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 |
|
|
|
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 |
|
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 |
