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| Year | Date | Speaker | Honorary Degrees | Distinguished Service Awards | Great Teacher Award | Teaching Excellence Award |
| 1958 | June 15 | |||||
| 1958 | August 8 | |||||
| 1959 | June 17 | |||||
| 1959 | August 14 | |||||
| 1960 | June 14 | Governor William G. Stratton | ||||
| 1960 | August 12 | |||||
| 1961 | June 15 | Harold Taylor | ||||
| 1961 | August 11 | |||||
| 1962 | June 14 | John W. Schwada | ||||
| 1962 | August 10 | |||||
| 1963 | June 14 | Robert Clifton Weaver | Robert Clifton Weaver Doctor of Laws | |||
| 1963 | August 9 | |||||
| 1964 | June 11 | Rexford Guy Tugwell | ||||
| 1964 | August 7 | |||||
| 1965 | June 17 | Harold B. Gores | ||||
| 1965 | August 28 | Howard Dene Southwood | ||||
| 1966 | June 11 | Delyte Wesley Morris | ||||
| 1966 | September 3 | Leonard Van Camp | ||||
| 1967 | June 9 | Harold R.W. Benjamin | ||||
| 1967 | September 1 | Stanley B. Kimball | Congressman Melvin Price | |||
| 1968 | June 8 | Harold Boeschenstein | ||||
| 1968 | August 31 | Daniel F. Havens | Arnold Harold Maremont Doctor of Laws | Arthur C. Boeker | ||
| 1969 | June 10 | Former Senator Paul H. Douglas | Former Senator Paul H. Douglas Doctor of Laws | Thomas F. Williams | ||
| Walter Susskind Doctor of Humanities | ||||||
| 1969 | August 29 | George R. Mace | Katherine Dunham Robert H. Levis, II | |||
| 1970 | June 13 | R. Buckminster Fuller | Jennie L. Kaeser Doctor of Literature | Henry D. Karandjeff | ||
| 1970 | September 4 | Patrick Riddleberger | Gwendolyn Brooks Doctor of Literature | Robert B. Lynn | ||
| 1971 | June 11 | Peter Muirhead | David Harold Blackwell Doctor of Science | Ernest E. Tosovosky, Sr. | ||
| 1971 | September 3 | Gertrude Marti | Mary Kelly Mullane Doctor of Science | Suzanne Wicks | ||
| 1972 | June 10 | Senator Charles H. Percy | James Daniel Collins Doctor of Literature | Mary Chenault Hershey | ||
| 1972 | September 2 | G. William Linden | George Peter Murdock Doctor of Science | Lola Becker Reed | ||
| 1973 | June 9 | John S. Rendelman | Delyte Wesley Morris Doctor of Humane Letters | Christopher Columbus Jones | ||
| 1973 | August 31 | Carol A. Keene | William Henry Danforth, Doctor of Science | |||
| Paul Clare Reinert, Doctor of Letters | ||||||
| 1974 | June 8 | Marshall Flaum | Marshall Flaum Doctor of Fine Arts | Albert Cassens | Marilyn L. Livingston John L. Oldani | Nancy R. Parker (sr.) Leonard Van Camp (sr.) Wayne David Santoni (jr.) Paul H. Phillips (jr.) Stephen M. Brown (jr.) Galen K. Pletcher (jr.) Susan M.W. Nall (jr.) |
| Melvin C. Lockard Doctor of Laws | ||||||
| 1974 | August 29 | Carl D. Tubbesing | Herbert Blumer Doctor of Science | |||
| 1975 | June 13 | John S. Rendleman | Clarence W. Stephens Doctor of Humane Letters | Dorothy E. Tulloss | David E. Ault (sr.) Wilbur C. McAfee (sr.) Robert Anderson (jr.) | |
| 1975 | August 28 | Edwin E. Dale | ||||
| 1976 | June 11 | Andrew J. Kochman | John S. Rendleman Doctor of Humane Letters | Billy John Rogers Dickie A. Spurgeon | John L. Oldani (sr.) Joseph A. Munshaw (jr.) | |
| 1976 | September 2 | Robert S. Hoeke | Benny Goodman Doctor of Music | |||
| 1977 | June 10 | Kenneth A. Shaw | Harold Robert Fisher | Robert A. Williams | Ann L. Carey (sr.) Douglas J. Eder (jr.) Patricia A. Goehe (jr.) | |
| Jess A. Wilson | ||||||
| 1977 | September 1 | Kenneth A. Shaw | Henriette D. Avram Doctor of Science | Anne Zimmerman | ||
| 1978 | June 9 | Kenneth A. Shaw | President Leopold Sedar Senghor Doctor of Humane Letters | Russell C. Solomon | Wayne D. Santoni | Anthony C. Wilbraham (sr.) Paul Goldenbaum (jr.) |
| Peter Ferdinand Drucker Doctor of Economics and Business Management | David W. Shaw | |||||
| 1979 | June 8 | Kenneth A. Shaw | R. Buckminster Fuller Doctor of Humane Letters | C. Kenneth Anderson | Arthur E. Prell | Richard R. Boedecker (sr.) Michael E. Landis (jr.) |
| Charles Guenther Doctor of Humane Letters | Karl L. Monroe | |||||
| 1980 | June 6 | Earl Lazerson | John Francis McDermott Doctor of Humane Letters | Olin W. Stratton | Donald T. King | Noble R. Thompson (sr.) Paul R. Tarpey (jr.) |
| J. Faye Wham | ||||||
| Imogene M. King Doctor of Humane Letters | John Page Wham | |||||
| 1981 | June 12 | James M. Furman | James M. Furman Doctor of Education | George M. Irwin | Patrick Riddleberger | David F. Schwartz (sr.) Wayne D. Santoni (sr.) Dennis D. Staley (jr.) |
| Grace Murray Hopper Doctor of Science | ||||||
| 1982 | June 11 | John I. Goodlad | John I. Goodlad Doctor of Humane Letters | Carl H. Basler | Betty Tyree Osiek | Lyman S. Holden (sr.) Shirley Carlson (jr.) |
| John D. Randall Doctor of Humane Letters | Jack A. Simon | |||||
| 1983 | June 10 | Peter H. Raven | Katherine Dunham Doctor of Fine Arts | Robert Hyland | David F. Schwartz | Henry D. Drew Chung-wu Ho |
| Carolyn W. Losos | ||||||
| Carl E. Mathias | ||||||
| Peter H. Raven Doctor of Science | Wilber R.L. Trimpe | |||||
| 1984 | June 8 | Walter Jackson Ong | Walter Jackson Ong Doctor of Humane Letters | George A. Killenberg | William G. Ward | Douglas J. Eder Norma L. Pinnell |
| Martha R. O'Malley | ||||||
| G. Duncan Bauman | ||||||
| 1985 | June 8 | Earl Lazerson | Vincenzo Buonocore Doctor of Humane Letters | Joyce L. Armstrong | W. Deane Wiley | |
| Josephine Marley Beckwith | ||||||
| Malcolm W. Martin | ||||||
| Gordon F. Moore | ||||||
| M. Kathleen Quinn | ||||||
| 1986 | June 14 | Earl Lazerson | Ernest L. Boyer Doctor of Humane Letters | Bryon L. Farrell | Larry N. Moehn | |
| Robert A. Weis | ||||||
| 1987 | June 13 | Earl Lazerson | Robert McCormick Adams Doctor of Humane Letters | Melvin L. Fowler | Vasil Vasileff | |
| Robert G. Hardy | ||||||
| Donald R. McBride | ||||||
| 1988 | June 11 | Earl Lazerson | Kenneth B. Clark Doctor of Humane Letters | Ralph Korte | William Slattery | Sheila S. Ruth |
| 1989 | June 10 | Earl Lazerson | Harlan Cleveland Doctor of Humane Letters | Edward E. Hightower | Martha J. Welch | Emily J. Krohn Theresa R. Love |
| Charles B. Meness | ||||||
| 1990 | June 9 | Earl Lazerson | James R. Thompson Doctor of Humane Letters | Robert G. Gibson | Regan Carpenter | James R. McClure |
| John Edward Jacob Doctor of Humane Letters | Ronald L. Thompson | |||||
| 1991 | June 8 | Earl Lazerson | Ruth Hubbard Doctor of Humane Letters | Robert Shannon | Paul H. Phillips | Betty Richardson |
| 1992 | June 13 | Earl Lazerson | Gene Allsup | Paul Phillips | ||
| Lynn Ward | ||||||
| Edward Hightower | ||||||
| David M. Oates | ||||||
| John Oeltjen | ||||||
| 1993 | June 12 | William Julius Wilson | William Julius Wilson Doctor of Humane Letters | Helen Delicate | Pat Goehe | Don McCabe |
| Edward M. Schroeder | ||||||
| Hulas King | ||||||
| Ralph Korte | Louis E. Tiemann | |||||
| 1994 | May 7 | Nancy Belck | John Kendall | Leonard Van Camp | Rahim Karimpour | |
| Ann Beatty | ||||||
| Larry Walker | ||||||
| Mitch Meyers | ||||||
| 1995 | May 6 | Barbara Ann Teer | Barbara Ann Teer Doctor of Humane Letters | Gary Berkley | Randall Smith | Wayne Santoni |
| Paul E. Riley | ||||||
| 1995 | August 5 | Peter Maer | ||||
| 1995 | December 16 | Don Baden | ||||
| 1996 | May 4 | Senator Paul Simon | Senator Paul Simon Doctor of Humane Letters | Nader Saniei | ||
| 1996 | August 3 | Clinton R. Van Zandt | Kyong Park Doctor of Science | Noble Thompson | ||
| 1996 | December 14 | Gilbert Rutman | Buck Jones | |||
| Leo Wolf | ||||||
| 1997 | May 10 | James Appleberry | James Appleberry Doctor of Humane Letters | Mildred Arnold | Mark Bolyard | |
| 1997 | August 9 | Fernando Aguirre | ||||
| 1997 | December 20 | Mary Ann Boyd | Richard Mark | |||
| 1998 | May 9 | Jill Pelaez Baumgaertner | Jill Pelaez Baumgaertner Doctor of Humane Letters | Charlote Frisbie Eric Voss | ||
| Hans Vonk Doctor of Fine Arts | ||||||
| 1998 | August 8 | John J. Klobnak | Gilbert Rutman | |||
| 1998 | December 19 | Charles A. Corr | Robert A. Wetzel | |||
| 1999 | May 8 | Gyo Obata | Gyo Obata Doctor of Fine Arts | Chung-Wu Ho | ||
| Irving L. Dilliard Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||||
| 1999 | August 7 | William P. Plashke | Lela DeToye | |||
| 1999 | December 18 | Maurice L. Hirsch, Jr | Clinton and Anna Lee Rogier | |||
| 2000 | May 6 | William T. Going | William T. Going Doctor of Humane Letters | James M. Brown | Elizabeth A Fonsecca | |
| Patrick W. Riddleberger | Patrick W. Riddleberger Doctor of Humane Letters | |||||
| 2000 | August 5 | David R. Herndon | David R. Herndon Tadas Kicielinski | Madhav Segal | ||
| 2000 | December 16 | Shirley J. Portwood | Ruth Slenczynska Kerr Doctor of Fine Arts | |||
| 2001 | May 5 | Lee S. Shulman | Lee S. Shulman Doctor of Humane Letters | Randall S. Pearson | ||
| 2001 | August 4 | William Gray Potter, Jr. | William Gray Potter, Jr. Doctor of Humane Letters | Robert M. Wagner | ||
| 2001 | December 15 | Harlan H. Bengtson | ||||
| 2002 | May 4 | Kenneth A. Shaw | Kenneth A. Shaw Doctor of Humane Letters | Michael J. Shaw | ||
| 2002 | August 3 | Stephen E. Jankowski | Susan L. Thomas | |||
| 2002 | December 14 | Marilynn Livingston | Evelyn M. Bowles | |||
| 2002 | December 14 | Donald S. Elliott, Jr. | ||||
| 2003 | May 10 | Roy Curtiss III | Roy Curtiss III Doctor of Science | |||
| 2003 | May 10 | George Arnold | George Arnold | |||
| 2003 | May 10 | John "Bucky" Pizzarelli, Sr. | John "Bucky" Pizzarelli, Sr. Doctor of Music | |||
| 2003 | August 9 | Lendell A. Phelps | Debra Reichert Hoge | |||
| 2003 | December 20 | Susan M.W.Nall George L. Engel | ||||
| 2004 | May 8 | John Baricevic Robert Remini | Robert Remini Doctor of Humane Letters | John Baricevic | Thomas M. Foster | |
| 2004 | August 7 | Philip J. Rarick | Christina De Meo | |||
| 2004 | December 18 | John R. Danley Mary Konya Weishaar | ||||
| 2005 | May 7 | Gary Evan Moulton Lois Wood | Gary Evan Moulton Doctor of Humane Letters | Lois Wood | Thomas M. Jordan | |
| 2005 | August 6 | Shelby Steele | David Kauzlarich | Victoria Scott | ||
| 2005 | December 17 | Lela M. DeToye Shirley Portwood | ||||
| 2006 | May 6 | Peter Pastreich Rita Hardy | Peter Pastreich Doctor of Humane Letters | Rita Hardy | ||
| 2006 | August 5 | John Simmons | Robert R. Phillips | |||
| 2006 | December 16 | Rudolph G. Wilson | ||||
| 2007 | May 5 | Peter Maer Robert McClellan | Peter Maer Doctor of Humane Letters | Robert McClellan | ||
| 2007 | August 4 | Keith M. Alper | Barbara Regnell | |||
| 2007 | Dec 15 | William G. Hendey Paul Seaburg | ||||
| 2008 | May 10 | Eugene Redmond Carol Wetzel | Eugene Redmond Doctor of Humane Letters | Carol Wetzel | Brian M. Harward | |
| 2008 | August (not held because of VC Gym Renovations) | |||||
| 2008 | December 20 | Brian M. Harward | ||||
| 2009 | May 8 | |||||
| 2009 | May 9 | David Oates Jane Henney | Jane Henney Doctor of Humane Letters | David Oates | Jennifer A. Rehg | |
| 2009 | August 8 | Laura Pawlow | Laura Pawlow | |||
| 2009 | Dec 19 | Jennifer Rehg | ||||
| 2010 | May 7 | Ralph Korte | Ralph Korte Doctor of Humane Letters | Valerie Yancey | ||
| 2010 | May 8 | Charles J. Tosovsky | Charles J. Tosovsky | |||
| 2010 | August 7 | Nahid Shabestary | Nahid Shabestary | |||
| 2010 | Dec 18 | Valerie Yancey | ||||
| 2011 | May 6 | Dolores H. Rohrkaste | Dolores H. Rohrkaste | |||
| 2011 | May 7 | Clinton R. Van Zandt | Clinton R. Van Zandt Doctor of Humane Letters | Jason Stacy | ||
| 2011 | August 6 | Bradley Noble | Bradley Noble |
Prepared by:
Stephen Kerber, Amanda Bahr-Evola, and Angela Collins Custer
of Louisa H. Bowen University Archives and Special Collections, Lovejoy Library.
