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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Young | Donald Ramsey | 1955 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Seabrook | Charles Franklin | 1955 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Moore | Marianne Craig | 1955 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Benson | Ezra Taft | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Friend, Jr. | Albert Mathias | 1955 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Fulbright | James William | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Burns | Arthur Frank | 1955 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Newmark | Nathan Mortimore | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Burton | Glenn Willard | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Kenyon | Lee John | 1955 | Master of Arts | |
| Sachar | Libby Bernstein | 1955 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Komp | William H.W. | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Snedeker | Chester Wesley | 1955 | Master of Arts | |
| Case | Clifford Phillip | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Davis | Jess Harrison | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lee | Percy Maxim | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sebrell, Jr. | William Henry | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Johnson | Thomas Herbert | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Thomson | Virgil | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Shockley | William B. | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hoover, Jr. | Herbert | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mumford | Lawrence Quincy | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Quimby | Edith Hinkley | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Vandervilt | Arthur | 1956 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Hughes | Joseph Egan | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| McDonough | Roger Henry | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
| 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 | |
| Park | Rosemary | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hardt | Robert Andrew | 1956 | Doctor of Philosophy | |
| Peyre | Henri Maurice | 1957 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Nelson | Oswald George | 1957 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Hoffman | Samuel David | 1957 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Morse | David Abner | 1957 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cole | William Harder | 1957 | Doctor of Science | |
| Threlkeld | Curtis Hugh | 1957 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Goheen | Robert Francis | 1957 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kertes | Ferdinand | 1957 | Doctor of Science | |
| Anderson | Marian | 1957 | Doctor of Music | |
| Reston | James Barrett | 1957 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Weintraub | Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Leopold | Alice Koller | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Martin | William Hope | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Moxon | Rosamond Sawyer | 1958 | Master of Arts | |
| Blackmur | Richard Palmer | 1958 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hottel | Althea Kratz | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Volk | Harry Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Bailey | Charles Philamore | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters |