| YEAR |
NAME |
DEGREE |
 |
|
|
| 1868 |
Rev. Samuel Cornelius |
D.D. |
| |
Philip Hoedemaker (Holland, Europe) |
A.M. |
| |
A.G. Pierce (Mich.) |
A.M. |
|
|
|
| 1869/70 |
No honorary degree awarded |
|
|
|
|
| 1871 |
Rev. Alfred Owen (Detroit) |
D.D. |
|
|
|
| 1872/73 |
No honorary degree awarded |
|
|
|
|
| 1874 |
Rev. E. J. Fish (Adrian) |
D.D. |
| |
Prof. Edward Olney (Ann Arbor) |
L.D. |
|
|
|
| 1875 |
Rev. William T. Stott (President
of Franklin College, Franklin, IN) |
D.D. |
| |
Jeanette Fisher (Principal of Michigan Female
Seminary) |
A.M. |
|
|
|
| 1876/77 |
No honorary degree awarded |
|
|
|
|
| 1878 |
Prof. Joseph P. Vrooman (Michigan State
Normal School) |
M.A. |
|
|
|
| 1879 |
George Washington Northrup (D.D.) (Chicago) |
LL.D. |
|
|
|
| 1880/81 |
No honorary degree awarded |
|
|
|
|
| 1882 |
Rev. John Everett Clough (Angola, India) |
D.D. |
| |
George W. Greene, M.D. (Three Rivers) |
M.A. |
|
|
|
| 1883/84 |
No honorary degree awarded |
|
|
|
|
| 1885 |
Rev. George F. Hunting (Kalamazoo) |
D.D. |
| |
Rev. Asher E. Mather (Battle Creek) |
D.D. |
| |
Prof. Edward Olson (University of Chicago) |
Ph.D. |
| |
Prof. Lewis Stewart (University of Chicago) |
Ph.D. |
| |
August Loudeman |
M.A. |
|
|
|
| 1886 |
No honorary degree awarded |
|
|
|
|
| 1887 |
Rev. John S. Holmes (Adrian) |
D.D. |
|
|
|
| 1888 |
Julia A. King |
M.A. |
|
|
|
| 1889-1895 |
No honorary degree awarded |
|
|
|
|
| 1896 |
Rev. Lemuel Call Barnes (Pittsburgh) |
D.D. |
|
|
|
| 1897 |
Donald Drummond MacLaurin |
D.D. |
|
|
|
| 1898/99 |
No honorary degree awarded |
|
|
|
|
| 1900 |
William A. Moore |
LL.D. |
|
|
|
| 1901/02 |
No honorary degree awarded |
|
|
|
|
| 1903 |
William M. Upcraft |
D.D. |
|
|
|
| 1904 |
E.P. Tuller |
D.D. |
|
|
|
| 1905 |
No honorary degree awarded |
|
|
|
|
| 1906 |
Robert J. Burdette |
D.D. |
|
|
|
| 1907 |
No honorary degree awarded |
|
|
|
|
| 1908 |
Wooster Woodruff Beman |
LL.D. |
|
|
|
| 1909/10 |
No honorary degree awarded |
|
|
|
|
| 1911 |
Stillman George Jenks |
M.S. |
|
|
|
| 1912 |
Albert Lenox Vail |
D.D. |
| |
Dwight B. Waldo |
LL.D. |
|
|
|
| 1913/14 |
No honorary degree awarded |
|
|
|
|
| 1915 |
Shattuck Osgood Hartwell |
LL.D. |
| |
George Wheaton Taft |
D.D. |
|
|
|
| 1916 |
No honorary degree awarded |
|
|
|
|
| 1917 |
Caroline Bartlett Crane |
LL.D. |
| |
Hinton DeWitt Girdwood |
LL.D. |
| |
Elisha Moore Lake |
D.D. |
|
|
|
| 1918 |
David Triestram Magill |
D.D. |
| |
John Wellington Hoag |
D.D. |
|
|
|
| 1919 |
Clarke Benedict Williams |
D.S. |
|
|
|
| 1920 |
No honorary degree awarded |
|
|
|
|
| 1921 |
John E. Smith (K 1894) |
D.D. |
|
|
|
| 1922 |
Floyd I. Beckwith (K 1904) |
D.D. |
| |
Charles A. Deppe |
Sc.D. |
| |
James M. McGee (K 1905) |
D.D. |
|
|
|
| 1923 |
Merrill C. Hart (K 1913) |
Sc.D. |
| |
Charles M. Stuart (K 1880) |
D.H. |
|
|
|
| 1924 |
Albert E. Jenks (K 1896) |
Sc.D. |
| |
Ransom E. Olds |
Sc.D. |
| |
Mark F. Sanborn (K 1905) |
D.D. |
|
|
|
| 1925 |
Henry M. Bates |
LL.D. |
| |
William E. Praeger |
Sc.D. |
|
|
|
| 1926 |
James B. Fox (K 1896) |
D.D. |
| |
Daniel C. Holtom (K 1907) |
D.D. |
| |
John E. Walker (K 1907) |
LL.D. |
|
|
|
| 1927 |
John R. Effinger |
Litt.D. |
| |
Frank Kurz |
D.D. |
| |
William Lyon Phelps |
LL.D. |
|
|
|
| 1928 |
John E. West |
LL.D. |
|
|
|
| 1929 |
George E. Merrill |
Sc.D. |
|
|
|
| 1930 |
Maynard Owen Williams (K 1910) |
Litt.D. |
|
|
|
| 1931 |
James E. Napp (K 1908) |
D.D. |
| |
Alexander G. Ruthven |
Sc.D. |
|
|
|
| 1932 |
Coe S. Hane (K 1899) |
Litt.D. |
| |
Floyd C. Wilcox (K 1910) |
D.D. |
|
|
|
| 1933 |
Justin H. Bacon |
Litt.D. |
| |
Stella Fisher-Burgess (K 1905) |
Litt.D. |
| |
Hugh Chamberlin Burr |
D.D. |
| |
Leroy J. Buttolph (K 1913) |
Sc.D. |
| |
Oscar J. Campbell |
Litt.D. |
| |
Stewart B. Crandall (K 1903) |
D.D. |
| |
Vernor C. Finch (K 1908) |
Sc.D. |
| |
Ernest E. Ford (K 1897) |
D.D. |
| |
Paul W. Hayne (K 1897) |
D.D. |
| |
Allan Hoben |
LL.D. |
| |
Charles A. Kraus |
Sc.D. |
| |
Lemuel F. Smith |
Sc.D. |
|
|
|
| 1934 |
No honorary degree awarded |
|
|
|
|
| 1935 |
John W. Elliot |
D.D. |
| |
Lewis E. Martin (K 1888) |
D.D. |
| |
Leonard H. Stewart (K 1885) |
Sc.D. |
|
|
|
| 1936 |
Augustis W. Crane |
Sc.D. |
| |
Charles T. Goodsell |
LL.D. |
| |
Milton M. McGorrill |
D.D. |
|
|
|
| 1937 |
Frederick W. Heyl |
Sc.D. |
| |
J. Edgar Hoover |
Sc.D. |
|
|
|
| 1938 |
Claude V. Courter (K 1911) |
Ed.D. |
| |
Claude M. Harmon |
LL.D. |
| |
Wilbur Nelson (K 1901) |
D.D. |
|
|
|
| 1939 |
John C. Walker (K 1918) |
D.D. |
| |
T. Thomas Wylie |
D.D. |
|
|
|
| 1940 |
M. Forest Ashbrook |
D.D. |
|
|
|
| 1941 |
Enos DeWaters (K 1899) |
Sc.D. |
| |
Alfred G. Walton (K 1911) |
D.D. |
| |
Forbes Wiley (K 1906) |
Sc.D. |
|
|
|
| 1942 |
Charles S. Campbell |
LL.D. |
| |
Howard A. Vernon |
D.D. |
| |
Flora D. Roberts |
M.A. |
|
|
|
| 1943 |
Carl H. Chatters (K 1919) |
LL.D. |
| |
Homer Ferguson |
LL.D. |
| |
Milton Simpson |
Litt.D. |
| |
John K. Walsh |
M.A. |
|
|
|
| 1944 |
Donald R. Belcher (K 1909) |
LL.D. |
| |
J. Melvin Prior (K 1926) |
D.D. |
| |
Louis W. Sutherland |
LL.D. |
|
|
|
| 1945 |
J. Burton Bouwman (K 1916) |
D.D. |
| |
Harold W. Brown (K 1924) |
D.H. |
| |
Martha J. Gifford (K 1910) |
Sc.D. |
|
|
|
| 1946 |
Otis A. Earl |
LL.D. |
| |
Warren C. Johnson (K 1922) |
Sc.D. |
| |
Carl H. Norcross (K 1923) |
Sc.D. |
| |
C. Fulton Oursler |
Litt.D. |
|
|
|
| 1947 |
Trevor Arnett |
LL.D. |
| |
Lewis L. Dunnington |
D.D. |
|
|
|
| 1948 |
No honorary degree awarded |
|
|
|
|
| 1949 |
Dwight H. Rich (K 1919) |
LL.D. |
| |
George W. Stewart |
Sc.D. |
| |
Hillyer H. Straton |
D.D. |
|
|
|
| 1950 |
Charles K. Johnson (K 1932) |
D.D. |
|
|
|
| 1951 |
Dwight S. Large |
D.D. |
| |
Roy E. Larsen |
D.H. |
| |
Louis T. Thompson (K 1914) |
Sc.D. |
|
|
|
| 1952 |
Kenneth S. LaTourette |
D.H. |
|
|
|
| 1953 |
No honorary degree awarded |
|
|
|
|
| 1954 |
Franklin D. Elmer |
D.D. |
| |
George K. Ferguson (K 1913) |
LL.D. |
| |
Chester H. Loucks |
D.D. |
|
|
|
| 1955 |
Charles R. Bell, Jr. |
D.D. |
| |
Leland I. Doan |
LL.D. |
| |
Frederic Groetsema (K 1931) |
D.D. |
| |
William G. Pollard |
Sc.D. |
|
|
|
| 1956 |
Homer J. Armstrong |
D.D. |
| |
Samuel McCrea Cavert |
D.D. |
| |
Donald S. Gilmore |
LL.D. |
| |
Marston Bates |
Sc.D. |
|
|
|
| 1957 |
Richard Cummings |
D.D. |
| |
Herman J. Felber |
D.Mus. |
| |
Margaret Mead |
L.H.D. |
| |
Paul V. Sangren |
LL.D. |
| |
Helen White |
L.H.D. |
|
|
|
| 1958 |
Burton L. Baker (K 1933)
|
Sc.D. |
| |
Edwin T. Dahlberg |
D.D. |
| |
Harlan H. Hatcher |
LL.D. |
| |
Winthrop S. Hudson (K 1933) |
D.D. |
| |
Frederick O. Pinkham (K 1942) |
LL.D. |
| |
Leroy D. Stinebower (K 1926) |
LL.D. |
| |
Dee Tourtelotte (K 1925) |
Sc.D. |
|
|
|
| 1959 |
Waclaw Jedrzejewicz |
LL.D. |
| |
Benjamin E. Mays |
D.D. |
| |
Paul Woodring |
L.H.D. |
|
|
|
| 1960 |
Marston S. Balch (K 1923) |
L.H.D. |
| |
Samuel H. Miller |
D.D. |
| |
Willard Thorp |
L.H.D. |
|
|
|
| 1961 |
Gene E. Bartlett |
D.D. |
| |
Thurgood Marshall |
LL.D. |
| |
Wilbour E. Saunders |
L.H.D. |
| |
William P. Woodward (K 1918) |
D.D. |
|
|
|
| 1962 |
John D. Montgomery (K 1941) |
LL.D. |
| |
Albert C. Outler |
D.D. |
| |
Franz Josef Strauss |
LL.D. |
| |
Eugene S. Thomas |
LL.D. |
|
|
|
| 1963 |
Frances O. Clark (K 1928) |
D.Mus. |
| |
Lawrence M. Gould |
L.H.D. |
| |
Richard U. Light |
L.H.D. |
| |
Howard R. Moody |
D.D. |
|
|
|
| 1964 |
John Ciardi |
L.H.D. |
| |
George L. Collins |
D.D. |
| |
Clark M. Eichelberger |
LL.D. |
| |
Chris E. Lawson |
D.D. |
| |
Davidson Nicol |
Sc.D. |
|
|
|
| 1965 |
Aaron Copland |
D.Mus. |
| |
Willis F. Dunbar (K 1924) |
LL.D. |
| |
William T. Gossett |
LL.D. |
| |
William Muehl |
LL.D. |
| |
Henri Peyre |
L.H.D. |
|
|
|
| 1966 |
Theodosius Dobzhansky |
Sc.D. |
| |
Edouard Morot-Sir |
LL.D. |
| |
Edwin Spencer Parsons |
D.D. |
| |
Curtis W. Sabrosky (K 1931) |
Sc.D. |
|
|
|
| 1967 |
H. Gardner Ackley |
LL.D. |
| |
Loren C. Eiseley |
L.H.D. |
| |
John A. Hannah |
LL.D. |
| |
Foster Edward Mohrhardt |
LL.D. |
| |
Dean Peerman |
D.D. |
|
|
|
| 1968 |
Harvey G. Cox |
D.D. |
| |
Constantinos A. Doxiadis |
LL.D. |
| |
Milton Friedman |
LL.D. |
|
|
|
| 1969 |
John Hope Franklin |
LL.D. |
| |
Christopher S. Jencks |
LL.D. |
| |
Carlyle Marney |
D.D. |
|
|
|
| 1970 |
Robert K. Merton |
L.H.D. |
| |
John R. Silber |
L.H.D. |
| |
Laurence L. Spitters (K 1948) |
LL.D. |
|
|
|
| 1971 |
Rene J. Dubos |
L.H.D. |
| |
Gordon F. Kurtz (K 1948) |
D.D. |
| |
Wiliam F. Keucher |
D.D. |
| |
William D. Ruckelshaus |
LL.D. |
|
|
|
| 1972 |
David Easton |
LL.D. |
| |
Kenneth E. Boulding |
L.H.D. |
| |
Galway Kinnell |
L.H.D. |
| |
John E. Fetzer |
LL.D. |
| |
James W. Miller |
LL.D. |
|
|
|
| 1973 |
Maynard Mack |
Litt.D. |
| |
Pauline Kael |
L.H.D. |
| |
Donald Goodrich Little (K 1916) |
Sc.D. |
| |
John Wilson Porter |
L.H.D. |
|
|
|
| 1974 |
Albert Calhoun Pittman |
D.D. |
| |
Ralf Dahrendorf |
L.H.D. |
| |
Weimer Kerr Hicks |
LL.D. |
|
|
|
| 1975 |
O.B. Hardison, Jr. |
Litt.D. |
| |
Elliott M. Estes |
LL.D. |
| |
John E. Hines |
D.D. |
| |
Daniel L. Schorr |
L.H.D. |
|
|
|
| 1976 |
Lawrence A. Cremin |
L.H.D. |
| |
Linus C. Pauling |
Sc.D. |
| |
Stanley S. Kresge |
LL.D. |
|
|
|
| 1977 |
Germaine Bree |
D.H. |
| |
Dorothy Upjohn Dalton (K 1914) |
D.H. |
| |
Joseph Papp |
D.F.A. |
| |
George Warren Rickey |
D.F.A. |
|
|
|
| 1978 |
Ralph David Abernathy |
D.D. |
| |
Wigbert Holle |
L.H.D. |
| |
William G. Milliken |
LL.D. |
| |
Ray T. Parfet, Jr. |
L.H.D. |
| |
Elliot L. Richardson |
LL.D. |
|
|
|
| 1979 |
Landrum R. Bolling |
L.H.D. |
| |
William Sloane Coffin, Jr. |
D.D. |
| |
Jaqueline Anderson Mattfield |
L.H.D. |
| |
Robert McQueen Grant |
L.H.D. |
|
|
|
| 1980 |
Stanley Cavell |
L.H.D. |
| |
Norman Cousins |
L.H.D. |
| |
Robert McAffee Brown |
D.D. |
| |
Russell George Mawby |
LL.D. |
| |
Anna Dorothy Wylie |
L.H.D. |
|
|
|
| 1981 |
E. Mandell DeWindt |
LL.D. |
| |
Charles A. Pratt |
LL.D. |
| |
Paul Simon: U.S. Senator and Representative
from Illinois |
L.H.D. |
|
|
|
| 1982 |
Marshall D. Shulman |
L.H.D. |
| |
John Brademas |
LL.D. |
| |
William T. Creson |
LL.D. |
| |
Theodore M. Hesburgh |
L.H.D. |
|
|
|
| 1983 |
John Torben Bernhard: President of Western
Michigan University |
L.H.D. |
| |
Beverly Roberts Gaventa: Professor of New
Testament Literature and Exegesis at the Princeton Theological
Seminary |
D.D. |
| |
Amory Bloch Lovins: Director of Research
of Rocky Mountain Institute |
D.Sc. |
| |
Davidson Nicol (Sesquicentennial Citation):
Sierra Leonean diplomat, physician, medical researcher,
and writer |
|
| |
Harry Albert Towsley (K 1926): Pediatrician,
professor, and philanthropist |
D.Sc. |
|
|
|
| 1984 |
Genevieve U. Gilmore |
L.H.D. |
| |
Jitsuo Morikawa: Baptist minister |
D.D. |
| |
Joe Hinton Stroud: Editorial page editor
of the Detroit Free Press |
L.H.D. |
| |
George Wald: Biochemist and recipient of
the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
L.H.D. |
|
|
|
| 1985 |
Shirley Anita Chisholm: U.S. Representative
from New York |
L.H.D. |
| |
Marshall Theodore Meyer: Rabbi and religious
leader |
D.D. |
| |
Paul R. Halmos: Professor of Mathematics,
Indiana University |
L.H.D. |
|
|
|
| 1986 |
Kimpianga Mahaniah (K 1967): Professor at
the National Teaching Institute |
D.D. |
| |
E. Gifford Upjohn: Former CEO of Upjohn
Company |
LL.D. |
|
|
|
| 1987 |
Lawrence C. Hoff: Chairman of the National
Foundation for Infectious Diseases,
and the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education |
LL.D. |
| |
George Vail Pixley (K 1958): Professor of
Biblical Studies , Baptist Theological Seminary of Nicaragua
Seminario Teologico Bautista |
D.D. |
| |
Dennis Brutis: South African activist and
poet |
L.H.D. |
| |
Ronald Dworkin: Professor of Law and Philosophy
at NYU |
L.H.D. |
|
|
|
| 1988 |
David S. Broder: Political columnist |
L.H.D. |
| |
Hildegard Goss-Mayr: Honorary President,
International Fellowship of Reconciliaton |
D.D. |
| |
Ursula Leonhardt |
L.H.D. |
| |
Martha Craven Nussbaum: Research Advisor
at the World Institute for Development Economics Research |
L.H.D. |
|
|
|
| 1989 |
Robert Jewett: Professor of New Testament
Interpretation at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary |
D.D. |
| |
Jeremy Bernstein |
|
| |
Mark O. Hatfield: U.S. Senator from Oregon |
L.H.D. |
| |
Herbert H. Dow II: Vice President of Dow
Chemical Company |
L.H.D. |
| |
Wen Chao Chen: Professor of Political Science,
Kalamazoo College |
L.H.D. |
|
|
|
| 1990 |
Yehudi Menuhin: Violinist |
D.Mus. |
| |
Jon W. Fuller: Senior fellow at the National
Association of Independent Colleges and Universities |
L.H.D. |
| |
Andre Heinz |
L.H.D. |
| |
Margaret R. Miles: Professor of Historical
Theology at the Harvard University Divinity School |
D.D. |
| |
William A. Sederburg: Michigan Senator |
LL.D. |
| |
William J. Raspberry: Urban and minority
affairs columnist, |
L.H.D. |
|
|
|
| 1991 |
Wayne Booth: Professor of English, University
of Chicago |
L.H.D. |
| |
Theodore Cooper: Chairman and CEO of the
Upjohn company |
D.Sc. |
| |
Alfredo Ramon: Artist |
D.F.A. |
| |
Howard Wolpe: Former Presidential special
envoy to Africa's Great Lakes Region |
LL.D. |
| |
David Warren Brubeck: Jazz musician |
D.Mus. |
|
|
|
| 1992 |
Amy Gutmann: Professor of Politics at Princeton
University |
LL.D. |
| |
Maurie Golle |
L.H.D. |
| |
Arthur Ashe: Champion tennis player |
L.H.D. |
| |
Jose Vidal |
L.H.D. |
| |
Joseph L. Roberts, Jr.: Senior Pastor of
the Ebenezer Baptist Church |
D.D. |
| |
Johnetta Cole: Educator and President of
Spelman College |
L.H.D. |
|
|
|
| 1993 |
Nancy Rosenblum: Professor of Ethics in
Politics and Government, Harvard University |
L.H.D. |
| |
Yoshimi Takeda: Music Director of the Kalamazoo
Symphony Orchestra |
D.Mus. |
| |
Elizabeth S. Upjohn |
D.H. |
| |
Leland Lubbers |
L.H.D. |
|
|
|
| 1994 |
Michael Walzer: Professor in the School
of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton |
L.H.D. |
| |
Charles G. Adams: Pastor of Hartford Memorial
Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan |
D.D. |
|
|
|
| 1995 |
Hilary Putnam: Mathematician and philosopher |
L.H.D. |
| |
Martha G. Parfet: Chairwoman of Gilmore
Brothers, Inc. |
D.H. |
| |
Paul H. Todd,Jr.: U.S. Representative from
Michigan |
D.H. |
|
|
|
| 1996 |
Daniel Charles Maguire |
D.D. |
| |
Santiago Gangotena: Director of Universidad
de San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador |
D.Sc. |
|
|
|
| 1997 |
Richard Crawford: Professor of Musicology,
University of Michigan |
D.Mus. |
| |
Preston S. Parish |
L.H.D. |
|
|
|
| 1998 |
Louise Goss ’48 |
D. Mus. |
| |
Ulrich Littman |
L.H.D. |
|
|
|
| 1999 |
Dr. Martin E. Marty |
L.H.D. |
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| 2000 |
Clyde Wilcox |
L.H.D. |
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Dr. Kenneth G. Elzinga ’63 |
L.H.D. |
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Dr. Rafael Muatine Munavu |
L.H.D. |
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| 2001 |
Dr. Akira Iriye |
L.H.D. |
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Dr. W. Maxwell Cowan |
L.H.D. |
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Rev. Dr. Otha Gilyard |
L.H.D. |
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Mr. Robert L. Payton |
L.H.D. |
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| 2002 |
Dr. Mary Patterson McPherson |
L.H.D. |
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| 2003 |
Mr. John W. Brown |
L.H.D. |
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Dr. Judith Mbula Bahemuka |
L.H.D. |
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Mr. Gustav Meier |
D.Mus. |
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| 2004 |
Mr. Richard Ford |
L.H.D. |
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Mr. Ihsan H. Shurdom |
L.H.D. |
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Dr. James F. Jones, Jr. |
L.H.D. |
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| 2005 |
Dr. William H. Gass |
L.H.D. |
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Mr. Dale Chihuly |
D.F.A |
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| 2006 |
Dr. Ha Jin |
Litt. D |
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| 2007 |
Ms. Ann Patchett |
Litt. D |
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Dr. Grace Lee Boggs |
L.H.D. |
