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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gronquist | Carl Harry | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Cuthbertson | David Paton | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Melcher | Frederic Gershom | 1958 | Doctor of Letters | |
| MacCarter | Beatrice Bouchier | 1958 | Master of Arts | |
| Dean | Arthur Hobson | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Fiske | Jessie Gladys | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Mahan | Edna | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Brennan, Jr. | William Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mitchell | James Paul | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smith | Howard Anthony | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bergethon | Kaare Roald | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jones | Lewis Webster | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Fuchs | Morris | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Cleary | Edward John | 1959 | Doctor of Science | |
| Black | Eugene Robert | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Houle | Cyril Orvin | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Everett | Thomas Henry | 1959 | Master of Science | |
| Fair | Ethel Marion | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Graham | Martha | 1959 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Cullman | Howard Stix | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Finletter | Thomas Knight | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Diekhoff | John Siemon | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Francis | John Joseph | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Herrmann | Lewis Mordecai | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ormandy | Eugene | 1960 | Doctor of Music | |
| Lett | Harold Alfred | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Williams, Jr. | Harrison Arlington | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bunting | Mary Ingraham | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kaiser | John Boynton | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Hall | Frederick Wilson | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Powers | William | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| MacKay | Kenneth Campbell | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Wescott | Lloyd Bruce | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Dillon | Clarence Douglas | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sang | Philip David | 1961 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Read | Hilton Shreve | 1961 | Doctor of Science | |
| Schettino | C. Thomas | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gidney | Ray Millard | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stetin | Sol | 1961 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Mazur | Paul Myer | 1961 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Piel | Gerard | 1961 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Kriendler | Irving Robert | 1961 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Rukeyser | Muriel | 1961 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Heidelberger | Michael | 1961 | Doctor of Science | |
| White | Ruth Patricia | 1962 | Master of Fine Arts | |
| Clapp | Margaret | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dougherty | John Joseph | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stevenson | Adlai Ewing | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Weeks | Edward A. | 1962 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Kessler | Henry Howard | 1962 | Doctor of Humane Letters |