Past Rutgers University Honorary Degree Recipients
This list of honorary degree recipients is sortable by last name, year conferred, and degree type. Click on the title of the column to sort the list by that particular content.
We have added the honorary degree citations for some of our recipients. Click on the Citation images, where shown, to read them.
| Last name | First name |
Year |
Degree | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seabrook | Charles Franklin | 1955 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Young | Donald Ramsey | 1955 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Benson | Ezra Taft | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Friend, Jr. | Albert Mathias | 1955 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Fulbright | James William | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kenyon | Lee John | 1955 | Master of Arts | |
| Burns | Arthur Frank | 1955 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Newmark | Nathan Mortimore | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Burton | Glenn Willard | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Komp | William H.W. | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Sachar | Libby Bernstein | 1955 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Snedeker | Chester Wesley | 1955 | Master of Arts | |
| Case | Clifford Phillip | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Davis | Jess Harrison | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Moore | Marianne Craig | 1955 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Sebrell, Jr. | William Henry | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Mumford | Lawrence Quincy | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hoover, Jr. | Herbert | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Shockley | William B. | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Thomson | Virgil | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hughes | Joseph Egan | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| McDonough | Roger Henry | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Quimby | Edith Hinkley | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Vandervilt | Arthur | 1956 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Hardt | Robert Andrew | 1956 | Doctor of Philosophy | |
| Schaaf | Royal Albert | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Felmly | Lloyd McPherson | 1956 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Cameron | Donald Forrester | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Boyd | Julian Parks | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Lee | Percy Maxim | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Park | Rosemary | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Johnson | Thomas Herbert | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hoffman | Samuel David | 1957 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Morse | David Abner | 1957 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Goheen | Robert Francis | 1957 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Peyre | Henri Maurice | 1957 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Kertes | Ferdinand | 1957 | Doctor of Science | |
| Nelson | Oswald George | 1957 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Cole | William Harder | 1957 | Doctor of Science | |
| Threlkeld | Curtis Hugh | 1957 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Anderson | Marian | 1957 | Doctor of Music | |
| Reston | James Barrett | 1957 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Martin | William Hope | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Weintraub | Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Moxon | Rosamond Sawyer | 1958 | Master of Arts | |
| Hottel | Althea Kratz | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Blackmur | Richard Palmer | 1958 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Gronquist | Carl Harry | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Melcher | Frederic Gershom | 1958 | Doctor of Letters | |
| MacCarter | Beatrice Bouchier | 1958 | Master of Arts |