Hamilton College - Commencement - Honorary Degree Recipients

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	Honorary Degree Recipients The following list includes recipients of honorary degrees since 2000. 2008 Taylor Branch, Author (Baccalaureate Speaker) Henry M. Paulson, Jr., U.S. Treasury Secretary (Commencement Speaker) Wendy Paulson, Environmentalist Josiah "Josh" Simpson '72, Glass Artist 2007 Sherwood Boehlert, former Congressman Johnnetta B. Cole, President of Bennett College for Women (Baccalaureate Speaker) Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations (Commencement Speaker) F. Eugene Romano '49, local businessman 2006 Judith and Bill Moyers, Broadcast journalist (Baccalaureate Speaker) Anna Quindlen, Author (Commencement speaker) Joseph S. Nye, Jr. P'87, P'88, Government studies educator, administrator 2005 Mary L. Bonauto '83, attorney, GLAAD Peter John Gomes, professor and minister, Harvard University (Baccalaureate Speaker) Francis Haas Musselman '50, attorney, life trustee of Hamilton College, former chairman of the board of Kirkland College Kurt L. Schmoke, former mayor of Baltimore (Commencement speaker) Joseph Volpe, general manager, The Metropolitan Opera 2004 Kevin Kennedy '70, investment banker and former chairman of the Hamilton Board of Trustees Margaret Miles, noted theological historian Richard Nelson '72, playwright Joseph Wilder, jazz trumpeter Michael Castle '61, U.S. Representative and former Republican governor of Delaware (speaker only, HD was awarded earlier) 2003 Rt. Rev. G.P. Mellick Belshaw, retired bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of NJ David Grubin '65, writer, director and producer of documentary films Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute Jim Lehrer, journalist (speaker) Bucky Pizzarelli, jazz guitarist Joan Hinde Stewart, president of Hamilton College Roger W. Strauss Jr. '39, publisher 2002 Stephen Carter, professor, author and moralist Richard Hyman, jazz composer, arranger, conductor and organist Paul Kellogg, artistic director of the Glimmerglass Opera and director of the NY City Opera Thomas Meehan '51, Tony Award-winning Broadway writer Christy Todd Whitman, EPA Administrator and former Republican governor of NJ (speaker) 2001 John M. Driscoll '58, chairman of pediatrics, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center Paul Greengard '48, 2000 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, author, Harvard professor and education scholar Jeffrey P. Mass '62, professor of history, Stanford University (posthumous) Ralph Sutton, jazz pianist Tom Vilsack '72, Democratic governor of Iowa (speaker) Melinda Wagner '79, 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning composer 2000 Kenny Davern, jazz clarinetist John D. Feerick, dean of the Fordham University Law School Rev. D. Joan Martin, Assoc. Professor of Christian Ethics and Episcopal Divinity School John Nichols '62, author Sir Brian Urquhart, retired United Nations Undersecretary (speaker)
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