Each year during commencement exercises, the Colleges award honorary degrees to individuals who, by virtue of their dedication to the Colleges or through actions that mimic the values set forth by our founders, are true members of the Hobart and William Smith community.
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2008 |
Debra K. DeMeis |
2008 |
Charles H. Salisbury Jr. '63 |
2007 |
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2007 |
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2007 |
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2007 |
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2006 |
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2006 |
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2006 |
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2006 |
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2005 |
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2005 |
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2005 |
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2005 |
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2004 |
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2004 |
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2004 |
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2004 |
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2004 |
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2003 |
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2003 |
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2003 |
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2002 |
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2002 |
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2002 |
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2002 |
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2001 |
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2001 |
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2001 |
Gwen Ifill |
2000 |
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1999 |
Marvin Bram |
1999 |
Richard H. Hersh |
1998 |
Gloria Steinem |
1997 |
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1995 |
Hunter R. Rawlings III |
1994 |
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1994 |
Wangari Maathai |
1993 |
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1992 |
Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
1992 |
Charles Francis Smithers, Jr. '52 |
1992 |
John S. Witte |
1992 |
Kenji Tanaka |
1991 |
Carroll W. Brewster |
1991 |
Amory Houghton, Jr. |
1990 |
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1990 |
Eugene Francis Murphy |
1989 |
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1989 |
Matthew H. Clark |
1988 |
Edward Everett Griffith |
1987 |
Lindsay A. J. Lafford |
1987 |
G. Garth Fagan |
1987 |
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1987 |
Daisy Weeks Buchholz '12 |
1986 |
Mary McCormick Scott-Craig |
1986 |
Benjamin Peter Atkinson |
1985 |
Edward Johnson |
1985 |
Fred Rogers |
1984 |
Marian Wright Edelman |
1984 |
Kathryn Dapp Cook |
1983 |
William Sloane Coffin |
1983 |
Blandina Worcester Brewster |
1983 |
H. Merrill Roenke, Jr. '38 |
1982 |
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1982 |
Elie Wiesel |
1982 |
Anthony S. Bridwell '49 |
1982 |
Allan A. Kuusisto |
1981 |
Blyth Katharine Danner |
1981 |
Elizabeth Herendeen Odell '22 |
1980 |
Blanchard Bartlett Walker |
1980 |
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1980 |
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1979 |
Edgar Lawrence Doctorow |
1979 |
Marian Costello Witmer '32 |
1979 |
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1978 |
Rose Bampton |
1977 |
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1977 |
Brooks Otis |
1976 |
Helen Thorworth Williamson '49 |
1975 |
R. Buckminster Fuller |
1974 |
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1974 |
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
1973 |
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1972 |
Caroline W. Gannett |
1972 |
B.F. Skinner |
1970 |
Ewald B. Nyquist |
1970 |
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1969 |
Robert Arthur Bristol '31 |
1969 |
Frank Pye Smith '36 |
1968 |
James William Bampton '32 |
1967 |
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1967 |
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1967 |
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1967 |
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1967 |
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1967 |
Theodore Tellefsen Odell |
1966 |
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1966 |
Eda B. Hirshson |
1965 |
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1965 |
Nat King Cole |
1965 |
Lee Hastings Bristol, Jr. |
1963 |
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1962 |
Alexandra Lvovna Tolstoy |
1961 |
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1961 |
Louis M. Hirshson |
1961 |
Laura Richardson Houghton |
1960 |
Charles Francis Boynton |
1959 |
Walter Hetherington Durfee |
1959 |
Paul M. Herzog |
1958 |
Arthur Amory Houghton, Jr. |
1958 |
Warren Hunting Smith |
1958 |
Marjorie Merriweather Post May |
1957 |
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1956 |
Ella Russ McCann '35 |
1956 |
Horace N. Hubbs |
1955 |
Thomas Jean Hargrave |
1954 |
Princess of Romania Ileana |
1951 |
Ethel Cermak '34 |
1951 |
Belle Willard Roosevelt |
1947 |
Amory Houghton |
1947 |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
1947 |
Edward Peck Curtis |
1946 |
Marian Cruger Coffin |
1940 |
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1939 |
Thomas Mann |
1938 |
Milton Haight Turk |
1937 |
Murray Bartlett |
1937 |
Frank Ernest Gannett |
1935 |
Blanchard Howard Bartlett |
1933 |
Hobart Brown Upjohn |
1932 |
Cuthbert Winfred Pound |
1929 |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
1929 |
Alanson Bigelow Houghton |
1926 |
Charles Fiske |
1924 |
Benjamin Ficklin Finney |
1922 |
William Pitt Durfee |
1919 |
Charles Henry Brent |
1911 |
Andrew D. White |
1907 |
James Fullarton Muirheid |
1904 |
Charles Delamater Vail |