Honorary Degrees Recipients

Year Awarded	Name	Degree
1894 Commencement	Rebecca Corwin	M.A.
	Alice Gordon Gulick	M.A.
	Ellen C. Parsons	M.A.
1895-1897	No Degrees Awarded
1898 Commencement	Daniel Kimball Pearsons	M.A.
1899 Commencement	President William McKinley	D.C.L.
1900 Commencement	Ada L. Howard	Litt.D.
1901 Commencement	Mary A. Evans	Litt.D.
	Susan Tolman Mills	Litt.D.
	Julia E. Ward	Litt.D.
	Mary Alma Sawyer	M.A.
1902 Commencement	Ella Louise Brownback	M.A.
	Nancy Jane Davis	M.A.
1903 Commencement	Mary Almira Smith	M.A.
1904 Commencement	Harriet N. Haskell	Litt.D.
	Frances M. Hazen	M.A.
	Elizabeth B. Prentiss	M.A.
	Louise Fitz-Randolph	M.A.
1905 Commencement	Sarah P. Eastman	Litt.D.
1906 Commencement	M. Josephine Brink	M.A.
	Abbie Park Ferguson	M.A.
	Julia H. May	M.A.
	Grace Peckham Murray	M.A.
1907-1908	No Degrees Awarded
1909 Commencement	Luette P. Bentley	M.A.
1910 Commencement	Anna E. Bliss	Litt.D.
1911	No Degrees Awarded
1912 Commencement	Caroline Boardman Greene	M.A.
	Mary Almira Smith	Sc.D.
	Ada Louise Comstock	Litt.D.
	Mary Frances Farnham	Litt.D.
	Abbie Park Ferguson	Litt.D.
	Lida Shaw King	Litt.D.
	Florence Purington	Litt.D.
	Caroline Ransom	Litt.D.
	Vivian Blanche Small	Litt.D.
	Katharine Bement Davis	LL.D.
	Julia Clifford Lathrop	LL.D.
	Alexander Meiklejohn	LL.D.
	Ellen Fitz Pendleton	LL.D.
	Lillian D. Wald	LL.D.
1913	No Degrees Awarded
1914 Commencement	Anna Cheney Edwards	Litt.D.
	A. Lyman Williston	LL.D.
1915	No Degrees Awarded
1916 Commencement	Helen Frances Kimball	M.A.
	Lucy Skidmore Scribner	M.A.
1917 Commencement	Nancy Jane Davis	L.H.D.
	Adelia Gates Hensley	L.H.D.
1918	No Degrees Awarded
1919 Commencement	Louise Baird Wallace	Sc.D.
1920	No Degrees Awarded
1921 Commencement	Amy Farley Rowland	M.A.
	Cornelia M. Clapp	Sc.D.
	Annie Warburton Goodrich	Sc.D.
	Julia C. Stimson	Sc.D.
1922	No Degrees Awarded
1923 Commencement	Henrietta Edgecomb Hooker	Sc.D.
	Marion Gaylord Atwell	Litt.D.
	Lucy Hale Tapley	Litt.D.
	Tetsu Yasui	Litt.D.
1924 Commencement	William Churchill Hammond	Mus.D.
1925 Commencement	Elizabeth Parsons Jones	M.A.
	Emily White Smith	M.A.
	Alice Browne Frame	Litt.D.
	Matilda Calder Thurston	Litt.D.
Founder’s Day	Emily R. Bissell	M.A.
	Joseph Allen Skinner	L.H.D.
	Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge	Litt.D.
	Marion Edwards Park	LL.D.
1926 Commencement	Eleanor McDougall	Litt.D.
	Alice Hamilton	Sc.D.
	Esther Loring Richards	Sc.D.
1927 Commencement	Edith Wynne Kennedy	M.A.
	Frances Perkins	M.A.
	Caroline Ardella Yale	LL.D.
1928	No Degrees Awarded
1929 Commencement	Olive Sawyer Hoyt	Litt.D.
	Jesse Gilman Nichols	Litt.D.
	Florence Matilda Read	Litt.D.
	Florence Rena Sabin	Sc.D.
1930 Commencement	Edith Marion Coon	Litt.D.
	Jane Louise Mesick	Litt.D.
	Ruth Sears Pratt	Litt.D.
1931-1932	No Degrees Awarded
1933 Commencement	Miriam F. Carpenter	Litt.D.
	Linda A. Eastman	Litt.D.
	William C. Hill	Litt.D.
	Marjorie Hope Nicolson	Litt.D.
	Ossip Gabrilowitsch	Mus.D.
1934 Commencement	Henry Albert Stimson	Litt.D.
1935 Commencement	Grace Abbott	Litt.D.
	Meta Glass	Litt.D
	Josephine Aspinwall Roche	Litt.D.
	Jane Addams	LL.D.
1936 Commencement	Harriet Beardslee Prescott	Litt.D.
	Florence Ellinwood Allen	LL.D.
1937 Mount Holyoke College Centenary	Katharine Blunt	LL.D.
	Margery Corbett	LL.D.
	Mary Redington Ely	Litt.D.
	Margaret Ferguson	Sc.D
	Dorothy Canfield Fisher	Litt.D.
	Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve	LL.D.
	Malvina Hoffman	Litt.D.
	Yau Tsit Law	Litt.D.
	Eva LeGallienne	Litt.D.
	Mildred Helen McAfee	LL.D.
	Margaret Shove Morriss	LL.D.
	Anna Pell	Sc.D.
	Eileen Power	Litt.D.
	Aurelia Henry Reinhardt	LL.D.
	Alice Ravenel Huger Smith	Litt.D.
	Roberta Teal Swartz	Litt.D.
	Margaret Tyler	Sc.D.
	Leonie Villard	Litt.D.
	Frances Lester Warner	Litt.D.
	Emily Susan Wilson	Litt.D.
Commencement	Mary Ashby Cheek	LL.D.
Founder’s Day	Annie Jump Cannon	Sc.D.
1938 Commencement	William Allan Neilson	LL.D.
1939-1940	No Degrees Awarded
1941 Commencement	Queen Juliana (Netherlands)	LL.D.
1942-1946	No Degrees Awarded
1947 Special Convocation (May)	Elizabeth George	LL.D.
Commencement	John Lyon Collyer	Sc.D.
	Katharine Elizabeth McBride	LL.D.
1948 Commencement	Harriett May Allyn	LL.D.
	Margaret Elizabeth Conrad	Sc.D.
	Frederick May Eliot	LL.D.
1949 Commencement	Herbert John Davis	Litt.D.
1950 Commencement	Marianne Moore	Litt.D.
	Alva Reimer	LL.D.
1951 Commencement	Sarah Gibson Blanding	LL.D.
	Helen Dalton Bragdon	LL.D.
	Margaret Clapp	LL.D.
	Eleanor Dewey Mason	Sc.D.
1952 Commencement	Emma Perry Carr	Sc.D.
	Wallace Stevens	Litt.D.
1953 Commencement	Martha May Eliot	LL.D.
1954 Commencement	Helen Maud Cam	LL.D.
	Helen Rogers	LL.D.
1955 Commencement	Margaret Morse	Sc.D.
	Edward R. Murrow	LL.D.
	Rosemary Park	LL.D.
	Earl Warren	LL.D
1956 Commencement	Rosamond Cross	LHD
	William Fulbright	LL.D.
1957 Commencement	Dorothy Westgate Gifford	Sc.D.
	Roswell Gray Ham	Litt.D.
	Frances Perkins	LL.D.
	Pauline Tompkins	LL.D.
1958 Commencement	Marian Anderson	Mus.D.
	Henry P. Kendall	LHD
	Alexander Howard Meneely	LL.D.
	Helen Sawyer	Sc.D.
	Winthrop Hiram Smith	LHD
	Benjamin Fletcher Write	LL.D.
1959 Commencement	Miriam Camp	LL.D.
	Pauline Frederick	LL.D.
	Beatrice Fry Hyslop	Litt.D.
	Rosemond Tuve	Litt.D.
1960 Commencement	Olive Copeland	MA
	Cora Du Bois	LHD
	Mildred Trotter	Sc.D.
	Birgit Vennesland	Sc.D.
1961 Commencement	Helen Childs	LHD
	Maria Goeppert	Sc.D
	Arthur Ryan	LHD
	Katie Wilcos	LHD
1962 Academic Convocation	Ellsworth Bunker	LL.D.
	Renuka Mukerji	LHD
125th Anniversary Convocation (Nov. 8)	Germaine Bree Agregation	Litt.D.
	Millicent Carey	LHD
	Ethel B. Dietrich	LHD
	Eleanor Lansing Dulles	LL.D.
	Madam Felisa Rincon de Gautier	LL.D
	Ann Hatfield	DFA
	Susanne K. Langer	Litt.D.
	Harper Lee	Litt.D.
	Janet Ward McArthur	Sc.D.
	Mina Rees	Sc.D.
	Mary Sears	Sc.D.
	Marjorie Smith	LHD
	Hon. Margaret Chase Smith	LL.D.
1963 Commencement	His Excellency U Thant	LL.D.
1964	No Degrees Awarded
1965 Commencement	Virginia Apgar	Sc.D.
	Katharine Butler	Sc.D.
	Helen Vincent McLean	Sc.D.
1966 Commencement	Mary Higley	MA
Founder’s Day	Morris Carnovsky	DFA
	Martha Hill	DFA
	Lillian Gish	DFA
	Lillian Hellman	DFA
	Peggy Wood	DFA
1967 Commencement	Hedley Donovan	Litt.D.
	Katherine Graham	Litt.D.
	Robert McCloskey	Litt.D.
	Louise Hall Tharp	Litt.D.
	Anna Mary Wells	Litt.D.
1968 Commencement	Mary Gaver	Litt.D.
	Francis Keppel	Litt.D.
	Alma S. Jacobs	Litt.D.
1969	No Degrees Awarded
1970 Commencement	Meribeth Elliott Cameron	LL.D.
Founder’s Day	Richard Glenn Gettell	LL.D.
1971 Commencement	Jean Sutherland Boggs	Litt.D.
	Ada Louise Landman	Litt.D.
	Phyllis Williams	Litt.D.
	Georgia O’Keefe	Litt.D.
	Phoebe Baroody	Litt.D.
1972 Commencement	Constance Endicott Hartt	Sc.D.
	Margaret Atwood Judson	Litt.D.
	Elizabeth Meredith Lee	LHD
	Helen Swift Mitchell	Sc.D.
	Barbara McClure White	LL.D.
100th Anniversary of the Alumnae Association/ Founder’s Day (Nov. 12)	Florence L. Anderson	LHD
	Rachel Fuller Brown	Sc.D.
	Ella Tambussi Grasso	LL.D.
	Alice Kimball Smith	LHD
	Anna Budd Ware	LHD
	Emily Lippincott Wick	Sc.D.
1973 Commencement	Matina Souretis Horner	LL.D.
	Grace Augusta Rotzel	LHD
	Lucile Tomlinson Wessmann	LHD
1974	No Degrees Awarded
1975 Commencement	Mary Eleanor Manchester	LL.D.
	Lucy Weston Pickett	Sc.D.
	Christianna Smith	Sc.D.
Founder’s Day	Jill Ker Conway	LL.D.
	Carol Clendening Laise	LL.D.
	Clare Boothe Luce	LL.D.
	Helvi Sipila	LL.D.
	Eudora Welty	LHD
1976 Commencement	Barbara Jean Betz	Sc.D.
	Ruth Gill Van Cleve	LL.D.
	Margaret Hastings	Litt.D.
	Marjorie Fiske Lowenthal	Sc.D.
	Elizabeth Peters Tidball	LHD
Founder’s Day	Julie Harris	DFA
1977 Commencement	Ruth Ida Abrams	LL.D.
	Virginia Mayo Fiske	Sc.D.
	Dorothy Hewitt Hutchinson	LHD
	Mabel Murphy Smythe	LHD
1978 Commencement	Robert E. Barrett	Bd. of Trustees Medal for Distinguished Service
	Vera Kistiakowsky	Sc.D.
	Margaret McElderry Lunt	L.H.D.
	Barbara F. Palser	Sc.D.
	Jean E. Sammet	Sc.D.
	David Bicknell Truman	LL.D.
	Florence S. Schorske Wald	L.H.D.
1979 Commencement	Ellen Goodman	L.H.D.
	Barbara Wetheim Tuchman	Litt.D.
	Marjorie Seaton Hooper	L.H.D.
	Elizabeth L. Eisenstein	Litt.D.
Founder’s Day	Mary E. Tuttle	Bd. of Trustees Medal for Distinguished Service
1980 Commencement	Beryl Robichaud Collins	Sc.D.
	Romeo J. Grenier	The Edward Hitchcock Bowl
	John W. Irving	Litt.D.
	Catherine McArdle Kelleher	Litt.D.
Founder’s Day	Marina Whitman	LL.D.
1981 Commencement	Isabel Steele Blish	L.H.D.
	Ann merchant Boesgaard	Sc.D.
	Shirley Chisholm	LL.D.
	Virginia Foster Durr	L.H.D.
	Rosa Parks	L.H.D.
	Catherine G. Roraback	LL.D.
	Beverly Willis	D.F.A.
Founder’s Day	Jan DeGaetani	D.Mus.
	Betty Parsons	D.F.A.
1982 Commencement	Mary Elizabeth Corning	Sc.D.
	Alice Stone Ilchman	LL.D.
	Elizabeth Storey Landis	LL.D.
	Sergei A. Schelkunoff	Sc.D.
Founder’s Day	Flora Lewis	Litt.D.
	Cyrus R. Vance	LL.D.
	Baroness Janet Baker Young	LL.D.
	Geoffrey T. Young	Sc.D.
1983 Commencement	Isabel Bishop	D.F.A.
	Denis Johnston	Litt.D.
	Ruth C. Lawson	LL.D.
	George Steiner	Litt.D.
	Zara Shakow Steiner	Litt.D.
	Ruth Whittemore	Sc.D.
Founder’s Day	Alice Mitchell Rivlin	LL.D.
	Nancy Hays Teeters	LL.D.
	Phyllis Ann Wallace	LL.D.
1984 Second Semester Convocation	Bonnie Ethel Cone	LH.D.
Commencement	Marilyn Wong Fu	D.F.A.
	Barbara Hinckley	LL.D.
	Barbara B. Kennelly	LL.D.
	Helen Padykula	Sc.D.
Founder’s Day	Mary Fieser	Sc.D.
	Anna Jane Harrison	Sc.D.
	Eleanor Tobey Milliken	Sc.D.
	Berta Vogel Scharrer	Sc.D.
Special Convocation, November	Susanna Agnelli	LL.D.
	Italo Calvino	Litt.D.
1985 Commencement	Margaret Atwood	Litt.D.
	Elizabeth Barrett-Connor	Sc.D.
	Siegried Achorn Centerwall	L.H.D.
	Nadine Gordimer	Litt.D.
	Winnie Mandela	L.H.D.
	Gjertrud C. Schnackenberg	Litt.D.
	Helen Wolff	Litt.D.
Founder’s Day	Sissela Bok	LL.D.
	Shirley Hufstedler	LL.D.
	Patricia Wald	LL.D.
1986 Special Convocation, April	Riccardo Muti	Mus.D.
Commencement	Brij Kumari Paul Batra	Sc.D.
	Judith Voris Reppy	LL.D.
	Ida Belle Sophia Scudder	L.H.D.
	Xie Xide	Sc.D.
1987 Commencement	Maya Angelou	L.H.D.
	David Baltimore	Sc.D.
	Silvio O. Conte	LL.D.
	Dolores Hayden	L.H.D.
	Alice Shih-Hou Huang	Sc.D.
	Kapila Vatsyayan	D.F.A.
	Frances Cooper Volkmann	Sc.D.
1988 Commencement	Henry G. Cisneros	L.H.D.
	James O. Freedman	LL.D.
	Madeleine Kunin	Ll.D.
	Margaret McCleary, S.P.	L.H.D.
	Shulamit Ran	D.F.A.
	Antoni Zygmund	Sc.D.
1989 Commencement	Glenn Close	L.H.D.
	Matilda Stewart McIntire	Sc.D.
	Ann Petry	L.H.D.
	Adele Smith Simmons	LL.D.
	Jean Sudrann	L.H.D.
	William Julius Wilson	LL.D.
Founder’s Day	Louise George Clubb	L.H.D.
	Ruth J. Dean	L.H.D.
	Antonia Glasse	L.H.D.
	Barbara Stoler Miller	L.H.D.
	Dolores Prida	L.H.D.
1990 Commencement	Francoise Lievre Dieterlen	Sc.D.
	Janet A. Emig	L.H.D.
	Franklyn Jnifer	LL.D.
	Ann Richardson	L.H.D.
	Wendy Wasserstein	L.H.D.
1991 Commencement	Evelyn Fox Keller	L.H.D.
	Mary Moore	LL.D.
	Anna C. Roosevelt	L.H.D.
	Helen Murphy Tepperman	Sc.D.
	Jay Tepperman	Sc.D.
	Sheila Widnall	Sc.D.
1992 Founder's Day	Soshitsu Sen	LL.D.
	Romila Thapar	L.H..D.
1992 Commencement	Jean McPerson Bennett	Sc.D.
	Catherine Higgs Milton	L.H.D.
	Daphne Park	LL.D.
	Patricia S. Schroeder	LL.D.
1993 Commencement	Judith Kurland	L.H.D.
	Theodore R. Sizer	L.H.D.
1994 Commencement	Anne C. Edmonds	L.H.D.
	Nita Melnikoff Lowey	LL.D.
	Lorraine Monroe	L.H.D.
	Felice N. Schwartz	L.H.D.
	Michiko Nishiura Weglyn	Litt.D.
1995 Commencement	James Hadley Billington	L.H.D.
	Sarah Caldwell	L.H.D.
	Adele Mintz Dalsimer	L.H.D.
	Helen W. Donovan	Litt.D.
	Edmund Wyatt Gordon Gitt	Sc.D.
	Susan Elizabeth Gitt Gordon	Sc.D.
	Elizabeth Topham Kennan	Litt.D.
	Ann Willis Richards	LL.D.
1996 Commencement	Marjorie Benedict Cohn	D.F.A.
	Margaret W. Conkey	L.H.D.
	Mary Maples Dunn	L.H.D.
	Mary Luckett Murray	L.H.D.
	Donna Shalala	LL.D.
1997 Commencement	Madeleine Korbel Albright	LL.D.
	Linda Chavez-Thompson	L.H.D.
	Aminata Sow Fall	L.H.D.
	Anneli Cahn Lax	Sc.D.
	Arturo Madrid	L.H.D.
	Gloria Johnson Powell	Sc.D.
1998 Commencement	Mary E. Clutter	Sc.D.
	Johnnetta B. Cole	L.H.D.
	Anita L. DeFrantz	LL.D.
	Nancy Gustafson	D.F.A.
	Lillian M.C. Randall	D.F.A.
1999 Special Ceremony at Pomona College, Claremont, CA	Virginia Hamilton Adair	L.H.D.
	Ama Ata Aidoo	L.H.D.
	Frances Hall Miller	LL.D.
	Roy Neuberger	L.H.D.
	Anna Quindlen	L.H.D.
	Nancy J. Vickers	L.H.D.
2000 Commencement	Roberta Guaspari	Mus.D.
	Glenda A. Hatchet	LL.D.
	Samuel R. Insanally	LL.D.
	Dorothy Rooke McCulloch	L.H.D.
	Mary Patterson McPherson	L.D.D.
2001 Commencement	Rita Rossi Colwell	Sc.D.
	Susan D. Kare	Sc.D.
	Suzan-Lori Parks	D.A.
	Om Dutta Sharma	L.H.D.
	Ruth J. Simmons	L.H.D.
	Jean E. Taylor	Sc.D.
2002 Commencement	Ellen Baxter	L.H.D.
	Claude de Renty du Granrut	LL.D.
	Lila M. Gierasch	Sc.D.
	Peter Gomes	L.H.D.
	Noor, Queen of Jordan	L.H.D.
2003 Commencement	Judy Blume	D.F.A.
	Jane Famiano Garvey	L.H.D.
	Nancy Woodward Hendrie	Sc.D.
	James A. Joseph	L.H.D.
	Amartya Sen	LL.D.
2004 Commencement	Kim Campbell	LL.D.
	Dorothy I. Height	L.H.D.
	Nancy Skinner Nordhoff	L.H.D.
	Nadine Strossen	LL.D.
2005 Commencement	Krisana Kraisintu	Sc.D.
	Beverly Daniel Tatum	L.H.D.
	Nina Totenberg	L.H.D.
	Barbara Wilson	Sc.D.
2006 Commencement	Hilda Chen Apuy	L.H.D.
	Kitty Iliopoulas Kyriacopoulas	L.H.D.
	Joyce Carol Oates	L.H.D.
	Eric Reeves	L.H.D.
	Eugenie Scott	Sc.D.
2007 Commencement	Eleanor Reed Adair	Sc.D.
	Debra Martin Chase	D.A.
	Wendy Kopp	L.H.D.
	Charles D. Swift	LL.D.
2008 Commencement	Carol Gilligan	L.H.D.
	Mary W. Gray	L.H.D.
	Charles Ogletree	LL.D.
	Harriet Levine Weissman	L.H.D.
2009 Commencement	Loulwa al-Faisal al Saud, Princess of Saudi Arabia	L.H.D.
	Mary McAleese	LL.D.
	Clare Waterman	Sc.D.
2010 Commencement	Gail Collins	L.H.D.
	Joanne V. Creighton	L.H.D.
	Sheila Barshay Goldbloom	L.H.D.
	Victoria Hale	Sc.D.
2011 Commencement	Martha Craven Nussbaum	L.H.D.
	Margaret Marshall	LL.D.
	Nancy Ahlberg Mellor	L.H.D.
	Gordon H. Sato	Sc.D.
2012 Commencement	Malika Dutt (MHC 1983)	L.H.D.
	Bernard LaFayette, Jr.	L.H.D.
	Azar Nafisi	L.H.D.
	Neil DeGrasse Tyson	Sc.D.
2013 Commencement	Joanne R. Lupton (MHC 1966)	Sc.D.
	Mary C. Mazzio (MHC 1983)	L.H.D.
	Kavita N. Ramdas (MHC 1985)	L.H.D.
	Mona K. Sutphen (MHC 1989)	L.H.D.
2014 Commencement	Deborah Bial	L.H.D.
	Deborah Harkness (MHC 1986)	L.H.D.
	Karen G. Jennings Lewis (MHC 1974)	L.H.D.
	Patricia A. Robertson (MHC 1972)	Sc.D.