Henry Allen Moe Prize for Catalogs of Distinction in the Arts

By Speakers and Honorary Caste Recipients

The following is a listing of by honorary degree recipients and Founders Day speakers. The former are designated by the degree they received.

1888

Susan J. Cunningham, Science - Higher co-founder and longtime math and astronomy professor

1889

Arthur Beardsley, Ph.D. - Swarthmore professor of civil and mechanical engineering
Isaac Sharpless, Laws - president, Haverford College (1887-1917)

1890

Olivia Rodham, A.B. - botanist and College librarian

1897

Elizabeth Powell Bond, One thousand.A. - Swarthmore'south first Dean of Women (1890-1906)

1903

Isaac Hallowell Clothier, M.A. - co-founder, Strawbridge & Clothier department store
John Kelvey Richards '75, Laws - U.Due south. Solicitor General, Circuit Approximate, Sixth Judicial Excursion
Joseph Wharton, Laws - industrialist and founder, Academy of Pennsylvania Wharton Schoolhouse

1906

Sarah March Nowell, M.A. - College librarian (1888-1906)

1909

Alexander Cummins '89, Messages

1911

David Newlin Barbarous, Laws - Judge, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
William Plumer Potter, Laws
Wilson One thousand. Powell, Laws - prominent New York attorney
John M. Shrigley, M.A. - president, Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades

1912

William Hyde Appleton, Laws - president, Swarthmore College (1889-91)

1918

Isaac H. Clothier H '03, Laws - co-founder, Strawbridge & Clothier department store
Robert M. Janney, Thou.A. - onetime president, Philadelphia Stock Exchange and director, Provident Life & Trust Co.
Ellis Pusey Passmore '93, M.A. - president, Bank of North America & Trust Co.
Edgar Fahs Smith, Letters - notable chemist and educator

1919

Alexander Mitchell Palmer '91, Laws - U.Southward. Chaser Full general
William C. Sproul '91, Laws - governor of Pennsylvania (1919-23)

1920

Herbert Clark Hoover, Laws - administered U.S. and European relief services during WWI
Edward Martin '78, Science - professor of surgery, University of Pennsylvania
Edward Wilson '91, M.A.

1921

Morris 50. Clothier 'xc, Laws - merchant and philanthropist
Joseph Swain, Laws - president, Swarthmore College (1902-21)

1922

Thomas Atkinson Jenkins '87, Letters - philologist and educator, University of Chicago
Rufus M. Jones, Laws - Quaker historian and co-founder and first chairman, American Friends Service Committee
M. Carey Thomas, Laws - offset dean and 2nd president, Bryn Mawr College

1923

David Barker Rushmore '94, Science - chief engineer, General Electric Co.
Edward Brinton Temple '91, Applied science - primary engineer, Pennsylvania Railroad
Henry Chandlee Turner '93, Engineering - founder, Turner Construction Co.

1924

William C. 50. Eglin, Science - famed electric engineer and five-term president, Franklin Establish
Josiah Harmar Penniman, Letters - president and provost, University of Pennsylvania (1923-26)

1926

John William Graham, Messages - Swarthmore'due south first Howard Grand. Jenkins chair of Quaker history and research
Charles Francis Jenkins, 1000.A. - Quaker historian

1927

Vincent Massey - first Canadian minister to U.Southward. (1926-30)

1928

Max Mason - mathematical physicist and president, University of Chicago (1925-28)

1929

Lou Henry Hoover, Letters - president, Girl Scouts of America and vice-president, National Amateur Able-bodied Federation
Howard McClenahan, Laws - secretary, Franklin Institute (1925 - 35)
Marion Edwards Park, Laws - president, Bryn Mawr College (1922-42)
William F.G. Swann, Science - managing director, Bartol Research Institute (1927-59)

1931

James Rowland Angell - psychologist and president, Yale University (1921-37)

1932

Jane Addams, Laws - founder, Hull House and winner, 1931 Nobel Peace Prize

1933

Frances Wylie, Laws

1934

Abraham Flexner, Laws - commencement manager, Found for Avant-garde Study at Princeton

1935

Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Messages - prolific author who popularized Montessori teaching method in U.South.
Rufus M. Jones - Quaker historian and co-founder and commencement chairman, American Friends Service Committee
William Eastward. Sugariness 'xc, Laws - philanthropist and governor of Colorado (1923-25)

1936

Wilbur Fifty. Cross - governor of Connecticut (1931-39)

1937

Detlev W. Bronk '20, Scientific discipline - professor of biophysics at University of Pennsylvania (1929-49)
Alan Valentine '21, Laws - president, University of Rochester (1935 - 50)
Raymond Walters, Laws - president, Academy of Cincinnati (1932 - 51)
Joseph H. Willets 'eleven, Laws - economist and dean, Wharton School

1938

Albert Einstein - winner, 1921 Nobel Prize in physics (in a higher place, with President Frank Aydelotte)

1939

Philip Henry Kerr, Laws - British Ambassador to U.S.

1939

Eduard Benes - president, Czechoslovakia (1935-38)

1940

Frank Aydelotte, Humane Letters - president, Swarthmore College (1921-xl)
Nora Waln Osland-Hill 'xix, M.A. - prolific author and foreign war correspondent

1941

Rufus M. Jones - Quaker historian and co-founder and first chairman, American Friends Service Committee

1942

Thomas Southward. Gates, Laws - president, University of Pennsylvania (1930-44)
Milo R. Perkins - New Deal official
Edith Wilder Scott '96, M.A. - horticulturalist
John C. Wister, Science - horticulturalist and first director, Scott Arboretum

1943

Felix Morley - winner, 1936 Pulitzer Prize and president, Haverford College (1940-45)

1944

Dorothy Canfield Fisher - prolific author who popularized Montessori teaching method in U.S.

1945

Brand Blanshard - philosopher and writer

1946

Clarence Streit -journalist and noted Atlanticist
George Arthur Walton, Laws - headmaster, George School (1912-48)

1947

Brand Blanshard, Letters - philosopher and writer
Thomas B. McCabe '15, Laws - president and CEO, Scott Paper Company (1927-67), chairman, Federal Reserve Board (1948-51) and longtime Swarthmore lath fellow member
Harold E. Stassen, Laws - national politician who helped write U.Due north. Charter
Harold C. Urey - winner, 1934 Nobel Prize in chemistry

1948

Clair Wilcox - economist and Swarthmore kinesthesia member (1927-68)

1949

Victor L. Butterfield - president, Wesleyan Academy (1942-67)

1950

Anna Cox Brinton, Laws - managing director, Pendle Hill (1936-56)
James B. Conant, Laws - and ambassador, Manhattan Project and president, Harvard University (1933-53)
David Grand. Dennison '21, Scientific discipline - physicist who discovered the spin of the proton
Raymond Blaine Fosdick, Laws - lawyer, public official, and president, Rockefeller Foundation
Clarence East. Pickett, Laws - executive secretary, American Friends Service Committee (1929-50)
Charles C. Toll '34, Science - pharmacist and educator
Samuel R.1000. Reynolds '27, Science - anatomist

1951

Howard C. Johnson '96, Laws - State Department and Ford Foundation official
Trygve Lie - offset U.North. Secretary-General

1952

Clark Kerr '32, Laws - esteemed educator and first chancellor, UC-Berkeley (1952-58)
Patrick M. Malin, Laws - Swarthmore economics professor and executive managing director, American Civil Liberties Union (1950-63)
Jane Palen Rushmore '83, Letters - general secretarial assistant, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (1911-45)

1953

John W. Nason, Laws - president, Swarthmore College (1940-53)

1954

Henry J. Cadbury, Laws - religion scholar and co-founder, American Friends Service Committee, who accustomed its 1947 Nobel Peace Prize
Elmer Davis, Humane Letters - national print and broadcast announcer
James A. Michener '29, Humane Letters - winner, 1947 Pulitzer Prize
Philip D. Reed, Laws - president and CEO, General Electric Co. (1940-42, 1945-58)

1955

Hugo Lafayette Blackness, Laws - Supreme Courtroom justice
Paul H. Douglas, Laws - economist, social activist, and U.S. Senator
Amos Jenkins Peaslee '07, Laws - U.S. Ambassador to Australia (1953-56)

1956

Frank. Due west. Abrams, Laws - chairman, Standard Oil Co. who in 1953 established the Council for Financial Aid to Pedagogy
Katherine E. McBride, Laws - president, Bryn Mawr College (1942-seventy)
Irving S. Olds, Laws - chairman, U.Due south. Steel, who joined in 1953 the Council for Financial Aid to Education
Gilbert F. White, Laws - geographer and ecologist
Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr., Laws - U.S. district court gauge

1957

Clement Grand. Biddle, Sr. '96, Laws - merchant, philanthropist, and Swarthmore board fellow member (1927-l)
H. Jermain Creighton, Scientific discipline - Swarthmore chemistry professor
Lord Geoffrey Crowther, Laws - chairman and editor, The Economist
Marion Bayard Folsom, Laws - Kodak executive and cabinet official for presidents Roosevelt and Eisenhower
Elation Forbush, Laws - author and Quaker historian

1958

Arthur F. Burns, Laws - economist and president, National Bureau of Economic Research (1957-67)
Frank Porter Graham, Laws - president, Univ. of North Carolina (1930-49), U.S. Senator (1949-50), and U.N. representative
Andrew Wyeth, Fine Art - renowned painter
Jessamyn West McPherson, Letters - prolific author known for short story collections
George Swift Schairer '34, Engineering - aerodynamics chief at Boeing who developed the B-17 and B-52 bombers and the first passenger jet, among others

1959

Gaylord P. Harnwell, Laws - president, University of Pennsylvania (1953-70)
Devereux Colt Josephs, Laws - director, Council on Foreign Relations (1951-58)
Henry Allen Moe, Laws - starting time president, Guggenheim Foundation (1925-63)
Robert Penn Warren, Humane Letters - winner, Pulitzer Prize in 1947, 1957, and 1979
Wolfgang Köhler, Scientific discipline - co founder, Gestalt psychology, and Swarthmore professor (1935-58)

1960

Westward. Curtis Bok, Humane Letters - Pennsylvania Supremem Courtroom justice and writer
Milton S. Eisenhower, Laws - president, Pennsylvania Land (1950-56) and Johns Hopkins (1956 - 67) Universities
Douglas Bush, Letters - scholar, literary historian, and educator
Martin Schwarzchild, Science - astronomer whose work explained the existence of giant stars

1961

Werner Jaeger, Humane Letters - classicist best known for studies of Hellenic Greeks
Ralph Jackson Bakery '07, Laws specialist in trust and corporation constabulary at Harvard University
Crawford H. Greenewalt, Laws - president, East.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (1948-67)

1962

Constantinos A. Doxiadis, Laws - influential architect and urban planner
Richard H. McFeely '27, Laws - headmaster, George School (1948-66)
Hilton S. Read, Laws - founded program for foreign medical schoolhouse graduates at community hospitals in the United States
Charlotte Moore Sitterly '20, Science - physicist accalimed for her assay of solar and atomic spectra

1963

Kermit Gordon '38, Laws - economist who served in various regime positions
James A. Perkins '34, Laws - president, Cornell Academy (1963-69)
Alfred H. Williams, Laws - president, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (1941-58) and dean, Wharton School
Charles Hard Townes, Science - winner, 1964 Nobel Prize in physics

1964

W.H. Auden, Humane Letters - winner, 1948 Pulitzer Prize and member, Swarthmore faculty (1942-45)
Lyndon B. Johnson, Laws - U.South. president (1963-69)
John Jay McCloy, Laws - chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank (1953-lx) and the Ford Foundation (1958-65)
Hermann J. Muller, Science - winner, 1948 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
Gunnar Myrdal, Laws - political economist, sociologist, and U.Northward. and Swedish regime official
Alexander C. Purdy, Laws - New Testament scholar and dean, Hartford Seminary Foundation (1954-60)
U Thant, Laws - U.N. secretarial assistant-full general, (1961-71)

1965

Bertha von Moschzisker, Fine Arts - director, Philadelphia Print Guild and curator of prints, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
C. Canby Balderston, Laws - governor, Federal Reserve Lath (1954-66) and president, Leeds and Lippincott Co.
Roy Wilkins, Laws - executive director and executive secretary, NAACP (1955-77)
Elliott Carter, Music - winner, 1960 and 1973 Pulitzer Prize
Christian B. Anfinsen '37, Science - winner, 1972 Nobel Prize in chemistry

1966

Colin W. Bong, Laws - executive secretary, American Friends Service Committee (1963-68)
Richard Clarkson Bail '31, Laws - civic leader and president, John Wanamaker's (1950-68)
Eugene P. Wigner, Science - winner, 1963 Nobel Prize in physics

1967

Evan H. Turner, Laws - director, Philadelphia Museum of Fine art (1964-80)
Kenneth E. Boulding, Laws - advocate of normative economic science and the integration of the social sciences
Rosamund Cross, Laws - head, Baldwin School (1941-70)
William W. Scranton, Laws - governor of Pennsylvania (1963-67) and U.South. ambasaador to the U.Northward. (1967-77)
Claude C. Smith 'fourteen, Laws - prominent lawyer and chair, Swarthmore Board (1952-66)

1968

John King Fairbank, Laws - influential Chinese studies scholar and educator
Albert Branson Maris, Laws - estimate, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tertiary Excursion (1938-58)
Howard Charles Petersen, Laws - expert in international economic science and trade who served in the administrations of four presidents and CEO, Allegiance-Philadelphia Trust Co. (1952-77)
William C.H. Prentice '37, Laws - psychology professor and dean, Swarthmore College, and president,Wheaton College (1962-75)
Rev. Leon H. Sullivan, Laws - civil rights advocate, anti-apartheid activist, and writer, Sullivan Principles

1969

Milton Byron Babbitt, Music - composer and leading proponent of serialism, a compositional system that uses mathematical techniques
H. Thomas Hallowell, Jr. '29, Laws - inventor and president, Standard Pressed Steel Co. (1951-86)
Ernst Kitzinger, Humane Messages - influential historian of Byzantine, early Christian, and early on medieval art
Jonathan Evans Rhoads, Scientific discipline - pioneer in the development of total parenteral nutrition and chief of general surgery, University of Pennsylvania (1959-72)
Edgar Trevor Williams, Humane Letters - pro-vice Chancellor, University of Oxford (1968-lxxx) and editor, Lexicon of National Biography

1970

A. Noam Chomsky, Humane Letters - linguist and social/political theorist
John Wainwright Evans, Jr. '32, Science - astrophysicist and beginning director, National Solar Observatory (1952-74)
Clarence R. Moll, Laws - president, Widener University (1959-81)
R. Stewart Rauch, Jr., Laws - civic leader and president, Philadelphia Saving Fund Society (1955-71)
Barbara Weisberger, Humane Letters - founder and artistic director, Pennsylvania Ballet Co. (1962-82)

1971

Russell Meiggs, Humane Letters - classicist and fellow, Balliol College at Oxford (1945-1970)
Henry S. Reuss, Laws - Wisconsin congressman (1955-83) who introduced first House legislation to establish the Peace Corps

1972

Eleanor Stabler Clarke '18, Humane Messages - fellow member, Swarthmore Board of Managers (1935-71)
Richardson Dilworth, Laws - civic reformer and mayor of Philadelphia (1955-62)
Howard 1000. Temin '55, Science - winner, 1975 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine

1973

Boyd T. Barnard '17, Laws - philanthropist and partner, president and/or chairman of Jackson-Cross Co. (1920-70)
Martin A. Pomerantz, Science - physicist and director, Bartol Research Foundation (1959-87)

1974

Eleanor Flexner '30, Humane Letters - women's rights historian
Richard Wall Lyman '47, Laws - president, Stanford Academy (1970-lxxx)
Andrew J. Young, Jr., Laws - Georgia congressman and civil rights leader

1975

William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr., Laws - public servant and civil rights and corporate attorney
Michael S. Dukakis '55, Laws - governor, Massachusetts (1974-78, 1982-1990)
Philip T. Sharples '10, Laws - mining executive and philanthropist
Ruth Patrick, Scientific discipline - founder and chair, Environmental Research Division at the University of Natural Sciences (1947-1973)
East. Raymond Wilson, Humane Letters - founder, Friends Committee on National Legislation

1976

David Baltimore 'threescore, Science - winner, 1975 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
Christopher F. Edley, Laws - president, United Negro Higher Fund (1973-1985)
Alice Mitchell Rivlin, Laws - economist and first director, Congressional Budget Function (1975-83)
Nancy Grace Roman '46, Scientific discipline - main, Astronomy and Relativity Programs at NASA (1960-79)
Natalie Hinderas, Music - classical pianist and pioneer in research and performance of music by black composers

1977

Howard Sinclair Turner '33, Laws - president and chairman, Turner Construction Co. (1965-78)
Mary B. Newman 'thirty, Laws - Massachusetts state representative
Elise Bjorn-Hansen Boulding, Humane Letters - sociologist and co-founder, International Peace Research Asso.
James B. Pritchard, Humane Letters - archaeologist and Old Testament scholar
Courtland D. Perkins '35, Technology - pioneer in the field of in-flight exam analysis of shipping stability

1978

Edward K. Cratsley, Laws - Swarthmore vice president for finance (1951-1978)
Paul N. Ylvisaker, Laws - noted urban center planner, government official, foundation executive, and educator
Gerard K. O'Neill '50, Science - physicist who invented the colliding-beam storage ring and a leading advocate of space colonization.
Maxine Frank Singer '52, Science - biochemist and president, Carnegie Institution (1988-2002)
Margaret Due east. Kuhn, Humane Letters - founder, Gray Panthers

1979

Sadie Tanner Mosell Alexander, Laws - lawyer and civil rights abet
Stephen G. Cary, Laws - peace activist and caput, American Friends Service Commission (1979-91)
N. Bruce Hannay '42, Scientific discipline - chemist, physicist, and vice presdient, Bell Labs (1973-82)
William Hardy McNeill, Humane Letters - influential historian

1980

Marian Wright Edelman, Laws - social activist and founder, Children's Defense Fund
Carl Levin '56, Laws - U.S. Senator from Michigan (1978- present)
Renoo Suvarnsit '47, Laws - secretary general, National Economical Evolution Board of Thailand
James Tobin, Laws - winner, 1981 Nobel Prize in economics
J. Peter Schickele '57, Music - composer, musician, satirist, and founder, P.D.Q. Bach

1981

Margaret Hope Bacon, Humane Messages - author, activist, and Quaker historian
Henry Max Hoenigswald, Humane Messages - influential linguist
Eugene 1000. Lang '38, Laws - entrepreneur and founder, I Take A Dream Foundation
Willis D. Weatherford, Jr., Laws - Swarthmore economics professor (1948-64) and president, Berea College (1967-84)

1982

Ernesta Drinker Ballard, Laws - women'southward rights advocate and managing director, Pennsylvania Horticultural Gild (1963-81)
Katherine Merrill Lindsley Camp 'twoscore, Laws - national president (1967-71) and international president (1974-80), Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Howard A. Schneiderman '48, Science - developmental biologist, educator, and chief scientist and senior vice-president for research and development, Monsanto Corp. (1979-90)

1983

Julien Cornell '30, Humane Messages - chaser and expert on legal issues regarding conscientious objection and Civilian Public Service
Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre, Humane Messages - influential philosopher
Margaret Byrd Rawson '23, Humane Letters - sociologist, psychologist, and expert on dsylexia
Ellen Ash Peters '51, Laws - first woman justice and later on primary justice, Connecticut Supreme Court (1984-96)

1984

Nannerl Overholser Keohane, Laws - president, Wellesley College (1981-93) and Duke Academy (1993-2004)
Victor South. Navasky '54, Laws - editor, The Nation (1978-95)
Clifford J. Geertz, Humane Letters- prolific and influential cultural anthropologist
Fatima Meer, Humane Letters - writer and anti-apartheid activist
William Foote Whyte '36, Humane Letters - influential sociologist

1985

Carol F. Gilligan '58, Scientific discipline - influential psychologist and founder, Harvard Project on Women'south Psychology and Girls Development
Leon Golub, Fine Arts - provocative figurative painter
Jeremy J. Rock '57, Laws - president, Federation of American Scientists (1970-2000)
Richard B. Willis '33, Laws - president, Johnson, Kendall & Johnson Inc.

1986

Jane Shelby Richardson '62, Science - biochemist known for pioneering the revolutionary development in protein depiction
Dorothy Shoemaker McDiarmid '29, Laws - 26-yr delegate to Virginia General Assembly advanced public instruction throughout the land
Gilbert Kalish, Music - influential pianist and educator
Jerome Kohlberg, Jr., '46, Laws - investment broker and philanthropist
Sandra Moore Faber '66, Science - astronomer and educator

1987

Philip D. Curtin '45, Humane Messages - a pioneer in earth, comparative, and Atlantic history and in history of Africa and the Caribbean
Vincent G. Harding, Humane Letters - historian, theologian, and kickoff director, Martin Luther King Memorial Eye
Mildred Scott Olmstead, Laws - manager, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (1946-66)
Robert C. Turner '36, Fine Arts - acclaimed ceramic creative person and educator
Sue Thomas Turner '35, Laws - member, Swarthmore Board of Managers (1959-73, 1975-86)

1988

Ernest D. Courant '40, Scientific discipline - physicist who made key contributions to evolution of particle accelerators
Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr. '53, Laws - leading scholar of legal ethics
Molly Grand '33, Laws - student and civil rights activist and president, National Organisation for Women (1987-91)

1989

George H. Crumb, Music - composer and winner, 1967 Pulitzer Prize
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot '66, Humane Letters - influential sociologist and educator and recipient, 1984 MacArthur Fellowship
David C. Folio '78, Science - writer of fundamental studies of the Y chromosome and recipient, 1986 MacArthur Fellowship
Barbara Hall Partee '61, Scientific discipline - linguist, educator and a founder of linguistic semantics
William Poole Seven '59, Laws - economist, adviser, and president, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (1998-2008)

1990

Heywood Hale Broun '40, Humane Letters - sports correspondent, author, and actor known for his wit and elegant commentary
David Montgomery 'l, Humane Messages - leading labor historian
Robert D. Putnam '63, Laws - influential political scientist and dean, Kennedy Schoolhouse of Authorities (1989-93)
Robert V. Whitman '48, Science - civil engineer with expertise in earthquake engineering
Mary Patterson McPherson, Humane Letters - president, Bryn Mawr College (1978-97)

1991

Paul Brest '62, Laws - legal scholar, Stanford Law School dean (1987-99), and president, Hewlett Foundation (2000-nowadays)
Cushing Niles Dolbeare '49, Laws -founder, National Low Income Housing Coalition and respected adviser on federal housing policy
Walter Lamb '39, Science - chairman, Robert E. Lamb Inc.

1992

Janet S. Dickerson, Laws - Swarthmore dean (1981-91) and vice president, Duke (1991-2000), and Princeton (2000-nowadays) Universities
Eilene Marie Galloway '28, Laws - pioneer in space policy and law, including the deed that established NASA
John J. Hopfield '54, Scientific discipline - physicist and biologist known for inventing the Hopfield, or associative neural, network
Thomas North. Mitchell, Humane Messages - classicist and provost, Trinity College Dublin (1991-2001)
Adrienne Rich, Humane Letters - poet and theorist on the politics of sexuality, race, language, power, and women's civilization

1993

Jonathan East. Fine '54, Medical Sciences - founder, Physicians for Human Rights/USA
Arlie Russell Hochschild '62, Humane Messages - influential sociologist and educator
Bernice Johnson Reagon, Humane Messages - historian, activist, and founder, Sweet Honey in the Rock
Jon Sobrino, Humane Letters - pioneering liberation theologian and educator
Harris L. Wofford, Jr., Laws - co-founder, Peace Corps and U.S. senator from Pennsylvania (1991-95)

1994

David Due south. Bamberger '62, Humane Letters - founder and general managing director, Cleveland Opera (1976-2004)
Seamus Heaney, Humane Messages - winner, 1995 Nobel Prize in literature
John C. Mather '68, Science - NASA astrophysicist and winner, 2006 Nobel Prize in physics

1995

Barbara Weiss Cartwright '37, Laws - lifelong abet for peace, criminal justice reform, and public service
Dorwin P. Cartwright '37, Laws - pioneering social psychologist and educator
William H. Cosby, Jr., Humane Letters; Rescinded in 2015
Heidi I. Hartmann '67, Laws - founder and president, Institute for Women'south Policy Research

1996

Lani Guinier, Laws - civil rights attorney and scholar
Johnny Irizarry, Laws - educator, creative person, and executive managing director, Taller Puertorriqueño (1985-97)
Bennett Lorber '64, Science - renowned expert in infectious diseases
Andries van Dam 'sixty, Science - computer scientist and graphics pioneer who built first hypertext organisation

1997

Robert L. Bernstein, Laws - founder, Human Rights Lookout man and Random Business firm executive (1962-89)
Ronald W. Jones '52, Science - economist and expert on international trade
Charles F.C. Ruff '60, Laws - Watergate prosecutor and White Firm counsel (1997-99)
Sandra Lewis Sparrow, Humane Letters

1998

Jane Gilded Heriza, Humane Letters - founder and director, Philadelphia Mural Arts Program (1984-present)
David Ho, Science - renowned AIDS researcher and early champion of combination antiretroviral therapy to care for the illness
Ulric R.G. Neisser 1000'53, Science - pioneering cognitive psychologist
Walter Scheuer '44, Humane Letters - investor and philanthropist

1999

Margaret Allen '70, Scientific discipline - cardiothoracic surgeon, researcher, and public health abet
Christopher Edley, Jr. '73, Laws - co-founder, Harvard Ceremonious Rights project and dean, UC- Berkeley School of Police
Robert Kuttner, Arts - co-founder and co-editor, The American Prospect

2000

Ian Barbour '44, Science - physicist and theologian
Bill T. Jones, Arts - co-founder, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Visitor
Elizabeth Martinez '46, Humane Messages - writer and social activist

2001

Adrienne Asch '69, Science - bioethicist and ceremonious rights advocate
Ken Hechler '35, Humane Letters - ix-term Congressman, author, and veteran
Abraham Verghese, Arts - author and physician

2002

Denis Halliday, Humane Letters - former U.Due north. humanitarian coordinator
Josef Joffe '65, Humane Letters - journalist and international relations scholar

2003

Christopher Chyba '82, Science - astrobiologist and public policy expert
Margaret Morgan Lawrence, Science - child psychiatrist
Jed Due south. Rakoff '64, Human Messages - U.S. District Gauge

2004

Patrick G. Awuah, Jr. '89, Humane Messages - founder, Ashesi Academy College in Republic of ghana
Marjorie Garber '66, Humane Letters - Shakespeare scholar and cultural critic
Joy ('51) and Herbert Kaiser '49, Humane Letters - founders, Medical Teaching for Southern African Blacks

2005

Jonathan Franzen '81, Humane Letters - author
Daniel Hoffman, Humane Letters - poet and professor of English Literature, Swarthmore College 1956-1965
Anne Schuchat '80, Scientific discipline - Rear Admiral, Usa Public Health Service

2006

Kwame Anthony Appiah, Humane Messages - philosopher and African studies scholar
Neil Gershenfeld '81, Science - scientist and inventor
Mary Tater Schroeder '62, Humane Letters - Master Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

2007

Marcia A. Grant 'threescore, Humane Letters - founder, Effat Higher in Saudi Arabia
Robert Parris Moses, Humane Messages - civil rights leader and founder, Algebra Project
J. Robert Prichard '71, Science - president and CEO, Torstar Corporation

2008

Alberto Mora '74, Humane Letters - old general counsel, Department of the Navy
Robert Storr '72, Arts - dean, Yale University Schoolhouse of Art
Phyllis Wise '67, Science - researcher, provost, and executive vice-president, University of Washington

2009

Alfred H. Bloom, Humane Letters - president, Swarthmore College 1991-2009
Mary Schmidt Campbell '69, Arts - educator and dean, NYU'southward Tisch School of the Arts
James C. Hormel '55, Humane Letters - philanthropist and former U.S. ambassador to Grand duchy of luxembourg

2010

B onnie Bassler, Science - educator and microbiologist
John Braxton 'seventy, Humane Letters - educator and labor leader
Robert Michael Franklin, Humane Letters - president, Morehouse College
Stephen Lang '73, Arts - actor and author

2011

David Bradley '75, Humane Messages - publisher and philanthropist
David Kennedy '80, Laws - criminologist and youth advocate
Iqbal Qadir '81, Humane Messages - entrepreneur and educator

2012

Lotte Bailyn '51, Humane Letters - author, academic, and promoter of gender equality in the workplace
Frank Easterbrook '70, Laws - legal scholar and chief guess of the Us Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Judy Richardson '66, Arts - civil rights activist, editor and publisher, and documentary moving-picture show director and producer

2013

Tralance Addy '69, Humane Letters - entrepreneur, humanitarian, and founder and CEO of Plebys International
Lorene Cary, Arts - novelist and social activist

2014

Thomas Laqueur '67, Humanities - scholar and writer
Barbara Norfleet '47, Arts - documentary photographer and professor
Vaneese Thomas '74, Arts - vocaliser and composer
Christopher Van Hollen '83, Laws - congressman

2015

John Alston, Arts - founder & managing director, Chester Children's Chorus
Randy J. Holland '69, Laws - legal scholar and Delaware Supreme Court justice
Molly Miller Jahn '80, Sciences - scientist and educator

2016

Leo Braudy '63, Humane Letters - film critic and cultural historian
F. Stuart "Terry" Chapin '66, Sciences - ecosystem ecologist
Carol Padden, Humane Letters - scholar and advocate for deafened communities

2017

David Gelber '63, Arts - documentary pic producer and announcer
John Goldman '71, Concern - philanthropist
Anna Deavere Smith, Humane Messages - actress, playwright, and educator

2018

Edgar Cahn '56, Laws - social justice advocate
Sonia Sanchez, Arts - poet and writer
Francisco Valero-Cuevas '88, Sciences - biomedical engineer

2019

Njideka Akunyili Crosby '04, Arts - visual artist
Jon Lorsch '90, Sciences - biochemist, director of the National Establish of General Medical Sciences
Bryan A. Stevenson, Laws - founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative

2020

Adele Diamond '74, Sciences - neuroscientist
Saidiya Hartman, Humane Messages - cultural historian
David T. Linde '82 - Humane Messages - media executive

2021

Elizabeth Anderson '81, Humane Letters - philosopher
Rachel Levine, Sciences - banana secretary of health in the U.S. Department of Wellness and Homo Services
Dawn Porter '88, Humane Letters - filmmaker and the co-founder of Trilogy Films

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Source: https://www.swarthmore.edu/past-commencements/past-speakers-and-honorary-degree-recipients

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