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| | | |The practice of conferring honorary degrees dates from the Middle Ages, as do many of the traditions surrounding college and university commencement ceremonies. The University of Oxford awarded its first honorary degree in the 1470s. More than 200 years later, in 1692, Harvard University was the first American institution to confer honorary degrees upon individuals for outstanding contributions in a particular field of study or to society in general.
Albertus Magnus College awarded its first honorary degree in 1936 to Margaret L. Keefe, superintendent of schools from 1912 to 1954 in neighboring Hamden. She was recognized for her outstanding commitment and dedication to educating Hamden’s young people.
The Doctor of Humane Letters (D.H.L.) is the most frequently awarded honorary degree here at the College, followed by Doctor of Law (LL.D.).
| June 11, 1936 | |
| Margaret L. Keefe | L.L.D. |
| October 8, 1950 | |
| Esther Budd, AMC’28 | D.N. |
| Christopher Wyatt | D.H.L. |
| June 3, 1965 | |
| Aldo P. DeDominicis | D.H.L. |
| Patrick J. Goode | D.H.L. |
| Sister Madonna Murphy, AMC’37, C.S.C. | D.H.L. |
| May 2, 1971 | |
| John M. Golden | D.H.L. |
| Edward Bennett Williams | L.L.D. |
| June 11, 1972 | |
| Josephine P. Bree | D.H.L. |
| Ruth C. Gillespie | D.H.L. |
| Margaret O’Shaughnessy Heckler, AMC’53 | L.L.D. |
| Sister Marie Louise Hubert, O.P. | L.L.D. |
| John F. Robinson | L.L.D. |
| William Sanders | L.L.D. |
| January 5, 1973 | |
| His Majesty, Palden Thondup Namgyal | L.L.D. |
| 12th Consecrated Chogyal of Sikkim | |
| Hope Cooke Namgyla, Gyalmo of Sikkim | L.L.D. |
| June 3, 1973 | |
| Mary Daly Bain, AMC’34 | D.S. |
| Rev. Vincent Cyril Dore, O.P. | L.L.D. |
| Sister Mary Charles Gallagher | L.L.D. |
| Ruth Alice Hass | L.L.D. |
| Jane Dargan Humphries | L.L.D. |
| Sister Irmina Longstreth, O.P. | L.L.D. |
| Jaroslav Jan Pelikan | D.H.L. |
| June 2, 1974 | |
| The Honorable Ellen Bree Burns, AMC’44 | L.L.D. |
| Francis H. Horn | D.H.L. |
| Sister Arline Schmeer, O.P. | D.S. |
| Archbishop John F. Whealon | L.L.D. |
| May 19, 1975 | |
| Bishop John F. Donnelly | D.H.L. |
| Mary Etta Knapp | D.H.L. |
| The Honorable Gloria Schaffer | D.P.A. |
| Richard B. Sewall | D.H.L. |
| May 23, 1976 | |
| Bianca Contini Calabresi | D.H.L. |
| Dean Isabel Charles | D.H.L. |
| Mrs. Emilie N. Hansen | D.H.L. |
| The Honorable Constance Baker Motley | L.L.D. |
| May 22, 1977 | |
| Dorothea Rudnick | D.S. |
| Mary A. Wrenn, AMC’46 | L.L.D. |
| May 21, 1978 | |
| Raymond E. Baldwin | L.L.D. |
| Maxine Schlingman | D.H.L. |
| Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse | L.L.D. |
| May 20, 1979 | |
| Margaret Mealey | D.H.L. |
| May 18, 1980 | |
| Phyllis Curtin | D.H.L. |
| May 17, 1981 | |
| Sister Maria Patricia Devaney, O.P. | D.H.L. |
| Dr. M. Kathleen McGrory | D.H.L. |
| Miss Eileen O’Neill, AMC’37 | D.H.L. |
| May 23, 1982 | |
| Christopher H. Buckley | L.L.D. |
| Charles M. Grace | D.H.L. |
| The Honorable Richard C. Lee | L.L.D. |
| Mary Ellen Mininberg, AMC’49 | D.H.L. |
| Sister Camilla Mullay, O.P. | D.H.L. |
| Philip Paolella | L.L.D. |
| The Honorable Lisa Aversa Richette | L.L.D. |
| January 13, 1983 | |
| Edward Cornelis Florentius Alfons | D.H.L. |
| Schillebeeckx, O.P. | |
| May 22, 1983 | |
| Dr. Henry Viscardi Jr. | Ed.D. |
| May 20, 1984 | |
| Anita Flannigan, AMC’37 | D.H.L. |
| Florence Jacobson | D.H.L. |
| The Most Reverend Thomas C. Kelly | D.H.L. |
| Sister Melinda Rober, M.M. | D.H.L. |
| May 19, 1985 | |
| Mary Benevento | D.H.L. |
| Robert J. Leeney | D.H.L. |
| Eunice Kennedy Shriver | D.H.L. |
| May 18, 1986 | |
| Virgil C. Dechant | D.H.L. |
| James A. Walsh | D.H.L. |
| Dr. Luca E. Celantano | D.H.L. |
| Dr. Giacominia Hippolitus (Mrs. Jean) | D.H.L. |
| Sister Francis Clare O’Malley, O.P. | D.H.L. |
| Sister Wilfrida Walsh, O.P. | D.H.L. |
| May 24, 1987 | |
| William F. Buckley Jr. | D.H.L. |
| Elizabeth Patterson | D.H.L. |
| May 22, 1988 | |
| Eleanor Estes | D.H.L. |
| Mary Brooks Griswold | D.H.L. |
| Jean M. Handley | D.H.L. |
| John Hersey | D.H.L. |
| Herbert H. Pearce | D.H.L. |
| May 21, 1989 | |
| Dr. James P. Comer | D.H.L. |
| Sister Joan Delaney, M.M. | D.H.L. |
| Louis Harris | D.H.L. |
| C. Newton Schenck, III | D.H.L. |
| Mary Hunter Wolf | D.H.L. |
| May 20, 1990 | |
| Sister Anne Virginie Grimes, S.C. | D.H.L. |
| Sister Mary Ellen Lynch, O.P. | D.H.L. |
| The Honorable Ellen Ash Peters | D.H.L. |
| Lloyd Richards | D.H.L. |
| Calvin Trillin | D.H.L. |
| Dr. Anne C. Wollack, AMC’35 | D.H.L. |
| May 17, 1991 | |
| Jack Africk | D.H.L. |
| Kevin Roche | D.H.L. |
| Sister Miriam Therese Winter, M.M.S. | D.H.L. |
| The Honorable Lowell P. Weicker Jr. | L.L.D. |
| May 17, 1992 | |
| Philip Johnson | D.H.L. |
| Sister Thomas Aquin Kelly, O.P. | D.H.L. |
| Marion E. Morra | D.S. |
| Cornell Scott | D.H.L. |
| Vincent Scully | D.H.L. |
| May 23, 1993 | |
| Arvin Brown | D.H.L. |
| Sister Louise Anthony, S.C. | D.H.L. |
| Thomas J. Meskill | L.L.D. |
| Walter H. Monteith Jr. | D.H.L. |
| Verdell M. Roberts | D.H.L. |
| April 10, 1994 | |
| Susan Saint James | D.H.L. |
| Fenmore R. Seton and Phyllis Z. Seton | D.H.L. |
| Ella Scantlebury | D.H.L. |
| Cesar Pelli | D.H.L. |
| December 11, 1994 | |
| Katrina Clark | D.H.L. |
| Frederick Mancheski | D.H.L. |
| June 25, 1995 | |
| Michael Palmer | D.H.L. |
| Ann Dechant | D.H.L. |
| The Honorable Charles Gill | D.H.L. |
| The Honorable Guido Calabresi | L.L.D. |
| April 14, 1996 | |
| Sister Margaret Ormond, O.P. | D.H.L. |
| June 30, 1996 | |
| Reverend Theodore Hesburgh, CSC | D.H.L. |
| Alice Golden, AMC’84 | D.H.L. |
| Harold Robles | D.H.L. |
| June 22, 1997 | |
| Anne Calabresi | D.H.L. |
| Timothy Shriver | D.H.L. |
| Ernest Borgnine | D.H.L. |
| Daniel Cosgrove | D.H.L. |
| January 10, 1998 | |
| Bernard Pellegrino | D.H.L. |
| Martha McMahon McCaffrey, AMC’54 | D.S. |
| May 17, 1998 | |
| Roger Angell | D.H.L. |
| Richard J. Grossi | D.H.L. |
| Daniel and Nancy Kops | D.H.L. |
| Barbara L. Pearce | D.H.L. |
| The Honorable Joseph Lieberman | D.H.L. |
| January 17, 1999 | |
| The Honorable JoAnne Kiely Kulawiz, AMC ’56 | D.H.L. |
| May 16, 1999 | |
| Harold Hongju Koh | D.H.L. |
| Elizabeth B. Kubler | D.H.L. |
| Edward J. Logue | D.H.L. |
| Sr. MaryJane Paolella, ASCJ | D.H.L. |
| May 21, 2000 | |
| Mel Goldstein | D.H.L. |
| Sister Mary Andrew Matesich, O.P. | D.H.L. |
| Georges May | D.H.L. |
| Hugh B. Price | D.H.L. |
| Mitchell Sviridoff | D.H.L. |
| Agnes Timpson | D.H.L. |
| May 20, 2001 | |
| Gerald and Joanne Anderson | D.H.L. |
| Sr. Mary Ellen Burns, A.S.C.J. | D.H.L. |
| Rev. Bonita Grubbs | D.H.L. |
| John M. Lyons | D.H.L. |
| Robert J. Lyons Sr. | D.H.L. |
| Margaret L. MacDonough | D.H.L. |
| May 19, 2002 | |
| Sr. Mary Faith Geelan, O.P. | D.H.L. |
| Sidney and Libby Glucksman | D.H.L. |
| Willie Ruff | D.H.L. |
| May 19, 2003 | |
| Bishop Theodore L. Brooks | D.H.L. |
| Frances T. “Bitsie” Clark | D.H.L. |
| Brother Rick Curry, S.J. | D.H.L. |
| Louis F. Tagliatela Sr. | D.H.L. |
| May 16, 2004 | |
| Tony Falcone | D.H.L. |
| Sr. Dolores Liptak, RSM, AMC ’53 | D.H.L. |
| The Honorable Flemming Norcott Jr. | D.H.L. |
| The Reverend Joseph A. O’Hare, S.J. | D.H.L. |
| May 15, 2005 | |
| Gerald S. Clark | D.H.L. |
| Alison Cunningham | D.H.L. |
| Evelyn Garrity AMC ’48 | D.H.L. |
| The Most Reverend Henry J. Mansell | D.H.L. |
| September 19, 2005 | |
| Robert F. Behan | D.H.L. |
| May 14, 2006 | |
| The Honorable Robert J. Callahan | D.H.L. |
| Lorraine D. Cronin | D.H.L. |
| Barry Svigals | D.H.L. |
| Sr. Thoma Swanson, O.P. | D.H.L. |
| Tomoko Takahashi, AMC ’77 | D.H.L. |
| May 20, 2007 | |
| David Hayes, M.F.A. | D.H.L. |
| Joseph P. Kazickas, Ph.D. | D.H.L. |
| Henry C. Lee, Ph.D. | D.H.L. |
| Roslyn Milstein Meyer, Ph.D. | D.H.L. |
| Gualberto Ruaño, M.D., Ph.D. | D.H.L. |
| May 18, 2008 | |
| Charles G. Crump | D.H.L. |
| Carlton L. Highsmith | D.H.L. |
| Thelma M. Johnson | D.H.L. |
| Valerie F. Lewis | D.H.L. |
| Jacqueline Noonan, M.D., AMC ’50 | D.H.L. |
| May 19, 2009 | |
| Sr. Anne Kilbride, O.P. | D.H.L. |
| Margaret Badum Melady, Ph.D. | D.H.L. |
| Honorable Thomas Patrick Melady, Ph.D. | D.H.L. |
| May 16, 2010 | |
| Carl A. Anderson | D.H.L. |
| Sr. Ann Bailie, O.P. | D.H.L. |
| Jane Nady Sigmon, AMC ’70 | D.H.L. |
| Lula White | D.H.L. |
| May 15, 2011 | |
| Sr. Charles Marie Brantl, O.P., AMC ’51 | D.H.L. |
| Sr. Mary Faith Dargan, O.P., AMC ’53 | D.H.L. |
| Natalia Icaza Holland AMC ’40 | D.H.L. |
| Marcus R. McCraven | D.H.L. |
| May 20, 2012 | |
| Dorsey L. Kendrick | D.H.L. |
| Ragaa Mazen | D.H.L. |
| Reverend Timothy A.Meehan | D.H.L. |
| Joan V. O'Brien, ’46 | D.H.L. |
| May 19, 2013 | |
| Ms. Barbara DeBaptiste | D.H.L. |
| The Honorable John T. Downey | D.H.L. |
| Sister Doris Regan, O.P. | D.H.L. |
| D.H.L. | DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTERS |
| L.L.D. | DOCTOR OF LAWS |
| Ed.D. | DOCTOR OF EDUCATION |
| D.S. | DOCTOR OF SCIENCE |
| D.N. | DOCTOR OF NURSING |
| D.P.A. | DOCTOR OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION |
