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CHP and CAS Honorary Degree Recipients 2009
Dr. Rita Colwell, will be the Commencement Speaker for the 2009 CAS and CHP Commencement Ceremony and will be receiving an Honorary Doctor of Science.
For a biography of Dr. Colwell and other past speakers please go to the Commencement Speaker page.
| Previous Honorary Degree Recipients | ||
| 2008 | Former Governor John McHernan, Doctor of Humane Letters Dr. Victor McKusick, Honorary Doctor of Science Vincent McKusick, Honorary Doctor of Laws | |
| 2007 |
Neil Rolde, Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 2006 |
Paul Wescott, Doctor of Laws | |
| 2005 |
Claire Van Ummersen, Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 2004 | Ambassador Aziz Mekouar, Doctor of Laws | |
| 2003 | Ambassador Christopher R. Thomas Honorary Doctor of Laws | |
| 2002 | Daniel Wathen, speaker, Doctor of Laws Bettsanne Holmes, Doctor of Laws Wilma Redman, Doctor of Laws | |
| 2001 | Congressman Tom Allen (speaker), U.S. Congressman, Doctor of Humane Letters Rev. Franklin Littell, Doctor of Humane Letters Owen Wells, Doctor of Laws | |
| 2000 | Jack S. Ketchum, Doctor of Humane Letters William Cotter, Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1999 | Susan Collins (speaker), U.S. Senator from Maine, Doctor of Laws Laurence Ianni, Ph.D., Doctor of Humane Letters Si Kahn, Ph.D., Doctor of Health Sciences | |
| 1998 | Admiral Jack Hayes, Doctor of Laws | |
| 1997 | University Campus Marvin Wachman, Ph.D. (speaker), Chancellor, Temple University, Doctor of Humane Letters Rev. James Ronan, Ph.D., Doctor of Humane Letters Westbrook College Campus Patrick Swygert (speaker), Doctor of Humane Letters Mary Grefe, Doctor of Laws | |
| 1996 |
Olympia Snowe (speaker), U.S. Senator from Maine, Doctor of Laws | |
| 1995 | Judith Isaacson (speaker), Holocaust Survivor, Doctor of Humane Letters Mary Sarton, Author/Poet, Doctor of Humane Letters Charlene Rydell, State Legislator, Doctor of Laws Alexander Theroux, Author, Doctor of Humane Letters Sister Priscille Roy, Missonary, Doctor of Laws | |
| 1994 | Rev. John Brooks (speaker), Doctor of Humane Letters Antonine Maillet, Ph.D., Doctor of Laws | |
| 1993 | Thomas Andrews (speaker), Doctor of Laws Louis Rabineau, Ed.D. , Doctor of Humane Letters Robert Gardiner, Ph.D., Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1992 | Dorothy Cotton (speaker), Doctor of Humane Letters James Williams, Jr., Doctor of Humane Letters Rudolfo Anaya, Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1991 | Marie Gadsden, Ph.D., Doctor of Humane Letters Nancy T. Watts, Ph.D. , Doctor of Humane Letters Honorable Robert E. White, Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1990 | George Mitchell (speaker), Doctor of Humane Letters Gene Leroy Schwilck, Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1989 | Wilson Hurley, L.L.D., Doctor of Humane Letters Andrew McGuire (speaker), Doctor of Humane Letters A. Poulin, Jr., Doctor of Humane Letters Gavin Ruotolo, Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1988 | Dr. David Matthews (speaker), Doctor of Humane Letters Dr. Audrey Cohen, Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1987 | Marian Wright Edelman Daniel B. Merriam, Master of Humane Letters Matina Souretis Horner, Ph.D., Doctor of Humane Letters Dodge Morgan (speaker), Doctor of Humane Letters Anthony Gelardi & Paul Gelardi Doctor of Economics James L. Moody Jr., Doctor of Economics | |
| 1986 | Wilma Pearl Mankiller (speaker), Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1985 | Associate Justice Caroline D. Glassman, Doctor of Laws Ms. Eunice Spooner, Master of Humane Letters | |
| 1984 | Governor Joseph E. Brennan (speaker), Doctor of Economics Francis T. Spencer, Doctor of Economics Marguerite Kyte, Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1983 | Henry W. Aplington, Jr., Ph.D., Doctor of Science Arthur Elliott Levine (speaker), Doctor of Humane Letters Conrad Grondin, Doctor of Economics | |
| 1982 | Geoffrey Peter Faux, Doctor of Humane Letters Bruce Hangen, Degree of Fine Arts Dr. Kingsley Kay, Doctor of Science James Russell Wiggins (speaker), Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1981 | Honorable William S. Cohen (speaker), Doctor of Laws Elsa Marie Meder, Ph.D., Doctor of Humane Letters Charles W. Sauter, II, D.O., Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1980 | William J. Caldwell (speaker), Doctor of Humane Letters Honorable Elmont S. Tyndale, Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1979 | F. Stephen Larrabee, Ph.D. (speaker), Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1978 | Benjamin M. Ziegler, Ph.D. (speaker), Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1977 | Mary D. Merrill, Distinguished Service Award, (No Honorary Degree Offered) | |
| 1976 | Robert J. Lurtsema, B.S., Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1975 | Dr. Scott Nearing (speaker), Doctor of Humane Letters William F. Kearns Jr., Doctor of Public Service | |
| 1974 | Robert E. L. Strider, Ph.D., President of Colby College, Doctor of Humane Letters The Honorable William B. Hathaway, U.S. Senator from Maine, Doctor of Laws Reverend Paul C. Reinert (speaker), President of St. Louis University, Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1973 | Rev. Robert J. White, Msgr., Doctor of Laws The Honorable Edward Thaxter Gignoux, Doctor of Laws Dr. Kenneth E. Eble (speaker), Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1972 | Dr. Richard Weigle(speaker), President of St. John's University, Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1971 | The Honorable Kenneth M. Curtis (speaker), Doctor of Laws The Honorable Thomas J. Paolino, Assoc. Justice of Supreme Court of Rhode Island, Doctor of Laws William S. Huber, Professor Emeritus at Rhode Island School of Design, Doctor of Laws | |
| 1970 | Dr. Edward Y. Blewett, President of Westbrook Junior College, Doctor of Laws Sterling Dow, Ph.D., Professor of Archeology at Harvard College, Doctor of Humane Letters The Honorable James L. Farmer (speaker), Asst. Secretary, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1969 | The Honorable Frank Licht (speaker), Governor of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation, Doctor of Laws Rt. Rev. Frederick Barton Wolf, Episcopal Diocese of Maine, Doctor of Laws Mr. Waldemar A. Roebuck, President of North American Federation of the Third Order of St. Francis, Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1968 | Mr. Edwin D. Canham (speaker), Editor-in-Chief, Christian Science Monitor, Doctor of Laws Rt. Rev. Msgr Adrien G. Verrette, Pastor, St. Georgie's Church, Doctor of Humane Letters Mr. Carl Burton Stokes, Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, Doctor of Laws | |
| 1967 | The Most Rev. Peter Leo Gerety, Coadjutor Bishop of Portland, Doctor of Laws Dr. Donald M. MacKenzie (speaker), President of Park College, Doctor of Laws | |
| 1966 | Mr. Lionel B. Kavanagh, President of Standard Tool Company, Doctor of Science Rev. Bernard Haring (speaker), Department of Religious Studies, Brown University, Doctor of Laws | |
| 1965 | Mr. J. Henri Goguen, President General of L'Union St-Jean-Baptiste d'Amerique, Doctor of Laws Most Rev. Ernest Primeau (speaker), Bishop of Manchester, Doctor of Laws Rev. Sister M. Carmel Therriault, President of St. Joseph's College, Doctor of Education Bro. Cajetan J. B. Baumann, O.F.M., Doctor of Science Mr. Harold D. Carroll, Esq., Doctor of Laws Very Rev. Luke M. Chabot, O.F.M. Minister Provincial, Doctor of Laws | |
| 1964 | Rt. Rev. Msgr. Armand E. Cyr, Holy Rosary Rectory, Doctor of Education Dr. John W. McDeVitt (speaker), Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, Doctor of Laws | |
| 1963 | Rev. Georges-Albert Laplante, O.F.M. Doctor of Letters Dr. Robert H. McCarn Doctor of Letters Dr. Philip Lambert (speaker) | |
| 1962 | Most Rev. Daniel J. Feeney, Bishop of Portland, Doctor of Laws Rev. Fernand Porter, O.F.M., Doctor of Letters | |
| 1961 | Joseph E. Sullivan, Sr., Doctor of Letters Senator Edmund S. Muskie, Doctor of Law Dr. Joseph R. Larochelle, Doctor of Letters Rev. Edward V. Stanford (speaker), Doctor of Education | |
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