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Honorary Degree Recipients in the 1980s

Year/ Recipient
Degree
Info
 
1982 Harry Jack Gray
Doctor of Laws
Former chairman, CEO & Pres., United Technologies Corp.
 
Robert Motherwell
Doctor of Fine Arts
Artist
Frank Press
Doctor of Science
President, National Academy of Science
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
Doctor of Letters
Author and historian
1983 Victor Borge
Doctor of Fine Arts
Musician and comedian
 
Malcolm Cowley
Doctor of Letters
Author and critic
John H. Filer
Doctor of Humane Letters
Chairman and CEO of Aetna Life & Casualty
Clifton R. Wharton, Jr
Doctor of Humane Letters
Chancellor, State University of New York System
1984 John Hope Franklin
Doctor of Letters
James B. Duke professor of history, Duke University
 
John F. Welch, Jr.
Doctor of Humane Letters
Chairman and CEO, General Electric
1985 Isaac B. Singer
Doctor of Letters
Author
 
John J. Driscoll
Doctor of Laws
President, Connecticut State AFL-CIO
Virgil Thompson
Doctor of Letters
Composer and author
Charles H. Kaman
Doctor of Laws
Founder and Chairman, Kaman Corp.
Howard Green
Doctor of Science
M.D., Harvard Medical School
1986 Ray Bolger
Doctor of Fine Arts
Actor, humanitarian
 
Rafael Caldera
Doctor of Humane Letters
Venezuelan statesman
Jozef A. Gierowski
Doctor of Humane Letters
President, Jagiellonian University, Poland
1987
Marian Anderson
Doctor of Letters
Contralto
Roger Tory Peterson
Doctor of Science
Author and illustrator
Stanley Popiel
Doctor of Humane Letters
Co-founder, Mystic Color Labs
Charles S. Robb
Doctor of Laws
Former Governor of Virginia
Gladys Tantaquidgeon
Doctor of Letters
Anthropologist
Susan Saint James
Doctor of Fine Arts
Actress
1988
Nicolaas Bloembergen
Doctor of Science
Physicist
Dorothy C. Goodwin
Doctor of Laws
Former state legislator and UConn administrator
Denis F. Mullane
Doctor of Humane Letters
Chairman & CEO, Connecticuit Mutual Life Insurance
Ann Petry
Doctor of Letters
Scholar and author
Elie Wiesel
Doctor of Letters
Nobel laureate, author, humanitarian
1989
James F. McNally
Doctor of Laws
Chairman & CEO, Conn. Bank & Trust
John A. Wheeler
Doctor of Science
Ashbel Smith and Jane and Roland Blumberg Professor Emeritus, Univ. of Texas, Austin

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