Honorary Degrees Given at Babson College

Babson College first awarded an Honorary Degree in 1959. In 1994, as part of Babson's 75th Anniversary, members of the pre-World War II classes were awarded honorary Bachelor of Science degrees. The following list includes Babson affiliations with "C" refering to Babson's first academic program, "BSBA" refering to the first degree program, and "BS", "MS" & "MBA" refering to the current academic degrees. "P" refers to honorees who are parents of Babson graduates.

May 16, 2009 Undergraduate Commencement	Ray Kurzweil	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 16, 2009 Undergraduate Commencement	Brian M. Barefoot BSBA 1964 P 2001 Former President Babson College	Doctor of Laws
May 16, 2009 Graduate Commencement	Erik Weihenmayer	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 16, 2009 Graduate Commencement	William F. Markey, Jr. MBA 1964	Doctor of Laws
May 17, 2008 Undergraduate Commencement	Deborah Bial	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 17, 2008 Undergraduate Commencement	Myles Brand	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 17, 2008 Graduate Commencement	Roseanna H. Means	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 17, 2008 Graduate Commencement	Oleg V. Zherebtsov	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 19, 2007 Undergraduate Commencement	Leo I. Higdon, Jr. Former President Babson College	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 19, 2007 Undergraduate Commencement	Estefano E. Isaias, Sr. BSBA1968 P2000 P2002	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 19, 2007 Undergraduate Commencement	William D. Green BS1976 MBA1977	Doctor of Laws
May 19, 2007 Graduate Commencement	Irving W. Rabb	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 19, 2007 Graduate Commencement	Gary Hirschberg	Doctor of Laws
May 20, 2006 Undergraduate Commencement	George Feldenkreis	Doctor of Laws
May 20, 2006 Undergraduate Commencement	Linda Whitlock	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 20, 2006 Graduate Commencement	Lawrence W. Milas BSBA1958, P1990	Doctor of Laws
May 20, 2006 Graduate Commencement	Donna Dubinsky	Doctor of Laws
May 21, 2005 Undergraduate Commencement	Joseph J. Grano, Jr.	Doctor of Laws
May 21, 2005 Graduate Commencement	Ellyn A. McColgan	Doctor of Laws
May 15, 2004 Undergraduate Commencement	Paul Orfalea	Doctor of Laws
May 15, 2004 Undergraduate Commencement	Andronico Luksic BS1978 P2004 P2006	Doctor of Laws
May 15, 2004 Graduate Commencement	Indra K. Nooyi	Doctor of Laws
May 17, 2003 Undergraduate Commencement	Craig R. Benson BS1977	Doctor of Laws
May 17, 2003 Undergraduate Commencement	Lois Silverman	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 17, 2003 Graduate Commencement	James I. Cash, Jr.	Doctor of Laws
May 17, 2003 Graduate Commencement	Clinton A. Petersen C1946 MBA1958 Former Babson Faculty	Doctor of Laws
January 9, 2003 Merrimack, NH	John Hornaday Former Babson Faculty	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 18, 2002 Undergraduate Commencement	Peter M. Black Former Babson Faculty	Doctor of Laws
May 18, 2002 Undergraduate Commencement	R.E Turner	Doctor of Laws
May 18, 2002 Graduate Commencement	Robert K. Kraft	Doctor of Laws
May 19, 2001 Undergraduate Commencement	Dean Kamen	Doctor of Laws
May 19, 2001 Graduate Commencement	Peter W. Bell	Doctor of Laws
May 19, 2001 Graduate Commencement	Marian L. Heard	Doctor of Laws
May 20, 2000 Undergraduate Commencement	Edsel B. Ford BS1973	Doctor of Laws
May 20, 2000 Undergraduate Commencement	Heidi G. Miller	Doctor of Laws
May 20, 2000 Graduate Commencement	Guy Kawasaki	Doctor of Laws
May 15, 1999 Undergraduate Commencement	Oscar Arias Sanchez	Doctor of Laws
May 15, 1999 Undergraduate Commencement	William H. Cruickshank BSBA1949	Doctor of Laws
May 15, 1999 Undergraduate Commencement	William F. Glavin Former President Babson College	Doctor of Laws
May 15, 1999 Graduate Commencement	Katherine L. Babson MBA1977	Doctor of Laws
May 15, 1999 Graduate Commencement	Michael C. Ruettgers	Doctor of Laws
May 16, 1998 Undergraduate Commencement	Arthur Morris Blank BS1963	Doctor of Laws
May 16, 1998 Undergraduate Commencement	Rolf Bloch	Doctor of Laws
May 16, 1998 Undergraduate Commencement	William Timothy O'Brien	Doctor of Laws
May 16, 1998 Graduate Commencement	Frederic C. Hamilton BSBA1948	Doctor of Laws
May 16, 1998 Graduate Commencement	Gail Snowden	Doctor of Laws
May 17, 1997 Undergraduate Commencement	Peggy Charren	Doctor of Laws
May 17, 1997 Undergraduate Commencement	Cecily M. Glavin	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 17, 1997 Undergraduate Commencement	Robert E. Madden	Doctor of Laws
May 17, 1997 Graduate Commencement	Robert M. Rosenberg	Doctor of Laws
May 11, 1996 Undergraduate Commencement	Rudolph A. Crew BS1972	Doctor of Laws
May 11, 1996 Undergraduate Commencement	Charles G. Koch	Doctor of Laws
May 11, 1996 Undergraduate Commencement	Elizabeth Koch	Doctor of Laws
May 11, 1996 Undergraduate Commencement	Peter S. Lynch	Doctor of Laws
May 11, 1996 Graduate Commencement	John H. Muller	Doctor of Laws
May 11, 1996 Graduate Commencement	Thomas S. Murphy	Doctor of Laws
May 13, 1995 Undergraduate Commencement	Fabio Bertarelli	Doctor of Laws
May 13, 1995 Undergraduate Commencement	Constantine B. Simonides	Doctor of Laws
May 13, 1995 Undergraduate Commencement	William F. Weld	Doctor of Laws
May 13, 1995 Graduate Commencement	Percy Barnevik	Doctor of Laws
May 13, 1995 Graduate Commencement	Sherry Poe	Doctor of Laws
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Eliot S. Knowles C1937	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Hollis Nichols C1931	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Thomas R. Henderson C1939	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	William Larkin C1930	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Harold Heberlein C1923	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	John B. Darrow C1939	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Morton C. Treadway, Jr. C1938	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Allan B. McArdle C1937	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Earl W. Seldon C1931	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Frederick S. Mann C1937	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Malcolm W. Ellison C1937	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Robert K. Hebden C1937	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Robert W. Swett C1936	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Edward T. Peabody C1936	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	A. Elwood Marshall C1937	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Paul G. Pfeffer C1936	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	D. Thomas Trigg C1937	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Thomas A. O'Keefe, Jr. C1936 P1966	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Boardman F. Lockwood C1938	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	R. Rossiter Conner C1938	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Arthur D. Van Winkle C1932	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Samuel D. DeForest, Jr. C1937	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Allen T. Shott C1941	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Albert F. Haas C1936	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Walter F. Lovell C1943	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	David R. Porter C1936	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Arthur J. Anderson C1941	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Richard A. Bush C1941	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Bruce C. Edenton C1941 P1975	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	John H. Gilbert, Jr. C1941	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	James Dillion, Jr. C1941	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	B. Howard Metzloff C1941	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	G. Edward Best C1941	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	John A. Van Riper C1941	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	George S. Ackerman C1942	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Richard R. Gunter, Jr. C1942	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	John W. Williamson C1942	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Dean G. Christie C1943	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Frank S. Waterman III C1943	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Calvin A. Hill C1941	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Walter E. Meub, Jr. C1939 P1967	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Culver H. Griffin C1936	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Olan D. Snavely C1935	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	W. Bryson Scott C1934	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Herman R. Donley C1934	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Kenneth Dadson C1934	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Herbert Keith C1933	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Edwin W. Hurd C1943	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Emerson Kirby C1939	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Richard P. Wheeler C1939	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Candler W. Butler, Jr. C1940	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Harry W. Gee, Jr. C1940	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Joseph F. Lagerman, Jr. C1940	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Jack Epstein II C1929	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Lawrence S. Mayers C1940	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Neal Jacobs C1940	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Hugh M. McCracken C1940	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Fred Tod, Jr. C1940	Bachelor of Science
June 4,1994 75th Anniversary Reunion	Seth M. Keller C1939	Bachelor of Science
May 21, 1994 Undergraduate Commencement	Paul Sacher	Doctor of Laws
May 21, 1994 Undergraduate Commencement	Richard J. Snyder BSBA1960	Doctor of Laws
May 21, 1994 Undergraduate Commencement	Yod Jin Uahwatanasakul	Doctor of Laws
May 21, 1994 Undergraduate Commencement	Robert E. Weissman	Doctor of Laws
May 21, 1994 Graduate Commencement	Paul Fireman	Doctor of Laws
May 21, 1994 Graduate Commencement	Harold Price	Doctor of Laws
May 21, 1994 Graduate Commencement	Shoichiro Toyoda	Doctor of Laws
May 22, 1993 Undergraduate Commencement	Nannererl O. Keohane	Doctor of Laws
May 22, 1993 Undergraduate Commencement	Franklin R. Chang-Diaz	Doctor of Laws
May 22, 1993 Graduate Commencement	Senator John F. Kerry	Doctor of Laws
May 23, 1992 Graduate Commencement	Sir John Marks Templeton	Doctor of Laws
May 23, 1992 Graduate Commencement	Junichi Murata MBA1960	Doctor of Laws
May 18, 1991 Undergraduate Commencement	Robert E. Allen	Doctor of Laws
May 18, 1991 Undergraduate Commencement	William R. Dill Former President Babson College	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 18, 1991 Undergraduate Commencement	Laurence Lesser	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 18, 1991 Graduate Commencement	John Sculley	Doctor of Laws
May 19, 1990 Undergraduate Commencement	Charles W. Schmidt	Doctor of Commercial Science
May 19, 1990 Undergraduate Commencement	Anne Hawley	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 19, 1990 Undergraduate Commencement	Franklyn G. Jenifer	Doctor of Laws
May 19, 1990 Graduate Commencement	Francis T. Vincent Jr.	Doctor of Laws
May 20, 1989 Undergraduate Commencement	Dodge D. Morgan	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 20, 1989 Undergraduate Commencement	Charles C. Barton	Doctor of Commercial Science
May 20, 1989 Undergraduate Commencement	Sherry Lee Lansing	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 20, 1989 Graduate Commencement	Thomas J. Watson	Doctor of Laws
May 20, 1989 Graduate Commencement	Major General George H. Akin	Doctor of Public Administration
May 21, 1988 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Peter J. Sprague	Doctor of Laws
May 21, 1988 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Katherine W. Fanning	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 21, 1988 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	K. C. Jones	Doctor of Public Administration
May 21, 1988 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	William S. Kanaga	Doctor of Laws
May 16, 1987 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Robert L. Bartley	Doctor of Laws
May 16, 1987 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Beatrice A. Fitzpatrick	Doctor of Commercial Science
May 16, 1987 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Ichiro Ueno	Doctor of Laws
May 17, 1986 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Roger A. Enrico BS1965	Doctor of Laws
May 17, 1986 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Marisa Bellisario	Doctor of Laws
May 17, 1986 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Sybil C. Mobley	Doctor of Commercial Science
May 18, 1985 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	C. Roland Christensen	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 18, 1985 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Ralph Z. Sorenson Former President Babson College	Doctor of Laws
May 18, 1985 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Paula Stern	Doctor of Commercial Science
May 19, 1984 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Edith Y. Babson	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 19, 1984 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	John M. Daigle	Doctor of Commercial Science
May 19, 1984 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Rosabeth Moss Kanter	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 19, 1984 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Bernard J. O'Keefe	Doctor of Commercial Science
May 19, 1984 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Lord Sieff of Brimpton	Doctor of Laws
May 21, 1983 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Carolyn Shaw Bell	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 21, 1983 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	John S. Day	Doctor of Commercial Science
May 21, 1983 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Bruce D. Henderson	Doctor of Laws
May 21, 1983 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Natalie S.Curtis	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 21, 1983 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Philip S. Weld	Doctor of Laws
May 21, 1982 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Sarah Caldwell	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 21, 1982 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Alfred D. Chandler Jr.	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 21, 1982 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Henry A. Kriebel Former President and Professor Babson College	Doctor of Laws
May 21, 1982 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Frank A. Petito	Doctor of Commerical Science
May 21, 1982 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Jane C. Pfeiffer	Doctor of Commerical Science
May 17, 1981 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Lewis E. Lehrman	Doctor of Laws
May 17, 1981 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Thomas L. Phillips	Doctor of Laws
May 17, 1981 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Muriel Sutherland Snowden	Doctor of Laws
May 17, 1981 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	John William Ward	Doctor of Laws
May 17, 1980 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Robert O. Anderson	Doctor of Laws
May 17, 1980 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Jarvis Farley	Doctor of Laws
May 17, 1980 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Donald M. Kendall	Doctor of Laws
May 17, 1980 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	H. Bradford Washburn	Doctor of Laws
May 19, 1979 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Catherine B. Cleary	Doctor of Laws
May 19, 1979 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Maynard H.Jackson	Doctor of Laws
May 19, 1979 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	G. William Miller	Doctor of Laws
May 20, 1978 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Maestro Arthur Fiedler	Doctor of Laws
May 20, 1978 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Joan D. Manley	Doctor of Laws
May 20, 1978 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Howard W. Johnson	Doctor of Laws
May 21, 1977 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Malcolm S. Forbes	Doctor of Journalism
May 21, 1977 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Doris Fleischman Bernays	Doctor of Laws
May 21, 1977 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Edward L. Bernays	Doctor of Laws
May 21, 1977 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	John T. Dunlop	Doctor of Laws
May 15, 1976 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	George E. Johnson	Doctor of Laws
May 15, 1976 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Robert O. F Bixby	Doctor of Laws
May 15, 1976 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Richard D. Hill	Doctor of Laws
May 15, 1976 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Marion S. Kellog	Doctor of Laws
May 17, 1975 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Abram T. Collier	Doctor of Literature
May 18, 1974 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Bennett E. Bidwell	Doctor of Laws
May 18, 1974 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Ethel Paine Gorton Storm	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 18, 1974 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Phyllis Burke Davis	Doctor of Laws
April 24, 1974, Founder's Day	Leonard Woodcock	Doctor of Laws
May 19, 1973 Undergraduate Commencement	Llyod W. Elston	Doctor of Laws
May 19, 1973 Graduate Commencement	Richard Maurice Nichols	Doctor of Laws
May 19, 1973 Graduate Commencement	John A. Grounouski	Doctor of Laws
May 20, 1972 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Vernon R. Alden	Doctor of Laws
April 25, 1972 , Founders Day	Jack Joseph Valenti	Doctor of Laws
May 23, 1971 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	John H. Knowles	Doctor of Laws
June 14, 1970 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Senator Edward M. Kennedy	Doctor of Laws
April 9, 1970, Founder's Day	Mary Wells Lawrence	Doctor of Laws
June 15, 1969 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Eli Goldston	Doctor of Laws
June 16, 1968 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Manuel F. Cohen	Doctor of Laws
June 18, 1967 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Chauncey W. Cook	Doctor of Laws
October 10, 1967, Founder's Day	Robert E. Linnell, Sr.	Doctor of Laws
October 10, 1967, Founder's Day	Daniel F. Gerber C1920	Doctor of Laws
June 12, 1966 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Sol M. Linowitz	Doctor of Laws
June 13, 1965 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Lee A. Iacocca	Doctor of Laws
October 27, 1965, Founder's Day	W. Randolph Burgess	Doctor of Laws
June 15, 1964 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Willis J. Winn	Doctor of Laws
October 19, 1964, Founder's Day	General Alfred M. Gruenther	Doctor of Laws
June 17, 1963 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Lt. General James M. Gavin	Doctor of Laws
June 18, 1962 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Raymond J. Saulnier	Doctor of Laws
February 9, 1962, Inauguration of Henry A. Kriebel	Luther Hartwell Hodges	Doctor of Laws
June 19, 1961 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Senator Leverett Saltonstall	Doctor of Laws
June 13, 1960 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Erwin D. Canham	Doctor of Laws
June 22, 1959 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement	Ewan Clague	Doctor of Laws