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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mahan | Edna | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Brennan, Jr. | William Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Leopold | Alice Koller | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Volk | Harry Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 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 | |
| Houle | Cyril Orvin | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Everett | Thomas Henry | 1959 | Master of Science | |
| Fair | Ethel Marion | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Graham | Martha | 1959 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Cullman | Howard Stix | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Finletter | Thomas Knight | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Diekhoff | John Siemon | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Francis | John Joseph | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mitchell | James Paul | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smith | Howard Anthony | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bergethon | Kaare Roald | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Fuchs | Morris | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Cleary | Edward John | 1959 | Doctor of Science | |
| Jones | Lewis Webster | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Black | Eugene Robert | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hall | Frederick Wilson | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Powers | William | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| MacKay | Kenneth Campbell | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Wescott | Lloyd Bruce | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Ormandy | Eugene | 1960 | Doctor of Music | |
| Herrmann | Lewis Mordecai | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lett | Harold Alfred | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Bunting | Mary Ingraham | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kaiser | John Boynton | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Williams, Jr. | Harrison Arlington | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mazur | Paul Myer | 1961 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Piel | Gerard | 1961 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Kriendler | Irving Robert | 1961 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Rukeyser | Muriel | 1961 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Heidelberger | Michael | 1961 | Doctor of Science | |
| Dillon | Clarence Douglas | 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 | |
| Gidney | Ray Millard | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stetin | Sol | 1961 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Kessler | Henry Howard | 1962 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Weeks | Edward A. | 1962 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Myers | Chauncie Kilmer | 1962 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Hughes | Richard Joseph | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sessions | Roger | 1962 | Doctor of Music | |
| Auchter | George David | 1962 | Doctor of Science |