Previous Honorary Degree Recipients 1954—2018 Previous Honorary Degree Recipients Degree Conferred—Date T. COLEMAN ANDREWS ’21, Commissioner of Internal Revenue. DCS—June. 1954 JACOB L. HOLTZMAN, Regent of the University of the State of New York . DCL—June 1954 JOHN EDGAR HOOVER, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation. DCL—June 1954 FREDERICK MARTIN SCHAEBERLE ’14, Incorporator and Retired Treasurer, Pace College . DCS—June 1954 CHARLES T. BRYAN ’14, Incorporator and Retired Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Pace College . DCL—June 1955 WILLIAM B. FRANKE ’17, U.S. Secretary of the Navy . DCL—June 1955 JOHN A. KROUT, Vice President and Provost of Columbia University. DCS—June 1955 ALOYSIUS A. LALLY, CPA, ’25. DCS—June 1955 JOSEPH I. LUBIN, CPA, ’21, Chairman, New York State Board of Certified Public Accountant Examiners . DCS—June 1955 CHESTER A. ALLEN ’15, President, Kings County Trust Company. DCL—June 1956 ELLIOTT V. BELL, Chairman of the Executive Committee, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Inc. DCS—June 1956 ERNEST A. JOHNSON, President, Lake Forest College. DCS—June 1956 PETER F. DRUCKER, Professor of Management, Graduate School of Business Administration, New York University. DCS—October 1956 CARROLL V. NEWSOM, President, New York University. DCL—June 1956 EDWARD H. LITCHFIELD, Chancellor, University of Pittsburgh . DCS—October 1956 CHARLES F. NOYES, Chairman, Charles F. Noyes Company, Inc.. DCS—October 1956 THEODORE S. REPPLIER, President, The Advertising Council, Inc. DCL—October 1956 EMANUEL SAXE, Dean, Bernard M. Baruch School of Business and Public Administration, City College of New York. DCS—October 1956 MARGARET CHASE SMITH, United States Senator from Maine . DCL—October 1956 DWAYNE ORTON, Editor, Think Magazine and Educational Consultant, International Business Machines Corporation . DCS—April 1957 WILLIAM F. ALBRIGHT, W.W. Spence Professor of Semitic Languages, The Johns Hopkins University . DCL—June 1957 JOHN F. BROSNAN, Chancellor of the Board of Regents, University of the State of New York . DCS—June 1957 CLARENCE MICHALIS, Chairman, Seaman’s Bank for Savings . DCS—June 1957 C. RICHARD PACE, Incorporator, Retired Member of the Faculty, Retired Member of the Board of Trustees, and Secretary of Pace College . DCL—July 1957 THE VERY REVEREND LAURENCE J. McGINLEY, SJ, President, Fordham University. DCL—June 1958 EVERETT J. PENNY, Regent, University of the State of New York . DCS—June 1958 JACOB K. JAVITS, United States Senator from New York . DCL—July 1958 JOSEPH GRUBER, Director of Business Education, Board of Education of the City of New York . DSC—June 1959 RICHARD C. PATTERSON JR., Commissioner, Department of Commerce and Public Events of the City of New York. DCL—June 1959 CARL H. PFORZHEIMER JR., Regent, University of the State of New York . DCS—June 1959 EDWARD L. STEINIGER ’25, Chairman of the Board, Sinclair Oil Corporation . DSC—June 1959 MALCOLM WILSON, Lieutenant Governor of New York . .LLD—June 1959 HELEN PACE BOWEN, Retired Member of the Board of Trustees, Pace College. LHD—November 1959 EDWARD J. KOESTLER ’25, Retired Member of the Board of Trustees, Pace College. DCS—November 1959 KENNETH B. KEATING, United States Senator from New York . DCS—June 1960 GUSTAV O. LIENHARD ’26, Chairman of the Executive Committee of Johnson & Johnson . DCS—June 1960 WAYNE C. MARKS ’28, President, General Foods Corporation . LLD—June 1960 JOSEPH A. MARTINO ’22, Chairman of the Board, National Lead Company. DCS—June 1960 FRANCIS H. HORN, President, University of Rhode Island . DCL—January 1961 EWALD B. NYQUIST, Deputy Commissioner of Education, New York State Education Department. DCL—January 1961 ROBERT SCOTT PACE, Incorporator, Member of the Board of Trustees, Retired President and President Emeritus, Pace College. LHD—January 1961 BROOKS ATKINSON, Critic at Large, The New York Times. LHD—June 1961 ROBERT E. HEALY ’25, Chairman of the Board, Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc.. DCS—June 1961 ALVIN R. JENNINGS ’26, Partner, Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery . DCS—June 1961 SIR HUGH TAYLOR, President, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. LHD—June 1961 KENNETH E. BOULDING, Professor of Economics, University of Michigan . LHD—June 1962 CHARLES H. BROWER, Chairman, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. LHD—June 1962 SIMON LOEB, CPA, ’12, Partner, Loeb & Troper and Trustee, Pace College. DCS—June 1962 HENRY C. ALEXANDER, Chairman of the Board, Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York. LHD—January 1963 PAUL GRADY, Retired Partner, Price Waterhouse & Co. DCS—June 1963 WILLIAM H. MOORE, Chairman of the Board, Bankers Trust Company. .LLD—June 1963 WILLIAM PEARSON TOOLEY, Chancellor, Syracuse University . LHD—June 1963 BYRON C. WILLCOX ’16, Vice President and Director, Grolier, Incorporated and Trustee, Pace College. DCS—June 1963 ROGER M. BLOUGH, Chairman of the Board, United States Steel Corporation . LHD—January 1964 JOHN D. BUTT, President, The Buttonwood Corporation and Trustee, Pace College. LLD—June 1964 JOEL DEAN, Professor of Business Economics, Columbia University. DCS—June 1964 LOREN C. EISELEY, University Professor of Anthropology and the History of Science, University of Pennsylvania. LHD—June 1964 CARLOS LACERDA, Governor of the State of Guanabara, Brazil. DCL—June 1964 SAMUEL D. LEIDESDORF, CPA, Founding Partner, S.D. Leidesdorf & Co.. DCS—June 1964 Previous Honorary Degree Recipients — 1 14035_SE Commencement HDR Listing Update 2018.indd 1 7/17/18 2:46 PM Previous Honorary Degree Recipients Degree Conferred—Date MARIANNE CRAIG MOORE, Distinguished American Poet . LHD—June 1964 MONROE J. RATHBONE, Chairman, Standard Oil Company (NJ). LHD—January 1965 CHARLES H. DYSON ’30, Chairman of the Board, Dyson-Kissner Corporation and Trustee, Pace College . DCS—June 1965 MOSES HADAS, Jay Professor of Greek, Columbia University . .LLD—June 1965 FREDERICK R. KAPPEL, Chairman of the Board, American Telephone and Telegraph Company . .LLD—June 1965 JAMES F. OATES JR., Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States . DCS—June 1965 JAMES E. ALLEN JR., Commissioner of Education, President of the University of the State of New York. LHD—June 1966 ALEXANDER BALTZLY, Adjunct Professor of Social Sciences, Pace College . LHD—June 1966 HAROLD BLANCKE ’25, Chairman of the Board, Celanese Corporation of America. DCS—June 1966 CARL W. BUCHHEISTER, President, National Audubon Society . .LLD—June 1966 LUIS A. FERRE, Partner, Ferre Industries . DCL—June 1966 GEORGE CHAMPION, Chairman of the Board, Chase Manhattan Bank. LHD—December 1966 HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, Vice President of the United States. DCL—December 1966 JOHN V. LINDSAY, Mayor of the City of New York . DCL—December 1966 SAMUEL MILLER, Partner, Scribner & Miller and Chairman, Board of Trustees of Pace College . LLD—December 1966 THOMAS J. WATSON JR., Chairman of the Board, International Business Machines Corporation . LHD—January 1967 GEORGE PIERCE BAKER, Dean, Faculty of Business Administration and George Fisher Baker Professor of Administration, Harvard University . .LLD—June 1967 LEO CHERNE, Executive Director, The Research Institute of America . .LLD—June 1967 PAUL HORGAN, Distinguished American Author and Historian . LHD—June 1967 WALTER A. McCADDEN ’29, Comptroller, International Nickel Company of Canada, Limited. DCS—June 1967 ROBERT C. WEAVER, Secretary, Department of Housing and Urban Development . DCL—June 1967 WILLIAM L. BUTCHER, Chairman, County Trust Company and Trustee, Pace College . .LLD—June 1968 DAVID M. HEYMAN, President, New York Foundation . .LLD—June 1968 HOWARD E. JACKSON ’23, Consultant, W.C. Heaton & Company and Trustee, Pace College. DCS—June 1968 JOSEPH W. McGOVERN, Chancellor, the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York. DCL—June 1968 CONSTANCE McLAUGHLIN GREEN, Distinguished American Historian and Pulitzer Prize Winner . LHD—June 1968 CAROL K. PFORZHEIMER, President, Westchester Council of Social Agencies. LHD—June 1968 AUSTIN J. TOBIN, Executive Director, Port of New York Authority . DCL—June 1968 JAMES A. LINEN, President, Time Inc. LHD—January 1969 GEORGE L. BOWEN, MD, Trustee, Pace College. LHD—June 1969 CHAUNCEY W. COOK, Chairman and Chief Executive, General Foods Corporation . LHD—June 1969 CHARLES W. FROESSEL, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, New York Law School and Trustee, Pace College . LLD—June 1969 GABRIEL HAUGE, President, Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company. LHD—June 1969 THOMAS B. HOGAN, Partner, Haskins & Sells and Trustee, Pace College . DCS—June 1969 GARDNER D. STOUT, President, American Museum of Natural History. LHD—June 1969 PAUL WEISS, Sterling Professor of Philosophy, Yale University . ..