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 | |
| Burns | Arthur Frank | 1955 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Kenyon | Lee John | 1955 | Master of Arts | |
| Burton | Glenn Willard | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Newmark | Nathan Mortimore | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Komp | William H.W. | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Sachar | Libby Bernstein | 1955 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Davis | Jess Harrison | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Case | Clifford Phillip | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Snedeker | Chester Wesley | 1955 | Master of Arts | |
| Benson | Ezra Taft | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Moore | Marianne Craig | 1955 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Friend, Jr. | Albert Mathias | 1955 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Fulbright | James William | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sebrell, Jr. | William Henry | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hoover, Jr. | Herbert | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mumford | Lawrence Quincy | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Thomson | Virgil | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Shockley | William B. | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hughes | Joseph Egan | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| McDonough | Roger Henry | 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Hoffman | Samuel David | 1957 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Morse | David Abner | 1957 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cole | William Harder | 1957 | Doctor of Science | |
| 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 | |
| Anderson | Marian | 1957 | Doctor of Music | |
| Threlkeld | Curtis Hugh | 1957 | Doctor of Letters | |
| 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 | |
| Blackmur | Richard Palmer | 1958 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hottel | Althea Kratz | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Gronquist | Carl Harry | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Bailey | Charles Philamore | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Cuthbertson | David Paton | 1958 | Doctor of Science |