Honorary Degree Recipients

Keuka College awards degrees honoris causa to individuals who have made significant contributions to the College, a specific field, or to society in general. The honorary degree is the College’s highest honor.

Year	Recipient	Degree
1937	Dixon Ryan Fox	D.Litt.
1937	Harvey Foote Remington	LL.D.
1939	Edwin Dahlberg	D.D.
1939	Frank E. Gannett	D.Litt.
1939	Dorothy Kenyon	LL.D.
1940	Rev. J. Stanley Durkee	D.D.
1940	Mrs. Eva Smith Hamlin	D.Litt.
1940	Aubrey Williams	LL.D.
1941	Frank Clayton Ball	D.Sc.
1941	Charles A. Brind, Jr.	LL.D.
1941	J. Hillis Miller	D.Litt.
1941	John B. West, Elmira	D.Sc.
1941	Percy B. Wightman	D.D.
1942	Charles Spaulding Aldrich	LL.D.
1942	Constance Warren	D.Litt.
1943	Donald FaulknerConvention	LL.D.
1943	John Adams Lowe	D.Litt.
1943	Arhur Caswell Parker	D.H.L.
1943	Gerald Watkins	D.D.
1943	Herbert Daniel Winters	D.H.L.
1944	Bancroft Beatley	LL.D.
1944	Rev. Lee James Beynon	D.D.
1944	Captain William Wilcox Edel	D.H.L.
1944	Eugenia K. Spaulding	D.H.L.
1944	Anna Canada Swain	D.H.L.
1944	Effie Jane Taylor	D.H.L.
1945	Howard Hanson	D.Litt.
1945	Roland O. Hudson	D.D.
1946	Sarah Gibson Blanding	D.H.L.
1946	William F. Davison	D.D.
1946	Richard Harkness	LL.D.
1946	Stanley I. Stuber	D.D.
1947	Caroline Werner Gannett	D.H.L.
1947	Ralph W. Gwinn	LL.D.
1947	Shields T. Hardin	D.D.
1947	George Caleb Moo	D.Litt.
1947	Luther Wesley Smith	D.H.L.
1947	Mrs. Henry Alvah Strong	D.H.L.
1948	Hamilton Holt	D.H.L.
1948	Quentin T. Lightner	D.D.
1949	Georgianna Farr Sibley	D.H.L.
1949	Ordway Tead	LL.D.
1950	Bryan Frederick Archibald	D.D.
1950	Algo Donmyer Henderson	D.H.L.
1951	Charles Emerson Boddie	D.D.
1951	Lester R. Loomis	D.D.
1951	Lucile Petry	D.H.L.
1952	Edward Roe Eastman	D.Litt.
1952	Dorothy Fosdick	LL.D.
1952	Marian Shaffner Morse	D.H.L.
1952	Ellroy D. Van Dyke	D.D.
1952	R. Donald Williamson	D.D.
1953	Althea Kratz Hottel	D.H.L.
1953	Gustav A. Lehman	D.Mus.
1953	Raymond F. McLain	D.D.
1954	Leonard W. Brockington	D.Litt.
1954	Barbara Price Griggs	D.H.L.
1954	Louise Robinson	LL.D.
1955	Kenneth Irving Brown	D.H.L.
1955	Reverend Marlin D. Farnum	D.D.
1955	Mary Breckenridge	D.H.L.
1955	Florence H. Stewart	D.H.L.
1956	Murray Alexander Cayley	D.D.
1956	George W. Goddard	LL.D.
1956	Ellis Laurimore Phillips, Jr.	LL.D.
1956	Hazel Shank	D.H.L.
1957	Milton Carl Froyd	LL.D.
1957	Hugh Victor Kane	D.D.
1957	Margaret Chase Smith	D.H.L.
1958	Grant Frederic Anderson	D.D.
1958	L. Corrin Strong	D.H.L.
1959	Katherine Gillette Blyley	D.Litt.
1959	Mark A. May	D.H.L.
1959	Kathryn Sisson Phillips	D.H.L.
1959	Wilbour Eddy Saunders	D.Litt.
1959	Howard C. Seymour	D.Litt.
1959	Marjorie S. Terrell	D.H.L.
1959	Jessica McCullough Weis	LL.D.
1959	Dorthea Eleanor Woods	D.H.L.
1959	Robert Newell Zearfoss	D.D.
1960	Katherine R. Boucot	D.H.L.
1960	Bernice Brown Cronkhite	D.Litt.
1960	Charles Orlando Harding	D.D.
1960	Harmon Robert Holcomb, Jr.	LL.D.
1960	Albert Wilson Sheckells	D.D.
1961	Margaret Bridgman	D.H.L.
1961	Kyle Haselden	LL.D.
1961	Eric Larrabee	LL.D.
1961	Constance Denise Sherman	D.Litt.
1962	Betty Carnes	D.H.L.
1962	Elbert E. Gates, Jr.	D.H.L.
1962	Benjamin E. Mays	D.H.L.
1962	Bonaro Wilkinson Overstreet	D.H.L.
1962	William Grosvenor Pollard	D.H.L.
1962	John Taber	LL.D.
1963	Leona Baumgartner	D.H.L.
1963	Martin Luther King, Jr.	D.Litt.
1963	Edith Mary Lerrigo	D.H.L.
1963	Lisa Sergio	D.H.L.
1963	William Ralph Ward, Jr.	D.H.L.
1964	Theodore F. Adams	LL.D.
1964	Marcia Davenport	D.Litt.
1964	Mabel Benjamin Martin	D.H.L.
1964	Viola A. Titus	D.H.L.
1965	Lee James Beynon, Jr.	D.D.
1965	Edith Green	LL.D.
1965	Christian B. Jensen	D.D.
1965	Iva Gorton Sprague	D.H.L.
1966	Arlene Francis	D.H.L.
1966	John Burns Ketcham	D.D.
1966	David Alexander MacLennan	D.Litt.
1966	Mrs. J. Willard McCrossen	D.H.L.
1966	Kenneth Arthur Roadarmel	D.D.
1966	John Hanford VanGorden	D.H.L.
1967	Margaret Habein Merry	D.Litt.
1967	George Adelbert Newbury	LL.D.
1967	Roy Hampton Park	D.H.L.
1967	Jaroslav Jan Pelikan	LL.D.
1967	Willa Beatrice Player	D.H.L.
1968	Eugene E. Dawson	D.Litt.
1968	Edward D. Eddy	D.H.L.
1968	Helen B. Power	D.H.L.
1968	Sidney G. Tickton	LL.D.
1969	R. H. Edwin Espy	D.Litt.
1969	Pauline Frederick	D.Litt.
1969	Robert W. Holley	D.Litt.
1969	Joseph W. McGovern	LL.D.
1970	Lucretia Davis Jephson	D.H.L.
1970	Coretta Scott King	D.H.L.
1970	Michael Novak	D.Litt.
1970	Ralph W. Seager	D.Litt.
1971	Mark Odom Hatfield	LL.D.
1971	Russell Jackson Hawke	D.D.
1971	Elizabeth Duncan Koontz	D.H.L.
1971	Edward Allen Mooers	D.H.L.
1972	Sophie G. Divers	D.H.L.
1972	Donald A. Gaudion	D.H.L.
1972	Martha Wright Griffiths	D.Litt.
1972	Martin E. Marty	LL.D.
1973	Woodrow W. Hasty	D.D.
1973	Jean Elizabeth Lowrie	D.Litt.
1973	Bess Myerson	LL.D.
1973	James Hastings Nichols	D.Litt.
1974	Norman R. DePuy	D.Litt.
1974	Alice L. Foley	D.H.L.
1974	Barbara C. Jordan	D.H.L.
1975	Constance E. Cook	D.H.L.
1975	Douglas G. Anderson	D.Sc.
1975	Earl J. McGrath	D.H.L.
1975	Lois H. Stair	D.H.L.
1976	Clarence H. Brisco	D.H.L.
1976	Carl F. Burke	LL.D.
1976	Joel H. Carroll	D.H.L.
1976	Elizabeth Kubler-Ross	Dped
1977	Andrew C. Davison	D.D.
1977	Mary Anne Krupsak	D.H.L.
1977	Emil Muller	LL.D.
1977	Esther Gosnell Saunders	D.H.L.
1978	Dorothy Hall Fish	D.H.L.
1978	Lucy Fox	D.H.L.
1978	Joseph H. Yeakel	S.T.D.
1979	Ann E. Prentice	D.Litt.
1979	Gail Anderson Ricciuti	D.D.
1980	Ayako Hino	D.H.L.
1980	Shirley M. Jones	D.H.L.
1980	Gary A. Lee	LL.D.
1981	Evelyn Jane W. Davis	LL.D.
1981	Edmund F. Ball	D.H.L.
1981	Dermod Ives	LL.D.
1981	Sally Gannett McAdam	D.H.L.
1982	David Bellin	D.H.L.
1982	Eleanor Judd Wilkes	D.H.L.
1983	Virginia Corsi	D.H.L.
1983	Eric J. Stettner	D.H.L.
1984	Lorraine K. Potter	D.H.L.
1984	Gail Shaffer	LL.D.
1985	Reverend James C. Miller	D.H.L.
1985	Marlene Sanders	D.H.L.
1986	Judy Woodruff	D.H.L.
1987	Janet Holmgren Harrington	D.H.L.
1987	Laura Richardson Houghton	D.H.L.
1988	Glenn W. Judd	D.H.L.
1988	Pearl W. Rubin	D.H.L.
1988	J. Stanley Parkin	D.H.L.
1989	Willis F. Harrington, Jr.	D.H.L.
1989	Edna Buckley Oaks	D.H.L.
1989	Alfred O. Ginkel	D.H.L.
1990	Kay R. Whitmore	D.H.L.
1990	Robert A. Winters	D.H.L.
1990	William A. Johnson	D.H.L.
1991	Reverend Jane Bennett Brown	D.H.L.
1992	Frank H. Hamlin	D.H.L.
1992	Beverly Davison	D.H.L.
1993	Edith Estey	D.H.L.
1993	Reverend Dr. James A. Forbes	D.H.L.
1993	Dr. Isaiah Jackson	D.H.L.
1994	Virginia B. Ball	D.H.L.
1994	Robert L. Lowenthal	D.H.L.
1995	Barbara L. Lewis	D.H.L.
1996	Nancy Jane Woodhull	D.H.L.
1996	Elaine P. Wilson	D.H.L.
1996	Dr. Samuel Dewitt Proctor	D.H.L.
1997	Arthur F. Kirk, Jr., Ed.D	D.H.L.
1997	Ralph Streeter Wilkes	D.H.L.
1998	Frank Bracken	D.H.L.
1998	Alma Hart Fewster	D.H.L.
1998	Isaac A. Morris	D.H.L.
1999	Nydia Ananenko Kuck	D.H.L.
1999	Franz Theodore Stone	D.H.L.
2000	John J. Pruis	D.H.L.
2000	Angeline Z. Pruis	D.H.L.
2001	John R. Kuhl, Jr.	D.H.L.
2001	Florence M. Muller	D.H.L.
2002	J. Michael Smith	D.H.L.
2002	Theodore W. Griesinger	D.H.L.
2003	Rev. James V. Davison	D.H.L.
2003	Mabel G. Harkness	D.H.L.
2003	Arthur P. Keller, Jr.	D.H.L.
2003	Marva Davis Mapp	D.H.L.
2004	Carl W. Fribolin	D.H.L.
2004	Wayne W. Wagner	D.H.L.
2004	Robert E. Smets	D.H.L.
2004	Michael T.C. Hwang	D.H.L.
2004	Chau Chak-wing	D.H.L.
2004	Jiande Gu	D.H.L.
2004	Liu Shaohuai	D.H.L.
2004	Baozhong Zhu	D.H.L.
2004	Yinglu Wu	D.H.L.
2005	Calvin J. Haller	D.H.L.
2005	Norman E. Joslin	D.H.L.
2005	Frank P. Strong, Jr.	D.H.L.
2006	Richard Rosett	D.H.L.
2006	Chen Fusheng	D.H.L.
2007	Yankel Ginzburg	D.H.L.
2007	Zhang Xiangzhong	D.H.L.
2008	Floyd F. Amann	D.H.L.
2008	Wanda Polisseni	D.H.L.
2008	Marjory Corwin	D.H.L.
2009	Walt Scott	D.H.L.
2009	Julia Lobotsky	D.H.L.
2009	Charles Mendies	D.H.L.
2009	Marcia Dugan	D.H.L.
2009	Barbara Risser	D.H.L.
2010	Betti Brown ’70	D.H.L.
2010	Debbie L. Sydow	D.H.L.
2010	Janet Mance	D.H.L.
2011	Peter Pace	D.H.L.
2011	Marion Cutler	D.H.L.
2011	George Slocum	D.H.L.

D.Sc. = Doctor of Science
DMUS = Doctor of Music
DPED = Doctor of Pedagogy
STD = Doctor of Sacred Theology
D.H.L. = Doctor of Humane Letters
D.Litt. = Doctor of Letters
LL.D. = Doctor of Law
D.D. = Doctor of Divinity

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Honorary Degree Recipients