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Smith
College Honorary Degree Recipients of the Past
When Eric Reeves, professor
of English language and literature, receives an honorary
degree from Smith College on March 6, he will join an elite
list of people in the college's history who were also awarded
honorary degrees while at Smith. Below is a complete
list provided by Smith College Archives. (Also, in the college's history.)
| Name of Recipient |
Year
|
Department |
Years at Smith |
| Ainsworth,
Dorothy Sears ’16 |
1956 |
Physical Education |
1921-1960 |
| Ajzenberg-Selove, Fay |
1995 |
Physics |
1952-1953 |
| Anslow,
Gladys ’14 |
1950 |
Physics |
1914-1965 |
|
Benton, Mary Lathrap |
1914 |
French/Latin |
1897-1914 |
| Blakeslee, Albert F. |
1952 |
Botany |
1942-1954 |
| Carter, Gwendolyn |
1979 |
Government |
1943-1964 |
| Chase, Mary Ellen |
1949 |
English |
1926-1955 |
| Conkling, Grace Hazard 1899 |
1930 |
English |
1915; 1940-1946 |
| Conway, Jill Ker |
1988 |
President 1975-1985 |
|
| Cutler, Anna 1885 |
1952 |
Philosophy |
1893-1930 |
| Czarnomska, M. Elizabeth |
1904 |
English |
1888-1904 |
| Davis,
Natalie Zemon ’49 |
1977 |
History |
|
|
| Dean, Vera Micheles |
1944 |
Government |
1952-1954 |
| Drew, Elizabeth |
1962 |
English |
1946-1961 |
| Duckett, Eleanor Shipley |
1949 |
Latin |
1916-1949 |
| Dunn, Esther Cloudman |
1956 |
English |
1922-1960 |
| Dunn, Mary Maples |
1998 |
President 1985-1995 |
|
| Fay, Sidney Bradshaw |
1929 |
History |
1914-1929 |
| Gaposchkin, Cecilia Payne |
1951 |
Astronomy |
1952-1953 |
| Gardiner, Harry Norman |
1924 |
Philosophy |
1884-1924 |
| Gibson,
Eleanor Jack ’31 |
1945 |
Psychology |
1931-1949 |
| Gilman, Florence |
1923 |
Health & Hygiene |
1909-1923 |
| Green,
Constance McLaughlin ’19 |
1963 |
History |
1938-1939 |
| Hardwick, Elizabeth |
1975 |
English |
1975-1976 |
| Hartman,
Anne ’54 |
1995 |
School for Social Work |
| Hawes, Harriet Boyd 1892 |
1910 |
Classical Literature & Languages |
1900-1906 |
| Holland, Louise Adams |
1965 |
Classical Literature & Languages |
1957-1964 |
| Holmes, Rebecca Wilder |
1936 |
Music |
1903-1936 |
| Holmes, Vera Brown |
1960 |
History |
1924-1958 |
| Horner, B. Elizabeth |
2006 |
Zoology |
1938-1986 |
| Jordan, Mary Augusts |
1910 |
English |
1884-1921 |
| Kapp, Marle F. |
1904 |
German |
1880-1911 |
| Kimball, Everett |
1947 |
History/Government |
1904-1942 |
| Kraushaar, Otto F. |
1948 |
Philosophy |
1933-1948 |
| MacDonald,
Florence I. ’32 |
1976 |
Secretary to the Dean and President |
1948-1976 |
| McCarntey, Kenneth |
1973 |
Economics |
1954-1987 |
| McCracken, Henry Noble |
1915 |
English |
1913-1915 |
| McFague,
Sallie ’55 |
1977 |
Religion |
1957-1958 |
| McMillan ’16 |
1941 |
Art |
1919-1920 |
| Mendenhall, Thomas C. |
1978 |
President 1959-1975 |
|
| Morrow, Elizabeth Cutter1896 |
1937 |
President 1940 |
|
| Neilson, William A. |
1942 |
President 1917-1939 |
|
| Nicolson, Marjorie Hope |
1941 |
English |
1926-1941 |
| Notestein, Ada Comstock 1897 |
1922 |
Dean of College |
1912-1923 |
| Peck, Ludella L. |
1904 |
Speech |
1882-1913 |
| Pittman,
Helen Sinclair ’21 |
1966 |
Zoology |
1921-1923 |
| Sabin, Florence 1893 |
1910 |
Zoology |
1895-1896 |
| Satin, Sophie |
1944 |
Botany |
1942-1955 |
| Scales,
Laura Lord ’01 |
1931 |
Warden of the College |
1922-1944 |
| Schinz, Albert |
1928 |
French |
1913-1928 |
| Seelye, Laurenus Clark |
1913 |
President; Biblical Literature |
1873-1910 |
| Thorp,
Margaret Farrand ’14 |
1957 |
English |
1921-1927 |
| Tryon, Dwight D. |
1923 |
Art |
1886-1923 |
| Tyler, Henry Mather |
1926 |
Greek/Classical Lit. and Langs. |
1877-1912; 1890-1912 |
| Unsworth, Richard P. |
1992 |
Religion and Biblical Lit./Chaplain |
1954-1964; 1967-1980 |
| Vendler, Helen |
1980 |
English |
1964-1966 |
| Vincens, Berthe |
1910 |
French |
1900-1912 |
| Welty, Eurdora |
1956 |
English |
1961-1962 |
| White, Helen Constance |
1947 |
English |
1917-1919 |
| Wilbur, Richard |
1996 |
English |
1977-1986 |
| Wilson, Margaret Lynn |
1978 |
Zoology |
1961-1964 |
|
| Wilson,
Mira B. ’14 |
|
1938 |
Religion & Biblical Literature |
1921-1929 |
| Wu, Chien Shiung |
1959 |
Physics |
1942-1943 |
| Yale, Caroline Ardelia |
1910 |
Speech |
1916-1921 |
| Yolen, Jane ’60 |
|
2003 |
Education & Child Study |
1980-1984 |
| Davis, Herbert John |
1949 |
President of the College |
1940-1949 |
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