FB93 HONORARY DEGREES AWARDED BY BOSTON COLLEGE 1952-1993 Boston College Fact Book, 1992-93 ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ Authored By: Executive Vice President's Office Posted By: Fact Book Editor Contact Phone Number: (617) 552-3264 Contact E-Mail: factbook@bc.edu Date Posted: 9-22-93 ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ HONORARY DEGREES AWARDED by Boston College 1952-1993 1952 Gregory Peter XV Cardinal Agagianian, LL.D. (January 14, 1952) James B. Connolly, Litt.D. Fact Book Editor, LL.D. Most Rev. Thomas F. Markham, LL.D.* Rt. Rev. Thomas J. Riley, LL.D. James J. Ronan, LL.D. 1953 Dorothy L. Book, LL.D. Most Rev. James L. Connolly, LL.D. Clifford J. Laube, LL.D. Francis J. O'Halloran, A.M. Most Rev. Leonard J. Raymond, LL.D* Alex Ross, A.M. John C. H. Wu, LL.D. 1954 Edward H. Chamberlin, LL.D. John J. Hearne, LL.D.* James W. Manary, Sc.D. Thomas A. Printon, LL.D. Ven. Bro. William Sheehan, C.F.X., LL.D. Most Rev. Christopher J. Weldon, LL.D. Louis de Wohl, Litt. D. William J. O'Keefe, LL.D. (November 21, 1954) 1955 Fred J. Driscoll, LL.D. Christian A. Herter, LL.D. Edward A. Hogan, Jr., LL.D.* Rear Adm. Bartholomew W. Hogan, Sc.D. John B. Hynes, LL.D. His Beatitude Maximos IV, LL.D. (August 23, 1955) Valerian Cardinal Gracias, LL.D. Russel Kirk, Litt.D. Edward A. Sullivan, LL.D. 1956 Bartholomew A. Brickley, LL.D. Peter J. W. Debye, Sc.D. Most Rev. Frederick A. Donaghy, LL.D. John F. Kennedy, LL.D.* John W. King, LL.D. Charles Munch, D. Mus. Edward F. Williams, LL.D. 1957 Wallace E. Carroll, LL.D. Arthur J. Kelly, LL.D. Augustus C. Long, LL.D.* Adrian O'Keeffe, LL.D. Very Rev. Msgr. Patrick W. Skehan LL.D. Nils Y. Wessell, LL.D. 1958 Most Rev. Amleto G. Cicognani, LL.D. (April 21, 1958) Carl J. Gilbert, LL.D. Paul Horgan, Litt.D. Barnaby C. Keeney, LL.D.* Henry M. Leen, LL.D. Jacques Maritain, LL.D. Raissa Maritain, LL.D. Harold Marston Morse, D.Sc. Rev. John B. Sheerin, C.S.P., LL.D. Francis Cardinal Spellman, LL.D. (December 8, 1958) 1959 His Excellency Sean T. O'Kelly, LL.D. (March 22, 1959) Ernest Henderson, LL.D. Rev. John LaFarge, S.J., LL.D. Henry Cabot Lodge, LL.D. George Meany, LL.D. Carlos P. Romulo, LL.D.* Helen C. White, Litt.D. 1960 Marian Anderson, D.Mus. J. Peter Grace, LL.D. Caryl P. Haskins, LL.D. Robert F. Kennedy, LL.D. Charles Malik, LL.D.* Most Rev. Russell J. McVinney, LL.D. Samuel Eliot Morison, LL.D. Rt. Rev. Matthew P. Stapleton, LL.D. Rev. Henry M. Brock, S.J., D.Sc. (October 12, 1960) 1961 Allen W. Dulles, LL.D. Anthony Julian, LL.D. Robert D. Murphy, LL.D.* Louis R. Perini, LL.D. Abraham Ribicoff, LL.D. Rt. Rev. Robert J. Sennott, LL.D. Edward Teller, LL.D. 1962 Detlev W. Bronk, D.Sc.* Ralph J. Bunche, LL.D. Christopher J. Duncan, M.D., LL.D. Sir Alec Guinness, D.F.A. Rt. Rev. Francis J. Lally, Litt.D. Ralph Lowell, LL.D. Phyliss McGinley, Litt.D. Perry G. Miller, Litt.D. 1963 Augustin Cardinal Bea, S.J., J.U.D. (March 26, 1963) Rev. Edward B. Bunn, S.J., LL.D. (April 20, 1963) Lady Barbara Ward Jackson, Litt.D. (April 20, 1963) Nathan Marsh Pusey, L.H.D. (April 20, 1963) Bruce Catton, Litt.D. Anthony Joseph Celebrezze, LL.D.* Arthur Joseph Goldberg, LL.D. John Jay McCloy, LL.D. James Barrett Reston, LL.D. Rt. Rev. John Joseph Ryan, L.H.D. Jose Luis Sert, Litt.D. Joseph Leo Sweeney, LL.D. Robert Clifton Weaver, LL.D. James Edwin Webb, D.Sc. 1964 John Coleman Bennett, LL.D. Henri Maurice Peyre, LL.D. Most Rev. Ernest John Primeau, LL.D. Sidney R. Rabb, L.H.D. Paul Anthony Samuelson, LL.D. Rev. Joseph L. Shea, S.J., LL.D. Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr., LL.D.* Mary Sullivan Stanton, LL.D. 1965 John P. Birmingham, LL.D. Robert McAffee Brown, LL.D. J. N. Douglas Bush, Litt.D. Victor L. Butterfield, L.H.D. John T. Connor, LL.D. Edith Green, LL.D. Rev. John Courtney Murray, S.J., L.H.D.* Rt. Rev. Lawrence J. Riley, LL.D. Alan T. Waterman, D. Sc. 1966 Most Rev. John W. Comber, M.M., L.H.D. Edward F. Gilday, L.H.D. Edward M. Kennedy, LL.D. Francis Keppel, LL.D.* Mother Eleanor M. O'Byrne, R.S.C.J., LL.D. Stephen P. Mugar, LL.D. Abram L. Sachar, L.H.D. Rene Wellek, Litt.D. George Wells Beadle, D.Sc. (November 12, 1966) William Bosworth Castle, M.D., L.H.D. (November 12, 1966) Donald Frederick Hornig, LL.D. (November 12, 1966) James Alfred Van Allen, D.Sc. (November 12, 1966) 1967 Sarah Caldwell, Litt.D. Richard Palmer Chapman, LL.D. Very Rev. John Francis Fitzgerald, C.S.P., L.H.D. John Kenneth Galbraith, LL.D. John William Gardner, LL.D.* Everett Cherrington Hughes, LL.D. John Anthony Volpe, LL.D. 1968 Kingman Brewster, Jr., LL.D.* Rev. Henri de Lubac, S.J., L.H.D. Erwin N. Griswold, LL.D. Rita P. Kelleher, D.Sc. Most Rev. John J. McEleney, S.J., LL.D. Cornelius W. Owens, LL.D. James J. Shea, Sr., LL.D. Roger J. Traynor, LL.D. 1969 R. Buckminster Fuller, D.F.A.* Katharine Graham, D.Journ. Philip J. McNiff, L.H.D. Talcott Parsons, D.S.S. A. Philip Randolph, LL.D. Henry Lee Shattuck, D.C.S. Terence Cardinal Cooke, LL.D. 1970 James Edward Allen, Jr., D.Sc.Ed. Rt. Rev. John Melville Burgess, LL.D Joan Ganz Cooney, D.Sc.Ed. Sterling Dow, L.H.D, Hartford Nelson Gunn, Jr., L.H.D. Rev. Bernard Joseph Francis Longergan, S.J., Hist.Phil.D. Elliot Norton, L.H.D. Perry Townsend Rathbone, D.F.A. Earl Warren, D.Sc.L.* 1971 Walter Jackson Bate, H.D. Andrew Felton Brimmer, S.S.D. Rev. Msgr. George William Casey, Litt.D. Mircea Eliade, R.D. Eli Goldston, LL.D. Elma Lewis, D.F.A. Michael Joseph Mansfield, LL.D.* William James McGill, S.S.D. Most Rev. Humberto Sousa Medeiros, S.T.D. Walter George Muelder, D.Sc.T. Leverett Saltonstall, LL.D. 1972 Mary Ingraham Bunting, D.Sc. Arthur Fiedler, D.Mus. Northrop Frye, L.H.D. John James Griffin, D.C.S. Sir William Arthur Lewis, L.H.D. Louis Martin Lyons, D.Journ. Rev. John Anthony McCarthy, S.J. Litt.D. Hildegarde Elizabeth Peplau, D.N.S. Adlai Ewing Stevenson, III, LL.D.* Walter Edward Washington, LL.D. 1973 A.J. Antoon, L.H.D. Harold Bloom, L.H.D. Fred J. Borch, D.B.A. Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., LL.D. John George Kemeny, D.Sc.* Rev. Daniel Linehan, S.J., D.Sc. Thomas Philip O'Neill, Jr., LL.D. 1974 Soia Mentschikoff, LL.D.* Thomas L. Phillips, D.B.A. Carl Thomas Rowan, L.H.D. Thomas Paul Salmon, LL.D. Sir Ronald Syme, L.H.D. Henry Bradford Washburn, Jr., L.H.D. 1975 Melnea A. Cass, L.H.D. Silvio O. Conte, LL.D. John Thomas Dunlop, LL.D. Rev. Francis J. Gilday, S.J., L.H.D. Edward Lewis Hirsh, L.H.D. Paul Ricoeur, L.H.D.* Vincent Charles Ziegler, D.B.A. Bicentennial Convocation September 28, 1975 Thomas Joseph Galligan, Jr., D.B.A. Oscar Handlin, L.H.D. William J. Harrington, M.D., D.Sc. Edward Hirsh Levi, LL.D. Rev. Michael Patrick Walsh, S.J., L.H.D. Mary Lou Williams, D.A. 1976 Abram Thurlow Collier, D.B.A. John Hope Franklin, L.H.D. Rev. Martin Patrick Harney, S.J., H.D. Mildred Fay Jefferson, M.D., D.Sc. Asa Smallidge Knowles, D.Sc.Ed. Most Rev. Joseph Francis Maguire, LL.D. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, LL.D.* 1977 Rev. Raymond Edward Brown, Litt.D.* Gerhard D. Bleicken, LL.D. Alice Bourneuf, D.Sc. James F. McDonough, M.D., D.Sc. Maria Tallchief Paschen, D.A. Michael Joseph Walsh, Litt.D. 1978 Bruno Bettelheim, Litt.D. Rev. Charles F. Donovan, S.J., L.H.D. Charles D. Ferris, LL.D.* Marvin E. Frankel, LL.D. John William McDevitt, LL.D. Leo Perlis, D.S.S. 1979 Dorothy Baker, D.S.S. Edward Patrick Boland, LL.D. George P. Donaldson, LL.D. Richard Ellmann, L.H.D. Robben W. Fleming, L.H.D. Walter F. Mondale, LL.D.* David S. Nelson, LL.D.* 1980 Germaine Bree, Litt.D.* Albert M. Folkard, L.H.D. Edward J. King, D.Pub.Admn. Joseph Cardinal Malula, LL.D. Bernard J. O'Keefe, D.E.Sc. Kevin H. White, LL.D. 1981 Thomas Cardinal O Fiaich, Litt.D. (October, 1981) Rev. Joseph Delphis Gauthier, S.J., L.H.D. Margaret M. Heckler. LL.D. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, L.H.D. Donald F. McHenry, LL.D. Joseph Harry Silverstein, D.A. Paul Donovan Sullivan, D.S.S. Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., The Ignatius Medal* 1982 Rev. Robert I. Burns, S.J., L.H.D. George Bush. LL.D.* Robert A Charpie, D.Sc. Josephine L. Taylor, D.Sc.Ed. 1983 Maya Angelou, L.H.D. Virginia A. Henderson, D.N.S. Joseph McKenney, D.Ed. Rev. Vincent T. O'Keefe, S.J., L.H.D. (March, 1983) Rev. Bruce J. Ritter, O.F.M., D.S.S.* An Wang, LL.D. 1984 Leon Higginbotham, LL.D. Richard Hill, D.B.A. Most Rev. Bernard F. Law, S.T.D.* Robert Merrifield, D.Sc. Muriel Sutherland Snowden, D.S.S. Otto Phillip Snowden, D.S.S. 1985 Rev. Frederick Joseph Adelmann, S.J., L.H.D. Lena Frances Edwards, D.Sc. Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, LL.D. Agnes Mongan, D.F.A. Anthony John Francis O'Reilly, D.B.A. (March, 1985) Andrew J. Young, LL.D.* Edward Zigler, L.H.D. 1986 Corazon C. Aquino, The Ignatius Medal (September, 1986) Guido Calabresi, LL.D. Jacques d'Amboise, D.F.A. Annie Dillard, L.H.D. Lionel B. Richie. Jr. D.Mus. Francis C. Rooney, Jr., D.B.A. Jamie Cardinal Sin, S.T.D.* 1987 Josephine A. Dolan, D.N.S. Garret FitzGerald, LL.D. Walter E. Massey, D.Sc. John G. McElwee, LL.D. Rev. Francis W. Sweeney, S.J., L.H.D. Vernon A. Walters, LL.D.* 1988 His Grace, Samuel E. Carter, S.J., S.T.D.* Esme Valerie Eliot, Litt.D. Hans-Georg Gadamer, L.H.D. Robert Francis O'Malley, D.Sc. Richard Alan Smith, LL.D. Paul A. Volcker, LL.D. 1989 Thea Bowman, F.S.P.A., R.D. George E. Doty, The Ignatius Medal (April 6, 1989) Jonathan Kozol, D.S.S.* Thomas S. Murphy, LL.D. Kenneth Gilmore Ryder, D.Sc.Ed. Richard Francis Syron, LL.D. (March 18, 1989) Jerzy Turowicz, L.H.D. 1990 Edward A. Brennan, D.B.A. Thomas J. Brokaw, L.H.D.* Raymond G. Chambers, The Ignatius Medal (April 5, 1990) Franklyn G. Jenifer, LL.D. Rev. Cesar A. Jerez, S.J., L.H.D. Eunice Kennedy Shriver, L.H.D. Robert M. Solow, LL.D. 1991 William Aramony, The Ignatius Medal (April 18, 1991) John J. Curtin, Jr., LL.D. Rev. Timothy S. Healy, S.J., L.H.D.* Seamus J. Heaney, Litt.D. Rachel A. Robinson, D.Sc.Ed. John R. Smith, D.B.A. 1992 Barbara Bush, The Ignatius Medal (April 2, 1992) Mary Ann Glendon, LL.D. Roberto C. Goizueta, D.B.A. John E. Jacob, L.H.D. John J. Moakley, LL.D. Caroline C. Putnam, R.S.C.J., D.F.A. Warren B. Rudman, LL.D.* 1993 Jack Kemp, The Ignatius Medal (April 22, 1993) William J. Voute, The Ignatius Medal (April 22, 1993) Queen Noor of Jordan, LL.D.* James F. Cleary, D.B.A. Elias J. Corey, D.Sc. Henry E. Hampton, L.H.D. Therese Higgins, C.S.J., L.H.D. Thomas H. O'Connor, L.H.D. John T. Williams, D.Mus. *Commencement Speakers Source: President's Office