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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moxon | Rosamond Sawyer | 1958 | Master of Arts | |
| Volk | Harry Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Hottel | Althea Kratz | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Bailey | Charles Philamore | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Cuthbertson | David Paton | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Dean | Arthur Hobson | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Fiske | Jessie Gladys | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Brennan, Jr. | William Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bergethon | Kaare Roald | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cleary | Edward John | 1959 | Doctor of Science | |
| Fuchs | Morris | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Mitchell | James Paul | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Black | Eugene Robert | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jones | Lewis Webster | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smith | Howard Anthony | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Everett | Thomas Henry | 1959 | Master of Science | |
| Fair | Ethel Marion | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Cullman | Howard Stix | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Houle | Cyril Orvin | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Finletter | Thomas Knight | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Graham | Martha | 1959 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Diekhoff | John Siemon | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Francis | John Joseph | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hall | Frederick Wilson | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| MacKay | Kenneth Campbell | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Williams, Jr. | Harrison Arlington | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bunting | Mary Ingraham | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Powers | William | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Herrmann | Lewis Mordecai | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lett | Harold Alfred | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Kaiser | John Boynton | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Ormandy | Eugene | 1960 | Doctor of Music | |
| Wescott | Lloyd Bruce | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Kriendler | Irving Robert | 1961 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Dillon | Clarence Douglas | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Piel | Gerard | 1961 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Heidelberger | Michael | 1961 | Doctor of Science | |
| Rukeyser | Muriel | 1961 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Gidney | Ray Millard | 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 | |
| Mazur | Paul Myer | 1961 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Stetin | Sol | 1961 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Weeks | Edward A. | 1962 | Doctor of Letters | |
| White | Ruth Patricia | 1962 | Master of Fine Arts | |
| Myers | Chauncie Kilmer | 1962 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Clapp | Margaret | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dougherty | John Joseph | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sessions | Roger | 1962 | Doctor of Music |