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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benson | Ezra Taft | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Friend, Jr. | Albert Mathias | 1955 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Newmark | Nathan Mortimore | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Komp | William H.W. | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Fulbright | James William | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sachar | Libby Bernstein | 1955 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Burns | Arthur Frank | 1955 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Burton | Glenn Willard | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Snedeker | Chester Wesley | 1955 | Master of Arts | |
| Moore | Marianne Craig | 1955 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Young | Donald Ramsey | 1955 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Seabrook | Charles Franklin | 1955 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Davis | Jess Harrison | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Case | Clifford Phillip | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kenyon | Lee John | 1955 | Master of Arts | |
| 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 | |
| Lee | Percy Maxim | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Park | Rosemary | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Johnson | Thomas Herbert | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Felmly | Lloyd McPherson | 1956 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Cameron | Donald Forrester | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Boyd | Julian Parks | 1956 | 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 | |
| Nelson | Oswald George | 1957 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Threlkeld | Curtis Hugh | 1957 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Cole | William Harder | 1957 | Doctor of Science | |
| Anderson | Marian | 1957 | Doctor of Music | |
| Reston | James Barrett | 1957 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Morse | David Abner | 1957 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hoffman | Samuel David | 1957 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Goheen | Robert Francis | 1957 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Peyre | Henri Maurice | 1957 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Kertes | Ferdinand | 1957 | Doctor of Science | |
| Gronquist | Carl Harry | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Melcher | Frederic Gershom | 1958 | Doctor of Letters | |
| MacCarter | Beatrice Bouchier | 1958 | Master of Arts | |
| Blackmur | Richard Palmer | 1958 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Volk | Harry Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Mahan | Edna | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Leopold | Alice Koller | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bailey | Charles Philamore | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters |