1952

Gregory Peter XV Cardinal Agagianian, LL.D.

(January 14, 1952)

James B. Connolly, Litt.D.

James M. O'Neill, 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 Lonergan, 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.Adm.

Joseph Cardinal Malula, LL.D.

Thomas Aquinas Murphy, The Ignatius Medal

(March 16, 1980)

Bernard J. O'Keefe, D.E.Sc.

Kevin H. White, LL.D.

1981

Thomas Cardinal O Fiaich, Litt.D.

(October 23, 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.

Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., The Ignatius Medal*

Joseph Harry Silverstein, D.A.

Paul Donovan Sullivan, D.S.S.

1982

Rev. Robert I. Burns, S.J., L.H.D.

George Bush. LL.D.*

Robert A. Charpie, D.Sc.

Dolores Hope, The Ignatius Medal

(November 6, 1982)

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 13, 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 17, 1985)

Andrew J. Young, LL.D.*

Edward Zigler, L.H.D.

1986

Corazon C. Aquino, The Ignatius Medal

(September 21, 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)

Raymond Edward Brown, S.S. The Ignatius Medal

(July 25, 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.

1994

Daniel P. Tully, The Ignatius Medal

(April 21, 1994)

James P. Comer, LL.D.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., D.B.A.

Frances Hesselbein, L.H.D.

Corinne Boggs Roberts, LL.D.*

Donald J. White, L.H.D.

1995
Rita Dove, L.H.D.
John Hume, LL.D.*
Teddy Kollek, LL.D.
Peter S. Lynch, LL.D.
Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III, L.H.D.

1996

Lawrence A. Bossidy, The President's Medal for Excellence

(April 18, 1996)

T. Berry Brazelton, LL.D.

William M. Bulger, LL.D.

William H. Cosby, L.H.D.

Marian L. Heard, D.Pub.Adm.

J. Donald Monan, S.J., LL.D.

Michael J. Mansfield, The Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. Award for Distinguished Citizenship

*Commencement Speakers
Source: President's Office
Date Posted: August 5, 1996
Boston College Fact Book 1996 - 1997 Home Page .