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Note: List is not comprehensive. Compiled by College Archives <\/strong><\/p>\n

* = Received honorary degree<\/a> that year.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
YEAR <\/strong><\/td>\n NAME AND TITLE <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1917<\/td>\nAndrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Ph.D.
Professor and Head of the Department of History, University of Chicago<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1922<\/td>\nThe Reverend James McGee, Class of 1905*<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1923<\/td>\nCharles Macauley Stuart, Class of 1880, D.D., LL.D., Litt.D.*
President, Garrett Biblical Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1924<\/td>\nAlbert Ernest Jenks, Class of 1896, Ph.D.*
Professor of Anthropology, University of Minnesota
Chairman, Division of Anthropology and Psychology, National Research Council<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1925<\/td>\nHenry Moore Bates, Ph.B., LL.D.*
Dean of the Law School, University of Michigan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1926<\/td>\nDaniel Clarence Holtom, A.B., B.D., Ph.D.*
Professor of Church History, Japan Baptist Theological Seminary, Tokyo, Japan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1927<\/td>\nWilliam Lyon Phelps, Ph.D., Litt.D.*
Lampson Professor of English Literature, Yale University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1928<\/td>\nArthur Holly Compton, Ph.D.
Professor of Physics, University of Chicago
Chairman, Committee on X-Rays and Radioactivity, National Research Council
Recipient of Nobel Prize in Physics, 1927<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1930<\/td>\nMaynard Owen Williams, Class of 1910, Ph.B.*
Foreign Staff Representative, National Geographic Society<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1931<\/td>\nAlexander G. Ruthven*
President, University of Michigan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1932<\/td>\nAllan Hoben, Ph.D., LL.D.
President, Kalamazoo College<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1933<\/td>\nWilliam Emilius Praeger, M.S., Sc.D.
Professor of Biology, Kalamazoo College<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1934<\/td>\nVernor Clifford Finch, Ph.D., Sc.D.
Head of Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1935<\/td>\nThe Reverend Albert W. Beaven, D.D., LL.D.
President, Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, Rochester, New York<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1936<\/td>\nAlbert Eustace Haydon, M.A., Ph.D.
Professor of Comparative Religion, University of Chicago<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1937<\/td>\nJohn Edgar Hoover, LL.D.*
Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department of Justice<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1938<\/td>\nDr. William F. Ogburn
Department of Sociology, University of Chicago<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1939<\/td>\nDr. Carl Frederick Wittke
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Oberlin College<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1940<\/td>\nDonald John Cowling
President, Carleton College<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1941<\/td>\nWilliam J. Cameron
The Ford Motor Company<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1942<\/td>\nGeorge Peel Gilmour
Chancellor, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1943<\/td>\nHomer Ferguson*
U.S. Senator (R-MI)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1944<\/td>\nDr. J. Hillis Miller
Associate Commissioner of Education, State of New York<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1945<\/td>\nGeorge W. Rosenlof, Ph.D., LL.D.
Executive Secretary, North Central Association<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1946<\/td>\nCharles Fulton Oursler*
Journalist and fiction writer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1947<\/td>\nRevered Edwin T. Dahlberg, D.D.
Pastor, First Baptist Church, Syracuse, New York<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1948<\/td>\nT. Russ Hill
President, Martin-Parry Corporation, Detroit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1949<\/td>\nDr. George Walter Stewart*
Professor of Physics, State University of Iowa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1950<\/td>\nCarl H. Chatters, Class of 1919
Director, American Municipal Association, Chicago<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1951<\/td>\nRoy E. Larsen*
President, Time Incorporated<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1952<\/td>\nKenneth Scott Latourette*
Professor of Missions and Oriental History, Yale University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1953<\/td>\nWilbour Eddy Saunders
President, Colgate-Rochester Divinity School<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1954<\/td>\nDonald R. Belcher
Assistant Director, Bureau of Federal Budget<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1955<\/td>\nWilliam G. Pollard*
Executive Director, Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1956<\/td>\nMarston Bates*
Professor of Zoology, University of Michigan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1957<\/td>\nMargaret Mead*
Associate Curator of Ethnology, American Museum of Natural Science<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1958<\/td>\nHarlan H. Hatcher*
President, University of Michigan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1959<\/td>\nPaul Woodring*
Consultant, The Fund for the Advancement of Education
Educational Advisor, The Ford Foundation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1960<\/td>\nWillard Thorp*
Professor and Chairman, Department of English, Princeton University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1961<\/td>\nThurgood Marshall*
Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1962<\/td>\nFranz Josef Strauss*
Minister of Defense, Federal Republic of Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1963<\/td>\nLaurence McKinley Gould*
President Emeritus, Carleton College<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1964<\/td>\nJohn Ciardi*
Poetry Editor, Saturday Review<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1965<\/td>\nWilliam T. Gossett*
Former Vice-President and General Counsel, Ford Motor Company<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1966<\/td>\nEdouard Morot-Sir*
Cultural Counselor, French Embassy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1967<\/td>\nH. Gardner Ackley*
Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1968<\/td>\nConstantinos A. Doxiadis*
President, Doxiadis Associates, Inc.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1969<\/td>\nJohn Hope Franklin*
Chairman of the Department of History, University of Chicago<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1970<\/td>\nRobert K. Merton*
Professor of Sociology, Columbia University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1971<\/td>\nWilliam D. Ruckelshaus*
Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1972<\/td>\nKenneth E. Boulding*
Professor of Economics, University of Colorado<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1973<\/td>\nPauline Kael*
Film Critic, The New Yorker<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1974<\/td>\nRalf Dahrendorf*
Commissioner of Education, Science, and Research of the European Communities
Director-designate of the London School of Economics and Political Science<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1975<\/td>\nDaniel L. Schorr*
CBS Commentator, “American Social Policy”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1976<\/td>\nLinus C. Pauling*
Director and Fellow, Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1977<\/td>\nJoseph Papp*
Producer-Director, Shakespeare Festival and Public Theatre<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1978<\/td>\nElliot L. Richardson*
Ambassador-at-Large<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1979<\/td>\nJacquelyn Anderson Mattfeld*
President, Barnard College<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1980<\/td>\nNorman Cousins*
Editor of Saturday Review, UN Peace Medal winner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1981<\/td>\nPaul Simon*
U.S. Congressman (D-IL)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1982<\/td>\nJohn Brademas*
President of New York University, Former US Representative (D-IN)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1983<\/td>\nDavidson Nicol*
First Principal of Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone (1960-1966) and Former UN Undersecretary-General<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1984<\/td>\nJoe H. Stroud*
Editor, Detroit Free Press<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1985<\/td>\nShirley A. Chisholm
Professor, Mount Holyoke College, Former US Congresswoman (D-NY)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1986<\/td>\nHenry Jones Fairlie*
Columnist, The New Republic and The Washington Post<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1987<\/td>\nDennis Brutus*
Chairman, Department of Black Community Education, Research, and Development, University of Pittsburgh<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1988<\/td>\nDavid S. Broder*
Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1989<\/td>\nMark O. Hatfield*
U.S. Senator (R-OR)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1990<\/td>\nWilliam J. Raspberry*
Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1991<\/td>\nHoward Wolpe*
U.S. Congressional Representative (D-MI)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1992<\/td>\nJohnnetta B. Cole*
President of Spelman College<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1993<\/td>\nLeland Eugene Lubbers, S.J.*
Jesuit Priest, Artist, and Founder of SCOLA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1994<\/td>\nBruce Benton, Class of 1964
Senior Country Officer, The World Bank<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1995<\/td>\nGail A. Raiman, Class of 1973
Director of Communications, American Textile Manufacturers Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1996<\/td>\nMyra C. Selby, Class of 1977
Indiana Supreme Court Justice<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1997<\/td>\nR. Moses Thompson, Class of 1970
President and Founder, Team Technologies, Inc.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998<\/td>\nGenna Rae McNeil, Class of 1969
Professor of History, University of North Carolina<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1999<\/td>\nMaureen Mickus, Class of 1981
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Michigan State University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000<\/td>\nJohn E. Sarno, Class of 1944
Professor, Clinical Rehabilitation Medicine, New York University School of Medicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2001<\/td>\nDr. W. Maxwell Cowan*
SCO, Howard Hughes Medical Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002<\/td>\nDr. Mary Patterson McPherson*
Vice President, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
President Emeritus, Bryn Mawr College<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003<\/td>\nnone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/td>\nRichard Ford*
Pulitzer prize-winning Journalist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/td>\nDr. William H. Gass*
Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Founder of International Writers Center, Washington University, St. Louis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/td>\nDr. Ha Jin*
Professor of English, Boston University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007<\/td>\nAnn Patchett*
Author<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008<\/td>\nAleksandar Hemon*
Author<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2009<\/td>\nChimamanda Adichie*
Author<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010<\/td>\nThe Honorable Carl M. Levin*
U.S. Senator, Michigan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/td>\nNoah Feldman*
Author<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012<\/td>\nDr. Linda Rae Murray*
President, American Public Health Association<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013<\/td>\nDr. Walter E. Massey*
President, School of the Art Institute of Chicago<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014<\/td>\nRay A. Suarez, Jr.*
Author and Journalist, Al Jazeera America<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>\nDavid Finkel*
Author<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>\nGay J. McDougall*
Member of UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination; Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice, Fordham University School of Law<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>\nKevin Lobo*
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Stryker Corporation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>\nDeborah Bial*
President and Founder, Posse Foundation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>\nKenneth G. Elzinga, Ph.D. \u201963
Robert C. Taylor Professor of Economics, University of Virginia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020<\/td>\nCharlotte Hall, M.A. \u201966*
Editor and Senior Vice President, the Orlando Sentinal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021<\/td>\nJulie Mehretu, M.F.A. \u201992*
Artist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022<\/td>\n\n

Bill Manns*
Bronson Healthcare President and Chief Executive Officer<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u00a02023\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Larry J. Bell \u201980*
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Founder of Bell\u2019s Brewery Inc.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a02024\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Tamea Evans \u201993, MD*
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Internal medicine physician \u00a0<\/p>\n

2025\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Jody Olsen*
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Former Peace Corps Director; Former professor; Author<\/p>\n

* = Received honorary degree<\/a> that year.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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