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Alumnae Honorary Degrees by Class
Honorary Degrees given to Mount Holyoke alumnae after 1919
| Class |
Name |
Degree |
Year Received |
| 1858 |
Emily White Smith |
MA |
1925 |
| 1861 |
Emily S. Wilson |
Litt.D. |
1937 |
| 1870 |
Caroline A. Yale |
LL.D. |
1927 |
| 1871 |
Cornelia M. Clapp |
Sc.D. |
1921 |
| 1873 |
Henrietta E. Hooker |
Sc.D. |
1923 |
| 1879 |
Marion Gaylord Atwell |
Litt.D. |
1923 |
| 1883 |
Emily R. Bissell |
MA |
1825 |
| 1886 |
Harriett B. Prescott |
Litt.D. |
1936 |
| 1893 |
Amy F. Rowland |
MA |
1921 |
| 1896 |
Matilda Calder Thurston |
Litt.D. |
1925 |
| 1897 |
Olive Sawyer Hoyt |
Litt.D. |
1929 |
| 1898 |
Louise Baird Wallace |
Sc.D. |
1919 |
| 1900 |
Alice Browne Frame |
Litt.D. |
1925 |
| 1902 |
Frances Perkins |
MA/LL.D. |
1927 |
| 1902 |
Emma Perry Carr |
Sc.D. |
1952 |
| 1903 |
Miriam F. Carpenter |
Litt.D |
1933 |
| 1905 |
Harriett M. Allyn |
LL.D. |
1948 |
| 1905 |
Margaret Morse Nice |
Sc.D. |
1955 |
| 1909 |
Florence M. Read |
Litt.D. |
1929 |
| 1909 |
Jane L. Mesick |
Litt.D. |
1930 |
| 1910 |
Elizabeth M. Lee |
L.H.D. |
1972 |
| 1910 |
Ester L. Richards |
Sc.D. |
1926 |
| 1911 |
Frances Warner Hersey |
Litt.D. |
1937 |
| 1911 |
Mary Ely Lyman |
Litt.D. |
1937 |
| 1911 |
Katie Wilcox |
L.H.D. |
1961 |
| 1913 |
Edith M. Coon |
L.H.D. |
1930 |
| 1913 |
Mary Ashby cheek |
Sc.D. |
1937 |
| 1913 |
Margaret Tyler |
Sc.D. |
1937 |
| 1913 |
Marjorie Smith Terrell |
L.H.D. |
1961 |
| 1913 |
Grace A. Rotzel |
L.H.D |
1973 |
| 1914 |
Dorothy L. Blair |
Litt.D. |
1974 |
| 1915 |
Helen Vincent McLean |
Sc.D. |
1965 |
| 1915 |
Christianna Smith |
Sc.D. |
1975 |
| 1916 |
Yau Tsit Law |
Litt.D. |
1937 |
| 1917 |
Margaret E. Conrad |
Sc.D. |
1948 |
| 1917 |
Helen S. Mitchell |
Sc.D. |
1972 |
| 1918 |
Helen D. Bragdon |
LL.D. |
1951 |
| 1919 |
Beatrice Hyslop |
Litt.D. |
1959 |
| 1919 |
Eleanor D. Mason |
Sc.D. |
1951 |
| 1919 |
Anna Budd Ware |
L.H.D. |
1972 |
| 1920 |
Rachel F. Brown |
Sc.D. |
1972 |
| 1920 |
Katharine Butler |
Sc.D. |
1965 |
| 1920 |
Mary Eleanor Manchester |
LL.D. |
1975 |
| 1920 |
Mildred Trotter |
Sc.D. |
1960 |
| 1921 |
Mary Higley Mills |
M.A. |
1966 |
| 1922 |
Dorothy W. Gifford |
Sc.D. |
1957 |
| 1922 |
Margaret Judson |
Litt.D. |
1972 |
| 1922 |
Constance E. Hartt |
Sc.D. |
1972 |
| 1924 |
Helen Bennett Brown |
Sc.D. |
1974 |
| 1925 |
Roberta Swartz Chalmers |
Litt.D. |
1937 |
| 1925 |
Lucy W. Pickett |
Sc.D. |
1975 |
| 1925 |
Ida B. Sudder |
L.H.D. |
1986 |
| 1926 |
Helen Sawyer Hogg |
Sc.D. |
1958 |
| 1926 |
Ann Hatfield (Eleanor Adams Rothschild) |
D.F.A. |
1962 |
| 1926 |
Anna Mary Wells |
Litt.D. |
1967 |
| 1927 |
Dorothy Hewitt Hutchinson |
L.H.D. |
1977 |
| 1928 |
Alice Kimball Smith |
L.H.D. |
1972 |
| 1929 |
Virginia Apgar |
Sc.D. |
1965 |
| 1929 |
Marjorie Seaton Hooper |
L.H.D. |
1979 |
| 1931 |
Florence L. Anderson |
L.H.D. |
1972 |
| 1931 |
Barbara J. Betz |
Sc.D. |
1976 |
| 1931 |
Margaret Hastings |
Litt.D. |
1976 |
| 1931 |
Isabelle Steele Blish |
L.H.D. |
1981 |
| 1932 |
Virginia Mayo Fiske |
Sc.D. |
1977 |
| 1933 |
Virginia Hamilton Adair |
L.H.D. |
1999 |
| 1933 |
Lucile Tomlinson Wessman |
L.H.D. |
1973 |
| 1933 |
Margaret McElderry Lunt |
L.H.D. |
1978 |
| 1933 |
Ruth c. Lawson |
LL.D |
1983 |
| 1935 |
Marjorie Fiske Lowenthal |
Sc.D |
1976 |
| 1937 |
Miriam Camp Camps |
LL.D. |
1959 |
| 1937 |
Phoebe Baroody Stanton |
Litt.D. |
1971 |
| 1937 |
Mabel Murphy Smythe |
L.H.D. |
1977 |
| 1938 |
Helen Murphy Tepperman |
Sc.D. |
1991 |
| 1938 |
Barbara F. Palser |
Sc.D. |
1978 |
| 1938 |
Florence Schorske Wald |
L.H.D. |
1978 |
| 1938 |
Ruth Whittemore |
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| 1939 |
Jean Sudrann |
L.H.D. |
1989 |
| 1940 |
Ella Tambussi Grasso |
LL.D. |
1972 |
| 1940 |
Beryl Robichaud Collins |
Sc.D |
1980 |
| 1941 |
Pauline Tompkins |
LL.D. |
1957 |
| 1941 |
Barbara McClure White |
LL.D. |
1972 |
| 1941 |
Catherine Roraback |
LL.D. |
1981 |
| 1942 |
Elizabeth Storey Landis |
LL.D. |
1983 |
| 1942 |
Matilda Stewart McIntire |
Sc.D. |
1989 |
| 1943 |
Emily L. Wick |
Sc.D. |
1972 |
| 1943 |
Brij Kumari Paul Batra |
Sc.D. |
1986 |
| 1944 |
Hilda Chen Apuy |
L.H.D. |
2006 |
| 1946 |
Ruth Gill Van Cleve |
Ll.D. |
1976 |
| 1946 |
Siegried Achorn Centerwall |
L.H.D. |
1985 |
| 1946 |
Susan E. Gitt Gordon |
Sc.D. |
1995 |
| 1947 |
Janet Bator Young |
LL.D. |
1982 |
| 1948 |
Claude de Renty du Granrut |
LL.D. |
2002 |
| 1948 |
Vera Kistiakowsky |
Sc.D. |
1978 |
| 1948 |
Helen Padykula |
Sc.D. |
1984 |
| 1948 |
Jean E. Sammet |
Sc.D. |
1978 |
| 1948 |
Michiko Nishiura Weglyn |
Litt.D. |
1994 |
| 1950 |
Janet A. Emig |
L.H.D. |
1990 |
| 1950 |
Dorothy Rooke McCulloch |
L.H.D. |
2000 |
| 1950 |
Lilian Cramer Randall |
D.F.A. |
1998 |
| 1951 |
Jean McPherson Bennett |
Sc.D. |
1992 |
| 1951 |
Elizabeth Peters Tidball |
L.H.D. |
1976 |
| 1954 |
Nancy Woodward Hendrie |
Sc.D. |
2003 |
| 1954 |
Mary Luckett Murray |
L.H.D. |
1996 |
| 1956 |
Elizabeth Barrett-Connor |
Sc.D. |
1985 |
| 1957 |
Alice Stone Ilchman |
Ll.D. |
1982 |
| 1957 |
Frances Cooper Volkmann |
Sc.D. |
1987 |
| 1958 |
Gloria Johnson Powell |
Sc.D. |
1997 |
| 1958 |
Judith Voris Reppy |
LL.D. |
1986 |
| 1958 |
Harriet Levine Weissman |
L.H.D. |
2008 |
| 1959 |
Barbara Prentiss Hinckley |
LL.D. |
1984 |
| 1959 |
Nita Melnikoff Lowey |
LL.D. |
1994 |
| 1960 |
Marjorie Benedict Cohn |
D.F.A. |
1996 |
| 1960 |
Adele Mintz Dalsimer |
L.H.D. |
1995 |
| 1960 |
Catherine McArdle Kelleher |
Litt.D. |
1980 |
| 1960 |
Elizabeth Topham Kennan |
Litt.D. |
1995 |
| 1960 |
Frances Hall Miller |
L.H.D. |
1999 |
| 1961 |
Anne Merchant Boesgaard |
Sc.D. |
1981 |
| 1964 |
Marilyn Wong Fu |
D.F.A. |
1984 |
| 1964 |
Catherine Higgs Milton |
L.H.D. |
1992 |
| 1965 |
Margaret W. Conkey |
L.H.D. |
1996 |
| 1966 |
Dolores Hayden |
L.H.D. |
1987 |
| 1966 |
Jean E. Taylor |
Sc.D. |
2001 |
| 1967 |
Judith Kurland |
L.H.D. |
1993 |
| 1967 |
Nancy J. Vickers |
L.H.D. |
1999 |
| 1968 |
Barbara Wilson |
Sc.D. |
2005 |
| 1969 |
Helen W. Donovan |
Litt.D. |
1995 |
| 1969 |
Jane Famiano Garvey |
L.H.D. |
2003 |
| 1970 |
Lila M. Gierasch |
Sc.D. |
2002 |
| 1971 |
Wendy Wasserstein |
L.H.D. |
1990 |
| 1973 |
Glenda A. Hatchett |
LL.D. |
2000 |
| 1975 |
Susan D. Kare |
Sc.D. |
2001 |
| 1975 |
Gjertrud C. Schnackenberg |
LL.D. |
1985 |
| 1977 |
Debra Martin Chase |
D.A. |
2007 |
| 1978 |
Nancy Gustafson |
D.F.A. |
1998 |
| 1985 |
Suzan-Lori Parks |
D.A. |
2001 |
| 1989 |
Clare Waterman |
Sc.D. |
2009 |
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