Honorary Degrees by Year

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	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.