011

• Baugher, Beulah K., LHD
• Blechschmidt, George F. '54, LHD
• Goodman, David K. Jr. '74, LHD (Commencement)
• Wolf, Maryanne, LHD (Commencement)

2010

• Michel, Harriet R. '65, LHD (Commencement)
• Long, Theodore E., LHD
• Morgan, Stephen C., LHD
• Stone, Phillip C., LHD

2009

• Marzio, Peter C. '65, LHD (Commencement)
• von Liebig, Suzanne, LHD

2008

• Klag, Michael J., LHD
• Sill, Eileen G., LHD (Commencement)
• Johnston, John Bennett, LHD (Lecture Series - Oct. 15, 2008)

2007

•  Kinnell, Galway, LHD (Lecture Series - Sep. 20, 2007)
• Mitchell, Donald J., LHD (Commencement)
• Walker, Amb. Edward S. Jr., LHD (Commencement)
• Wertz, Ronald W., LHD (Commencement)

2006

• Horn, Philip, LHD (Commencement)
• Halbritter, Barry J., LHD (Commencement)

2005

• King, Yolanda, LHD (Commencement)
• Cherry, Elizabeth Ellis, LHD (Commencement)
• Kunert, Günter, LHD (Germany - May 23, 2005)

2004

• Kempowski, Walter, LHD (Germany Apr. 2004)
• Churchill, John (Speaker)
• Lewis, John, LHD (Will Judy Lecture - Oct. 3, 2004)

2003

• Durnbaugh, Donald F., LHD (Commencement)
• Ikenberry, Stanley O., LHD (Commencement)
• Nair, N. Unnikrishnan, LHD (Commencement)
• Robinson, Mary, LHD (Will Judy Lecture - Sep. 23, 2003)
• Liu, Dimon, LHD (Speaker Series - Oct. 22, 2003)

2002

• Dale, John A., LHD
• Lepoutre, Gerard F., LHD
• Stottlemyer, Quayton R., LHD

2001

• Davis, Bruce, LHD (Commencement)
• Doyle, Esther, LHD (Commencement)
• Heckler, Elma Stein, LHD (May Day Breakfast)
• Kaylor, Earl C. Jr., LHD (Commencement)
• Metz, Samuel F., LHD (Commencement)

2000

• Nordenfelt, Johan, LHD

1999

• Phillips, William D., DSc
• von Liebig, William J., DSc

1998

• Malloy, Edwin A., LHD
• Moyer, Donald D., LHD

1997

• Blanck, Ronald R. Lt. General, LHD
• Sunderland, Klare S., LLD

1996

• Winter, Paul, LHD
• Phornprapha, Chumpol, Ed.D.

1995

• Moore, Margaret A., LLD

1994

• Splete, Allen P., LHD

1993

• Davinic, Prvoslav, LHD
• Hayes, Samuel E. Jr., LLD

1992

• Potok, Chaim, LHD

1991

• Yevtushenko, Yevgeny, LHD

1990

• Hesselbein, Frances, LLD
• Ellis, David W., LHD

1989

• Baker, Elizabeth Evans, LHD (at Karen Sandler's Convocation/Inauguration as V.P. for Academic Affairs)
• Lin, Maya, LHD
• Ellis, Charles C., (no degree, citation only; see 1981)

1988

• Hatfield, Mark O., LHD

1987

• Boyer, Ernest (Dr.), LHD
• Brouwer, Arie R., DD

1986

• Meyers, Wayne M. (Dr.) '47, DSc

1985

• Jordan, Bryce, LLD
• Burkholder, W. Clay '33, LLD

1984

• Oller, Jack E. Litt. D. '23
• Zigler, M. Robert, LHD

1983

• Detwiler, Dale William, LLD
• Knox, Charles Robert, LLD
• Pearson, Paul Guy, LLD

1982

• Embree, Ainslie Thomas, LLD
• Rosenberger, Wellington Clemens, DD

1981

• Ellis, Charles Calver, LLD
• Good, Joseph Robert, LLD
• West, Jessamyn, D. Lit.

1980

• Eddy, Edward Danforth Jr., LHD
• Elits, Herman Frederick, LHD

1979

• Sarni, Vincent A., LLD

1978

• Henry, Curran Jewett, LLD
• Neff, Robert Wilbur, DD
• Myerson, Martin, LLD

1976

• Ellis, Elizabeth Wertz, LHD
• Groff, Warren Frederick, DD
• Helman, Alred Blair, LLD
• Rhoads, James Berton, LHD
• Swigart, John W., LLD

1975

• Brumbaugh, Harold B., LHD
• McPherson, Mary Patterson, LLD

1974

• Brumbaugh, G. Edwin, LHD
• Hassler, William W., LLD

1973

• Oswald, John Wieland, LHD

1972

• Cordier, Andrew Wellington, LHD
• Fegan, William Samuel, LLD
• Rosenberger, Lester Markley, LLD

1971

• Day, Raymond Richard, LLD
• Gray, Jesse Glenn, LLD
• Rossell, Glenora Edward, LLD

1970

• Miles, Leland W., LLD

1969

• Baker, Robert C., LLD
• Beachley, Donovan R., LLD
• Kennedy, Edwin L., LHD
• Larson, Roy E., LLD
• Rabinowitz, Aaron, LLD

1967

• Dean, Vera Micheles, LLD
• Rung, Albert Mattern, MA

1967 Founders Day

• Luke, David L. III, LLD

1966 Dedication of Brumbaugh Science Center

• Bronk, Detlev W., LLD
• Hahn, Erwin L., DSc
• Hamer, Walter J., DSc
• Hill, Julian W., LLD
• Myers, Jack E., DSc

1966

• Allen, Ivan Jr., LLD

1965

• Malott, Deane Waldo, LLD
• Rowe, Earl Nelson, DD
• Woodworth, Laurence Neal, LLD

1964

• Beeghly, Charles Milton, LLD
• Stauffer, John Nissley, LLD

1961

• Kline, Joseph Virtue, LLD
• Lloyd, Robert McAllister, LLD
• Whittaker, Charles Elwin, LLD

1960

• Brown, Kenneth Irving, LLD

1959

• Nyquist, Ewald Berger, LLD

1958 Founders Day (Apr. 17, 1958)

• Reinhart, Frank Walter, ScD

1958

• Long, W. Newton, DD
• MacCarrol, Joseph, DD

1957

• Boeschenstein, Harold, LLD
• Jordan, Harvey Bryant, LLD

1955

• Croyle, Robert Raymond, DD
• Ellis, John Dwight, DD
• Garner, Thomas Donald, DD
• Harshbarger, Luther Henry, DD
• Hopkins, Thomas James, DD

1952

• Steese, Charles M., LHD
• Wyland, Mary Jane, LLD

1951 Founders Day

• Berry, John, LLD
• Montgomery, John B., ScD
• Morse, Kenneth I., Litt. D.
• Smith, Harold T., DD

1949

• Brumbaugh, Norman J., ScD
• Robinson, Paul M., DD

1948 September Convocation

• Kulp, H. Stover, DD

1948

• Herring, Herbert James, LLD
• Hottel, Althea Kratz, LLD

1946

• Detwiler, Edgar M., DD
• Statler, Foster B., DD

1943

• Baker, John Calhoun, LLD
• Livengood, William Samuel Jr., LLD
• Schwalm, Vernon Franklin, LLD
• Tolley, William Pearson, LLD

1941

• Donham, Wallace Brett, LLD

1940

• Metzger, Irvin D., DSc
• Mohler, Henry K., DSc

1938

• Brougher, Mahlon J., DD
• Kephart, John William, LLD
• Murphy, Ross Dale, DD

1937

• Bailey, Thomas F., LLD
• Slep, Daniel N., LLD

1936

• Cabot, Philip, LLD

1935

• Swigart, William Joseph, DD
• Wagstaff, Blanche Shoemaker, MA
• Walk, George Everett, LLD

1934

• Broome, Edwin Cornelius, LLD
• Graham, Ben George, LLD
• Haas, Francis Buchman, LLD
• Waller, David Jewett, LLD

1932 Founders Day (Apr. 15, 1932)

• Rule, James Noble, Litt. D.

1931 Commencement

• Green, Francis Harvey, LLD
• Taylor, Joseph Deems, Litt. D.

1931 (Inauguration of Dr. C.C. Ellis - Oct. 23, 1920)

• Brumbaugh, I Harvey, LHD
• Graves, Frank Pierrepont, LLD

1930

• Fletcher, Henry P., LLD

1929

• Edmonds, Franklin Spencer, LLD
• Woodin, William Hartman, LLD

1928

• Fisher, John Stuchell, LLD
• Stites, Fletcher, LLD
• Wirt, George Herman, MS

1927

• Roberts, Owen Josephus, LLD

1926 (50th Anniversary Celebration - Apr. 17, 1926)

• Brumbaugh, Gaius Marcus, Litt. D.
• Daniels, Josephus, LLD
• Heinz, Howard, LLD
• Johnson, Albert Williams, LLD
• Schwab, Charles M., LLD
• von Moschzisker, Robert, LLD
• Wieand, Albert Cassel, DD

1925 Commencement

• Ainey, William D.B., LLD
• Barton, Bruce, Litt. D.
• Illick, Joseph S., MS
• White, Holman, LLD

1925 (M.G. Brumbaugh Inauguration - Jan. 29, 1925)

• Bowman, Paul Haynes, DD
• Collins, Emerson, LLD
• Ellis, Charles Calvert, DD
• Henderson, George, LLD
• Miller, Jacob J., LLD
• Penniman, Josiah Harmar, LLD
• Stackpole, Edward James, LLD

1924

• Darlington, Thomas, Litt. D.
• Emmert, Jesse Benedict, DD
• Grier, Alvin Ruckman, MA

1922

• Miller, Samuel Haas, LLD

1921

• Langdon, Chester J. (Honorary Alumnus)

1920

• Speer, Robert Elliot, Litt. D.

1919

• Cummings, J. Howell, LLD
• Kolb, Louis J., LLD
• Orlady, George Boal, LLD
• Sims, William S., LLD

1918

• Gibbel, John, LLD

1917

• Bogle, Sara Comly Norris, MA
• Moherman, Tully S., DD
• Shoemaker, Henry Wharton, Litt. D.

1911

• Baker, Frank Kline, DD
• Blough, Jacob M., DD
• Holsopple, Frank F., MA
• Johnson, Carmon C., MA
• Kurtz, Daniel Webster, DD

1905

• Haines, Amos H., DD
• Myers, Timothy Tobias, DD

1904

• Dell, James Geary, ME

1898

• Brumbaugh, Gaius Marcus, MS