Lafayette College Honorary Degree Recipients 1995-2007

* Baccalaureate Speaker
**Commencement Speaker

2007
**Michael Beschloss, historian, author, and presidential historian
*Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Prof. of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister, the Memorial Church, and Prof. of Arts & Sciences and of Divinity
Dr. Michael Moskow ’59, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Faith Ringgold, acclaimed artist and author
Lou Reda, documentary filmmaker, Executive Producer, Lou Reda Productions

2006
**Dr. Deborah Bial, Founder and Executive Director of the Posse Foundation
Dr. Gregory Farrington, President of Lehigh University
Dr. John Hope Franklin, professor emeritus of History at Duke University
Mulgrew Miller, world class jazz musician

2005
Dorothy Gulbenkian Blaney, president of Cedar Crest College
Brian P. Lamb, president, chief executive officer, and founder of C-SPAN
**Thomas Joseph Ridge, former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Governor of Pennsylvania
Barbara S. Rothkopf, wife of President Rothkopf
Arthur J. Rothkopf, president of Lafayette College 1994-2005

2004
*Dr. Ali A. Mazrui, director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies and Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities
LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr. M.D., surgeon, cancer researcher, former President of the American Cancer Society
Shelley Brown, Executive Director, The State Theater Center for the Arts
**Edward G. Rendell, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

2003
*Rebecca S. Chopp, Colgate University’s 15th president, former dean of Yale Univ.
Divinity School
Pastor Fred Davis, Shiloh Baptist Church, Easton
Brent David Glass ‘69, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American
History
**Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corporation of New York, and former
president of Brown University and New York Public Library

2002
*Margaret A. Farley, Scholar, Yale Divinity School
Robert A. Freedberg, Justice, Northampton County, PA
Aaron O. Hoff, (1808-1902)
Charles E. Hugel ’51, retired chairman, Asea Brown Boveri, Inc. (Lafayette Medal for
Distinguished Service)(received honorary degree in 1986)
**James C. Lehrer, journalist, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

2001
*Rabbi Leonard I. Beerman, founding Rabbi of Leo Baeck Temple, Los Angeles, Calif.
Charles C. Gillispie, Professor of History of Science Emeritus, Princeton University
**Doris Kearns Goodwin, presidential historian, author, television commentator
Alan R. Griffith ’64, Vice Chairman, The Bank of New York, Chairman-elect,
Lafayette College
Franklin D. Raines, Chairman and CEO, Fannie Mae Corp., former Director, OMB

2000
Michael H. Danjczek, President and Director, Children’s Home of Easton
Marcia D. Greenberger, founder and co-president National Women’s Law Center in
Washington, D.C.
*Peter J. Paris, educator, Princeton Theological Seminary
**George F. Will, columnist, TV commentator

1999
**Maya Angelou, educator, Wake Forest University
Lucy Wilson Benson, President Benson & Associates, Amherst, Mass., former Under
Secretary of State
*William H. Willimon, dean of the Chapel and professor, Duke University

1998
**The Hon. George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st President of the United States
Eugene Morris DeLoatch ’59, Founder and Dean, School of Engineering, Morgan
State University
*The Rev. Theodore W. Loder, Pastor, First United Methodist Church of Germantown
Ann Roth, Academy Award winning costume designer
Albert L. Ueltschi, President & CEO, FlightSafety International Inc. and Pres./CEO
of Orbis International

1997
**François Bujon de l'Estang, Ambassador of France
The Hon. Thomas F. Goldsmith ’63, Mayor of Easton, PA
Richard S. Gurin, Pres. & CEO, Binney & Smith
*Delores R. Leckey, Exec. Dir. of the Secretariat for Family, Laity, Women, and Youth
of the National Council of Catholic Bishops
George Veronis ’50, Davis Prof. of Geophysics and Applied Mathematics, Yale
University

1996
**William H. Cosby, Jr., actor & entertainer
Delano E. Lewis, president & CEO, National Public Radio
Jay L. Parini ’70, writer, poet and novelist, professor, Middlebury College
Judith S. Rodin, President, University of Pennsylvania
*David N. Saperstein, director, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism

1995
*Robert M. Brown, Prof. Emeriti, Pacific School of Religion
Frances R. Hesselbein, management consultant, Pres. & CEO, Peter Drucker Foundation
David L. Lewis, historian, professor Rutgers University
**David McCullough P’80, historian, author
Dwight A. Sangrey ’62, President, Oregon Grad. Inst. of Sci. & Tech.