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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reilly | Hilda Christine | 1966 | Doctor of Science | |
| Miller | William Christian | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Coffey | Katherine Frances | 1966 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Bixby | Frederick Lovell | 1966 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Weisenfeld | Allan | 1966 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Adams | Ruth Marie | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Alexander | Archibald Stevens | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Rogosin | Israel | 1966 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Nannes | Caspar | 1966 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Ellison | Ralph Waldo | 1966 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Kennan | George F. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Boocock | Philip Milledoler Brett | 1966 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Sills | Arthur J. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lewis | Willard Deming | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Matsumoto | Shigeharu | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ferguson, Jr. | Clarence Clyde | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gordon | Julia Weber | 1966 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Yanitelli | Victor Robert, S.J. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Humphrey | Hubert H. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| White | Katharine Elkus | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stewart | William Huffman | 1967 | Doctor of Science | |
| Mahoney | Sister Hildegarde Marie | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Nagel | Ernest | 1967 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Copland | Aaron | 1967 | Doctor of Music | |
| Caldwell | William Anthony | 1967 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Bowen | Catherine Drinker | 1967 | Doctor of Letters | |
| L'Hommedieu | Paige D. | 1967 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Gordon | Lincoln | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Fisk | James Brown | 1967 | Doctor of Science | |
| Doar | John | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Friedman | Milton | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Payne-Gaposchkin | Cecelia | 1968 | Doctor of Science | |
| Still | Timothy | 1968 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Mitchell | Eleanor | 1968 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Dwyer | Florence Price | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Burke | Kenneth | 1968 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Peterson | Martha Elizabeth | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Judson | Margaret Atwood | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Thant | U | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Udall | Stewart Lee | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Vermeule | Emily Dickinson Townsend | 1968 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Foster | William Chapman | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smyth | Henry DeWolf | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Wheeler | John Archibald | 1969 | Doctor of Science | |
| Buck | Pearl S. | 1969 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Mailer | Norman | 1969 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Higginbotham, Jr. | A. Leon | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Alampi | Philip | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lewis | Henry | 1969 | Doctor of Music | |
| Brée | Germaine | 1969 | Doctor of Letters |
