Honorary Degree Recipients
An honorary degree is the highest honor Keuka College bestows upon an individual. An honorary degree is awarded to those who have demonstrated an honoris causa—a cause for which to be honored. Honorary degrees are awarded by the Board of Trustees to recognize the recipient's contributions to society, a specific field, or Keuka College.
| 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 Faulkner | 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. |
| 2012 | CDR Barbara E. Miller | D.H.L. |
| 2013 | Esther A. Yoder | D.H.L. |
| 2013 | Guanghuang Ye | D.H.L. |
| 2014 | Dexter N. Benedict | D.H.L. |
| 2014 | Robert J. Duffy | D.H.L. |
| 2015 | Audrey S. Wolcott | D.H.L. |
| 2016 | Joanna Pi Hua Chen | D.H.L. |
| 2018 | The Hon. Lovely A. Warren | D.H.L. |
| 2018 | Robert D. Taisey | D.H.L. |
| 2019 | Beverly Daniel Tatum | D.H.L. |
| 2019 | Robert R. Gosende | D.H.L. |
| 2020 | Sister Helen Prejean | D.H.L |
| 2021 | Yi-Fei Wang | D.H.L |
| 2022 | Katherene Tuttle Meisch ’58 | D.H.L. |
| 2022 | Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine | D.H.L. |
| 2023 | Barbara Schaefer Allardice '61 | D.H.L. |
| 2024 | Donald P. Wertman | D.H.L. |
Key
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