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Chronological List of Honorary Degree Recipients

Abbreviations:
D.B.A., Doctor of Business Administration; D.C.L., Doctor of Civil Law; D.D., Doctor of Divinity; D.Eng., Doctor of Engineering; D.F.A., Doctor of Fine Arts; D.Ped., Doctor of Pedagogy; D.Phil., Doctor of Philosophy; D.Sc., Doctor of Science; L.H.D., Doctor of Humane Letters; Litt.D., Doctor of Letters; LL.D., Doctor of Laws; M.A., Master of Arts; M.S., Master of Science; Mus.D., Doctor of Music; S.T.D., Doctor of Sacred Theology

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See also: Alphabetical list of honorary degree recipients.

1858
The Rev. Phillip Loque, M.A.
The Rev. John Nolan, M.A.

1859
The Rev. Nelson E. Cobleigh, D.D.
Julius F. Kellogg, M.A. [Former faculty]
Dymon Y. Kilgore, M.A.

1864
The Hon. James T. Lewis, LL.D. [Trustee]
The Rev. Wilson G. Miller, D.D.

1865
The Rev. M. Bennett, D.D.
Prof. Ezra S. Carr, LL.D.

1866
The Rev. O. J. Cowles, M.A.
The Rev. Thomas Jones, D.D.
The Rev. D. H. Muller, M.A.

1867
The Rev. Jabez Brooks, D.D.
John W. Sterling, LL.D.

1868
The Rev. Loren L. Knox, D.D. [Former faculty]
The Rev. P. B. Pease, M.A. [Trustee]
Francis A. Robinson, D.Phil.

1869
Andrew J. Craig, M.A.
The Rev. William Roberts Davis, D.D.

1870
William Davis, D.D.
The Rev. H. Eddy, D.D.
The Rev. G. C. Haddock, M.A.
The Rev. Charles C. Youmans, M.A.

1871
W. H. Cook, M.A.

1872
J. B. Bachman, M.A.
The Rev. Samuel Fallows, D.D.
B. W. McClain, D.Phil.
C. D. Pillsbury, M.A.
H. C. Tilton, M.A.

1874
The Rev. J. O. Peck, D.D.
George Ripley, LL.D.

1876
Alexander L. Brice, D.D.
Louise M. Hodgkins, M.A.

1877
William H. DeMott, LL.D.
John E. Earle, D.Phil.
The Rev. G. S. Hubbs, D.D.

1878
Daniel Bonbright, LL.D.
The Rev. E. H. Merrill, D.D.
The Rev. L. N. Wheeler, M.A. [Trustee]

1879
The Rev. Henry Colman, D.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1857, trustee]
Harry Hudson Nicholson, M.A.
The Rev. G. M. Steele, LL.D. [President, Lawrence University, 1865-1879]

1880
The Rev. J. L. Hewitt, M.A.
The Rev. William Page Stowe, D.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1858]

1881
Chester W. Church, M.A.
The Rev. J. E. Irish, D.D.
Helen F. Smith, M.A.
The Rev. L. N. Wheeler, D.D.

1883
W. F. Yocum, D.D. [Lawrence College Class of 1860]

1885
The Rev. A. Gillett, D.D.

1886
Sally G. Bagwell, M.A.
Olin A. Curtis, D.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1877]

1889
The Rev. R. W. Bosworth, D.D.
Herman Hoffman, D.D.
Bradford Paul Raymond, D.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1870; President, Lawrence University, 1883-1889]
Eugene G. Updyke, D.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1875]

1890
Ephraim L. Eaton, S.T.D.
Isaac I. Leavitt, S.T.D.

1892
The Rev. C. M. Heard, D.D.
John Hicks, LL.D. [Attended Lawrence University 1865-67, trustee]
The Rev. Burt E. Wheeler, D.D.

1893
James Clark Foye, LL.D.
Martha Anne Wythe, M.A.

1894
James Ross Kaye, D.Phil.

1895
The Rev. Michael Benson, D.D.
The Rev. Henry Potter Haylett, D.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1876]
The Rev. John P. D. John, LL.D.
The Rev. William J. McKay, D.D.
The Rev. George H. Trever, D.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1881]

1896
The Rev. George W. Case, D.D. [Trustee]
Prof. Duncan McGregor, Litt.D.
The Hon. William H. Mylrea, M.A. [Trustee]
Claudius B. Spencer, D.D.
J. J. Thompson, M.A. [Lawrence University Class of 1859]

1897
The Rev. John Scott Davis, D.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1877]
The Rev. Henry Faville, D.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1871]
The Rev. John Faville, D.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1871]
The Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, D.D. [Son of Amos Lawrence]
The Rev. Samuel W. Trousdale, D.D.

1898
The Rev. John F. Berry, D.D.
Royal S. Copeland, M.A.
Margaret Jane Evans, Litt.D.
Francis W. Parker, LL.D.

1899
The Rev. J. E. Farmer, D.D.

1900
The Rev. Ira H. LeFetra, D.D.
The Rev. Fred C. Pillsbury, D.D. [Trustee]

1901
The Rev. A. B. Storms, D.D.

1902
The Rev. George E. Fellows, L.H.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1879]
The Rev. Ray C. Harker, D.D.
The Rev. Enoch Perry, D.D.

1903
George Butters, D.D.
The Rev. J. S. Lean, D.D.
The Rev. F. W. Wright, D.D.

1904
Guido Bossard, D.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1882]
Judge R. D. Marshall, LL.D.

1905
Olin A. Curtis, LL.D.
The Rev. Arthur W. Stalker, D.D.
The Rev. J. H. Tippet, D.D. [Trustee]

1906
The Rev. William Russell Collins, D.D.
Albert Rollo Dyer, Litt.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1859]
Arthur W. Hansen, M.S.
Charles Oliver Merica, LL.D. [Former faculty]
The Rev. George A. Phinney, D.D.
Far Tsau Sing, M.S.

1907
Edith Smith Davis, Litt.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1879]

1908
The Rev. Camden M. Cobern, Litt.D.
Bishop William A. Quayle, LL.D.
Eben E. Rexford, Litt.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1876]

1909
Mary Meade Rogers, M.A.

1910
The Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, LL.D.
Frederick W. Long, D.D.

1911
The Rev. Archey D. Ball, D.D.

1912
The Rev. Silas Evans, LL.D.
Bishop Theodore S. Henderson, LL.D.
The Rev. Robert S. Ingraham, D.D. [Trustee]
Chief Justice John Bradley Winslow, D.D.

1913
The Rev. Edwin Church Dixon, D.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1888]
Emanuel Gerechter, D.D. [Former faculty]

1915
George Evans, D.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1893]

1916
Bishop Charles Bayard Mitchell, LL.D.

1917
The Rev. E. D. Kohlstedt, D.D. [Lawrence College Class of 1911]
Prof. Delbert Giles Lean, L.H.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1901]
The Rev. William M. Moore, D.D.

1918
The Rev. James W. Irish, D.D.

1919
The Rev. Edward William Blakeman, D.D.
The Rev. Richard Evans, D.D.
Capt. S. J. Hutchinson, LL.D.
Lt. Robert Renard, LL.D.

1920
The Rev. Frederick William Harris, D.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1902]
The Rev. William Bell Millar, D.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1889]
The Rev. John Saunders Ladd Thomas, D.D.

1921 The Rev. Henry Guy Goodsell, D.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1905]
Frederick Cook Morehouse, Litt.D.
The Rev. Frank L. Roberts, D.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1907]

1922
Dr. James Rae Arneill, LL.D.
Elsie Storrs Dow, Litt.D.
The Rev. Frederick Carl Eiselen, LL.D.
Rupert Percy Hutton, L.H.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1903]
The Rev. Wilbur F. Tomlinson, D.D.
The Rev. Thomas Daniel Williams, D.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1889]

1923
The Rev. George Francis Barber, D.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1901]
The Rev. Levi Brenner, D.D.
The Rev. Harland Chester Logan, D.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1899]
George Fullmer Reynolds, Litt.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1898]

1924
Samuel Chadwick, D.D.

1926
Lucia Russell Briggs, LL.D. [President of Milwaukee-Downer College]
Frank Wilbur Houghton, M.A. [Lawrence University Class of 1876, trustee]
Mary Julia Black Houghton, M.A. [Lawrence University Class of 1876]
Albert Cornelius Knudson, LL.D.

1927
Rollo Walter Brown, Litt.D.
Edgar George Doudna, M.A.
Guy Stanton Ford, LL.D.
The Rev. William Preston Leek, D.D.
Walter Wallace MacLaren, LL.D.
Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Mus.D.

1928
Samuel McCrea Cavert, D.D.
Norman Egbert Richardson, Litt.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1902]
Reinhardt Thiessen, D.Sc. [Lawrence University Class of 1895]
Minna Isabel Rogers Winslow, M.A. [Lawrence University Class of 1878]

1929
Samuel Alfred Barrett, D.Sc.
Glen Buck, D.B.A. [Lawrence University Class of 1897]
Bertha Evelyn Jaques, D.F.A.
The Rev. William Appleton Lawrence, D.D.
Fred Wesley Sargent, LL.D.
The Rev. Harry Carl Slater, D.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1907]

1930
William George Chanter, D.D.
Hugh John Hughes, M.A. [Lawrence University Class of 1898]
Walter Kasten, LL.D. [Trustee]
Charles Kenneth Leith, D.Sc.
Lois Kimball Matthews Rosenberry, Litt.D. [Trustee]
Francis Allen Wheeler, Mus.D.

1931
The Rev. Douglas Horton, D.D.
Dard Hunter, Litt.D.
Julius Klein, LL.D.
David Harrison Stevens, LL.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1906, trustee]
Frederic Allen Whiting, D.F.A.

1932
Francis Scott Bradford, D.F.A. [Lawrence College Class of 1920]
Ross Aiken Gortner, D.Sc.
David Hunter Miller, D.C.L.
Walter Cecil Owen, LL.D.
Frederic Logan Paxson, Litt.D.

1933
Kenneth John Conant, Litt.D.
Earnest A. Hooton, D.Sc. [Lawrence University Class of 1907]
William Setchel Learned, LL.D.
Charles Riborg Mann, LL.D.

1934
Sewell Lee Avery, LL.D.
The Rev. Charles Luling Barnes, D.D.
Warren Delano Robbins, LL.D.

1935
Tucker Brooke, Litt.D.
Dorothy C. Enderis, M.A.
Alfred Norton Goldsmith, D.Sc.
Carl Hastings Milam, LL.D.
Lloyd Morey, LL.D.

1936
Albert Britt, LL.D.
Howard Thompson Lewis, LL.D. [Lawrence College Class of 1926]
Jonas Lie, D.F.A.
Ben Dekalbe Wood, LL.D.

1937
Anton Julius Carlson, LL.D.
The Rev. Frederic Cunningham Lawrence, D.D.
Frank William Lovejoy, D.Sc.
Charles Henry Worcester, D.F.A. [Trustee]

1938
Harold Bauer, Mus.D.
The Rev. John Baker Hanna, D.D.
Leonarde Keeler, LL.D.
Carrie Emily Morgan, M.A.
Grant Wood, D.F.A.

1939
Carleton Brown, Litt.D.
Noble Cain, Mus.D. [Renounces degree February 15, 1948]
L. Philip Denoyer, M.A.
Harry Alvin Millis, LL.D.
The Rev. Alphonse M. Schwitalla, D.Sc.
The Rev. Frederick James Turner, D.D.

1940
Charles Ward Boyce, LL.D.
George Harrison Shull, D.Sc.

1941
Alvan E. Duerr, LL.D.
Dr. Cornelius Allen Harper, D.Sc.
Jacob Viner, LL.D.

1942
Lloyd Kirkham Garrison, LL.D.
Donald William Kerst, D.Sc.
Bruce Simonds, Mus.D.
Margaret Webster, Litt.D.

1943
George Kenney Bowden, D.C.L.
Mark Hoyt Ingraham, LL.D.
Clark George Kuebler, LL.D.
The Rev. Clarence Seidenspinner, D.D.
Col. Francis Trow Spaulding, LL.D.
Eugene Luther Vidal, D.Sc.

1944
Robert Casadesus, Mus.D.
Carey Croneis, LL.D.
Walter Geist, LL.D.
The Rev. Fred J. Jordan, D.D.
Clifford Burrough Purves, D.Sc.
Gerrit T. Vander Lugt, LL.D.
Henry Merritt Wriston, LL.D. [President, Lawrence College, 1926-1937]

1945
Edwin Broun Fred, LL.D.
Stanley Pargellis, LL.D.
Dr. James Spofford Reeve, LL.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1885]
Angus B. Rothwell, M.A.
Clifton Maxwell Utley, LL.D.

1946
Carl Frederick Wittke, LL.D.

1947
Frances Dorothy Bethurum, Litt.D. [Former faculty]
Victor Lloyd Butterfield, LL.D.
Gordon Rufus Clapp, LL.D. [Lawrence College Class of 1927, trustee]
Donald John Cowling, L.H.D.
Walter Edwin Havighurst, Litt.D.
Frances Dorothy Bethurum Loomis, Litt.D.
Lucille Meusel, D.Mus. [Lawrence College Class of 1924]
Harry Steenbock, D.Sc.
Rowland L. Williams, LL.D.
Elizabeth Wilson, LL.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1890]
Lewis Addison Youtz, D.Sc.

1948
Ray N. Ketcham, LL.D. [Lawrence University Class of 1904]
Otto Kress, D.Sc.
Paul Louis Lehmann, D.D.
Clifford Lee Lord, LL.D.

1949
Joseph Haroutunian, D.D.
James J. Nance, LL.D.
George Earl Watson, LL.D. [Lawrence College Class of 1921, trustee]
Harry Lumm Wells, LL.D.

1950
Daniel S. Defenbacher, D.F.A.
Percy John Ebbott, LL.D.
George Fred Keck, D.F.A.
Douglas Van Steere, D.D.

1951
George Banta, M.A. [Lawrence University Class of 1910, trustee]
Russell Craig Flom, M.A. [Lawrence College Class of 1924, trustee]
John Holmes Hinman, LL.D.
Thomas Parry Jones, D.D.
Charles Edwin Odegaard, L.H.D.
Ruth Harwood Shattuck, M.A. [Lawrence University Class of 1906, trustee]
William Henry Smith, M.A. [Lawrence College Class of 1924]
John Howard Wilterding, M.A. [Lawrence University Class of 1923]

1952
Cornelius Kruse, L.H.D.
Louis Quarles, LL.D. [Trustee]
Payson Sibley Wild, Jr., LL.D. [Trustee]

1953
Alexander Calder, LL.D.
Richard Smith Davis, L.H.D.

1954
Daniel K. Brown, LL.D.
David Clark Everest, LL.D.
G. Evelyn Hutchinson, L.H.D.
Ernst Mahler, LL.D. [Trustee]
John Schoff Millis, LL.D.
William Beverly Murphy, LL.D.
Nathan Marsh Pusey, L.H.D. [President, Lawrence College, 1944-1953]
Oleda Schrottky, M.A. [Lawrence College Class of 1915]

1955
Paul Judson Braisted, L.H.D.
Joseph Harry Griffiths, M.A. [Lawrence College Class of 1918]
Elsie Esther Kopplin, M.A. [Lawrence College Class of 1915]
Arlie William Schorger, D.Sc.

1956
Fritz Machlup, LL.D.
Gerard Piel, D.Sc.
Carl Ransom Rogers, L.H.D.
Westbrook Steele, LL.D.
Robert S. Stevenson, LL.D.

1957
Hans Baron, L.H.D.
Norman Dello Joio, Mus.D.
James Cheney Kimberly, LL.D. [Trustee]
Guy Elmer McCorison, M.A. [Trustee]
Frederick Oliver Pinkham, LL.D.

1958
George W. Bailey, D.Sc.
Rene Wellek, L.H.D.
Norman W. Wilson, LL.D.
Charlotte Wollaeger, M.A. [Former Lawrence College Dean of Women]

1959
William E. Buchanan, M.A. [Trustee]
P. H. Glatfelter, LL.D.
Ben W. Heineman, LL.D.
Elmer H. Jennings, M.A. [Trustee]
Ernst H. Kantorowicz, L.H.D.
Caroline S. Peckham, M.A. [Lawrence College Class of 1915]
Lee C. Rasey, M.A. [Lawrence College Class of 1913]

1960
Albert L. Betz, M.A.
R. McAllister Lloyd, LL.D.
James R. Newman, LL.D.
Herman F. Smith, M.A. [Lawrence College Class of 1914]
Richard P. Wilbur, L.H.D.

1961
Robert H. Hamill, D.D.
James McCormack, LL.D.
Gilbert Stork, D.Sc.
John F. White, L.H.D. [Lawrence College Class of 1941]

1962
John W. Byrnes, LL.D.
Melville J. Herskovits, D.Sc.
Luis M. Penalver, D.Sc.
Harold H. Seaman, M.A.
Karl E. Stansbury, M.A. [Lawrence University Class of 1901]
Saul Steinberg, L.H.D.
Walter B. Wriston, LL.D.

1963
Bernard Bloch, L.H.D.
Clifford C. Nelson, LL.D.
Robert B. Newman, D.Sc.
Howard S. Thelin, M.A.
Casper E. Youngchild, LL.D.

1964
Maurice H. Arveson, D.Sc.
Donald S. Boynton, M.A.
Winifred C. Boynton, M.A.
Howard M. Dintzis, D.Sc.
Douglas M. Knight, L.H.D. [President, Lawrence College, 1954-1963]
Henry A. Murray, L.H.D.
Howard Nemerov, L.H.D.
Howard M. Packard, LL.D.

1965
S. Bradley Burson, D.Sc.
The Rev. J. Ellsworth Kalas, D.D.
Donold B. Lourie, LL.D.
W. Irving Osborne, Jr., LL.D.
Miller Upton, LL.D.

1966
The Hon. Gaylord Nelson, LL.D.
Chandler W. Rowe, D.Sc. [Former faculty]
John Stevens, M.A. [Trustee]

1967
Bernard S. Adams, LL.D.
Robert A. Alberty, D.Sc.
Bernard Bailyn, L.H.D.
Morris C. Dobrow, LL.D.
Stanley Learned, D.Eng.

1968
Robert Brustein, Litt.D.
Glenn Leggett, L.H.D.
Walter A. Netsch, D.F.A.
Blair Stewart, LL.D.

1969
Charlotte Russell Partridge, D.F.A.
James P. Shannon, D.C.L.
Theodore R. Sizer, D.Ped.

1970
Margaret Blakney Bradley, D.F.A.
Alice Miller Chester, L.H.D. [Trustee]

1971
Carl Kaysen, LL.D.
Robert Jay Lifton, D.Sc.
Al Momaday, D.F.A.
N. Scott Momaday, Litt.D.

1972
Paul C. Baldwin, D.Sc.
Donald Dawson, L.H.D. [Lawrence College Class of 1950]
Colleen Dewhurst, D.F.A. [Milwaukee-Downer Class of 1946]
Paul Joseph Jackson, D.F.A. [Lawrence College Class of 1949]
Thomas Paul Jenkin, LL.D. [Lawrence College Class of 1937]
Shigeto Tsuru, LL.D. [Lawrence College Class of 1935]

1973
Herbert Spiegelberg, L.H.D. [Former faculty]
Charles Treger, D.F.A.

1974
Catherine B. Cleary, LL.D. [Trustee]
Hanna Holborn Gray, L.H.D.
Eric Norman Stokes, D.F.A. [Lawrence College Class of 1952]
Curtis William Tarr, LL.D. [President, Lawrence University, 1963-1969]

1975
Michael Peter Hammond, L.H.D. [Lawrence College Class of 1954]
William Harrison Riker, L.H.D. [Former faculty]
Helvi Sipila, LL.D.
John G. Strange, D.Sc. [Lawrence College Class of 1932, trustee]

1976
Maya Angelou, Litt.D.
George Banta III, M.A. [Lawrence College Class of 1945, trustee]
David L. Luke III, LL.D.
Dr. Howard M. Temin, D.Sc.

1977
William H. McNeill, L.H.D.
William P. Raney, D.Sc. [Former faculty]
Barbara Wriston, Litt.D.

1978
William E. Buchanan, LL.D. [Trustee]
Joan Didion, Litt.D.
Ping-ti Ho, L.H.D.
John R. Kimberly, LL.D. [Trustee]

1979
Raymond H. Herzog, LL.D. [Lawrence College Class of 1938]
William R. Kellett, LL.D.
Jean Marie Kraft, D.F.A. [Lawrence College Class of 1948]
His Excellency Nani Ardeshar Palkhivala, LL.D.
Edward Osborne Wilson, D.Sc.

1980
Robert MacNeil, LL.D.
Thomas Stevenson Smith, LL.D. [President, Lawrence University, 1970-1980]
Michael Walzer, LL.D.
Richard D. Westenburg, D.F.A. [Lawrence College Class of 1954, trustee]

1981
John P. Frank, LL.D.
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin, Litt.D.
Eleanor Holmes Norton, LL.D.
Joan Argetsinger Steitz, D.Sc.
Thomas Arthur Steitz, D.Sc. [Lawrence College Class of 1962]

1982
Martha Henry, D.F.A.
Francis Hugh Ruddle, D.Sc.

1983
Warren Beck, Litt.D. [Professor Emeritus of English]
Mary Edmonds, D.Sc. [Milwaukee-Downer Class of 1943]
Andrew Knight, LL.D.
George H. Weyerhaeuser, LL.D.

1984
Natalie Zemon Davis, L.H.D.
Nenah E. Fry, LL.D. [Lawrence College Class of 1955]
David Campbell Mulford, LL.D. [Lawrence College Class of 1959, trustee]

1985
Ethel M. Barber, D.F.A. [Milwaukee-Downer Class of 1934]
Donald Ervin Knuth, D.Sc.
Michael C. J. Putnam, LL.D.

1986
Edwin Richard Bayley, LL.D. [Lawrence College Class of 1940]
John Wilson Lewis, LL.D.
Harry A. Posner, Jr., D.Sc.
Gus A. Zuehlke, LL.D.

1987
Dimitri Hadzi, D.F.A.
Sheila Evans Widnall, D.Sc.

1988
Joseph Charles Kennedy, L.H.D.
Thomas Dominic Nicholson, D.Sc.

1989 Dale Eldred, D.F.A.
Omar Shakespeare Pound, L.H.D.

1990
Václav Havel, LL.D.
Maynard Mack, L.H.D.
Patricia K. Ritter, LL.D.
Janos Starker, D.F.A.

1991
David S. Broder, LL.D.
Eugene M. Lang, LL.D.
Robert C. Marcellus, D.F.A.

1992
George F. Keane, LL.D.
Anne Hazard Richardson, LL.D.
Janet Dempsey Steiger, LL.D. [Lawrence College Class of 1961]

1993
James P. Comer, LL.D.
Ardis Krainik, D.F.A.
Takakazu Kuriyama, LL.D. [Attended Lawrence 1954-55, Scarff Professor 2000]

1994
Jacqueline K. Barton, D.Sc.
Dale L. Duesing, D.F.A. 1994 [Lawrence University Class of 1967]

1995
Gwendolyn Brooks, Litt.D.
Richard W. Dodson, D.Sc.
Miriam Schapiro, D.F.A.

1996
The Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr., L.H.D. [Scarff Professor 1995-96]
David Halberstam, Litt.D.
Lynn Martin, LL.D.
Robert A. Seiple, LL.D.

1997
Douglas J. Bennet, Jr., LL.D.
Charles Breunig, L.H.D. [Professor Emeritus of History]
Henry Louis Gates Jr., L.H.D. [Trustee]
H. Nicholas Muller III, L.H.D.
Sister Joel Reed, L.H.D.

1998 The Hon. Shirley S. Abrahamson, LL.D.
Simon Estes, D.F.A.
Richard Holbrooke, LL.D.
Henry M. R. E. Mayr-Harting, L.H.D.

1999
James H. Billington, L.H.D.
Heinz Fricke, D.F.A.
Alfred W. Lerdahl, D.F.A. [Lawrence University Class of 1965]
Joyce Carol Oates, Litt.D.
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Litt.D.

2000
Isabel Allende, Litt.D.
Shirley Emmons, D.F.A. [Lawrence College Class of 1944]
Lorrie Moore, Litt.D.

2001
Theodore L. Steck, D.Sc. [Lawrence College Class of 1960]
Lech Walesa, LL.D.
His Grace Bishop Kallistos Ware, L.H.D.
William Junius Wilson, L.H.D.

2002
Chen Yi, D.F.A.
Edward Hirsch, L.H.D.
Roy Lukes, D.Sc.

2003
Oscar C. Boldt, LL.D.
Patricia Hamar Boldt, LL.D. [Lawrence College Class of 1948]
Bruce H. Iglauer, D.Mus. [Lawrence University Class of 1969]
Edmund S. Morgan, L.H.D.

2004
John S. Carroll, LL.D.
William J. Cronon, L.H.D.
Jonathan F. Fanton, LL.D.
Stanley Fish, L.H.D.
Samantha Power, L.H.D

2005
John C. Harmon II, D.F.A. [Lawrence College Class of 1957]
Herbert V. Kohler, Jr., LL.D. [Trustee]
Richard Warch, L.H.D. [President of Lawrence University, 1979-2004]

2006
Richard Franke, L.H.D.
Catherine Tatge, D.F.A. [Lawrence University Class of 1972]