HONORARY DEGREES GIVEN BY SDSU SINCE 1923 M:\VPAcAff\awards\Honorary Degrees\List of HONORARY DEGREES.doc NAME T. Denny Sanford Public Service 2015 Eugene McGowan Bachelor of Science in Music and Entrepreneurial 2014 Studies Dana Dykhouse Public Service 2014 Laurie S. Fulton Public Service 2012 Faye E. Tyler Wade Bachelor of Science in Education and Human Sciences 2012 M. Michael Rounds Public Service 2011 Walter Reed Letters and Literature 2010 General Maurice Forsyth Public Service 2010 JoAnne Bird Humanities and Arts 2010 Van Fishback Public Service 2010 General Mark Clark Public Service 2010 William Hinks Bachelor of Art Degree in Music 2010 Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve Humane Letters 2008 Lowell Amiotte Public Service 2008 Ralph J. (R.J.) Thompson Public Service 2007 Mary Kathryn Wagner Public Service (Awarded Posthumously) 2006 Henry Ditterich Bachelor of Science Degree in Dairy Science 2006 Robert F. Karolevitz Humane Letters 2006 Theodore J. Kooser Humane Letters 2006 Elizabeth Berg Public Service 2005 Thomas Daschle Public Service 2005 John W. Ryan Public Service 2005 Julie Louise Gerberding Science 2004 James Abdnor Public Service 2004 Clarence Mortenson Science 2003 Patricia S. Fishback Public Service 2003 John Doyle Ong Public Service 2002 Arthur Amiotte Humane Letters 2002
Paul Goble Humane Letters 2002 Sister Mary Damon Nolan Public Service 2002 Alice Kundert Public Service 2001 Kathleen Norris Letters and Literature 2001 Jerome J. Jerry Lohr Public Service 2000 Ambassador Walter H. Annenberg Public Service 2000 Kenneth Burns Public Service 2000 Dr. Maya Angelou Humane Letters 1999 Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day Public Service 1999 O Connor William Bill Hustead Public Service 1999 Kevin Costner Public Service 1998 Lionel Bordeaux Public Service 1998 Andrew Fischbach BS in Civil Engineering 1998 Lyle E. Schroeder Public Service 1997 Donald G. Moore (Posthumous) Science 1997 Robert E. Fishback Public Service 1997 Theodore (Ted) E. Hustead Public Service 1996 Jeanine D. Basinger Humanities 1996 Stanley D. Jensen Science 1995 Imogene VanOverschelde Public Service 1995 Howard M. Sauer Public Service 1994 Donald T. Lauer Science 1994 Helen K. Grace Science 1993 Harold W. Shunk Public Service 1992 Keith E. Keltgen Public Service 1992 Anson A. Yeager Public Service 1991 O. Dale Larson Humanities 1991 Raymond L. Linder Science 1990 Harold H. Hall Science 1990 Helen Johnson VanZante Science 1987
Charles A. Taylor Science 1986 George S. McGovern Public Service 1986 Dean Benton Doner Letters 1985 Emil Loriks Public Service 1984 Inez G. Hinsvark Science 1984 Marcus S. Zuber Science 1983 R. Milton Rich Public Service 1982 David Flagstad Pearson Humanities 1981 Jeannette Crawford Lusk Humanities 1981 Lester L. Helgeland Letters 1981 Nelle A. Hartwig Science 1981 Clifford James Franzke Agriculture 1981 Kenneth Herbert Anderson Agriculture 1981 James N. Etteldorf Science 1980 R. Esther Erickson Science 1980 Henry A. Lardy Science 1979 William M. Griffith Public Service 1979 Charles A. Lundquist Science 1979 Alvilda Myre Sorenson Humanities 1978 Melvin L. Manning Engineering 1978 Paul A. Batcheller Agriculture 1978 William DePuy Science 1977 Henry Holzman Public Service 1977 David L. Hume Agriculture 1977 Robert McNamara Science 1977 Fred H. Holscher Public Service 1976 Dona Susan Brown Public Service 1976 Gene Myron Amdahl Engineering 1974 Orville George Bentley Science 1974 David Benton Doner Humanities 1973
Ben Reifel Humanities 1971 Geraldine Fenn Humanities 1971 Ila Delbert Weeks Humanities 1969 J. Carroll Bottom Science 1969 William Lester McKnight Science 1968 Oscar Howe Humanities 1968 Hubert H. Humphrey Science 1967 Alvin A. Schock Science 1966 Robert H. Burris Science 1966 Sam Henry Bober Science 1966 Anna Haugen Berdahl Science 1966 Robert Towner Hill Science 1965 William S. Lowe Engineering 1964 Ray C. Cunningham Humanities 1964 Eli H. Ferguson Science 1963 Elmer H. Sexauer Science 1963 Esther A. Taskerud Science 1962 George F. Corcoran Science 1962 John Theodore Tripp Science 1961 Albert Leroy Pugsley Science 1961 George Carroll Wallis Science 1960 William U. Gardner Science 1960 Harold M. Crothers Science 1960 George L. Cross Science 1960 Cecil L. Brown Science 1960 Theodore W. Schultz Science 1959 Van Rensselaer Potter Science 1959 Ernest E. Michaels Engineering 1959 Edgar M. Soreng Engineering 1958 George A. Bender Science 1958
Orland E. White Science 1957 Mrs. George Headley Humanities 1957 Donald A. Williams Agriculture 1956 Stephen F. Briggs Engineering 1955 Harry L. Solberg Engineering 1955 Ethel Austin Martin Science 1955 Herbert W. Clarkson Humanities 1955 Guy Lee Boyden Science 1955 Charles L. Coughlin Engineering 1954 Walter Jewett Allen Agriculture 1954 Earl R. Serles Science 1953 Carrold Iverson Science 1953 Clarence E. Robertson Science 1952 Amy Kelly Science 1952 Harvey T. Dunn Fine Arts 1952 Charles Badger Clark Humane Letters 1951 Edgar S. McFadden Science 1950 Frederick A. Coller Science 1949 LeRoy F. Harza Engineering 1949 Raymond Adams Dutcher Science 1948 Frank Osgood Butler Science 1948 Elwood C. Perisho Science 1928 Calvin Coolidge Science 1928 William E. Johnson Science 1923