Allegra Maynard, Headmistress of Madeira School, is an Honorary Degree Recipient.
1953Agnes Mongan, Honorary Degree Recipient
Agnes Mongan, Assistant Director of Fogg Art Museum at Harvard, is an Honorary Degree Recipient.
1953Mary Pillsbury Lord, Honorary Degree Recipient
Mary Pillsbury Lord, part of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, is an Honorary Degree Recipient.
1954Helen Kenyon, Honorary Degree Recipient
Helen Kenyon, moderator of the General Council of Congregational Christian Churches, is awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. Learn more about Kenyon from the Vassar Encyclopedia.
1954Dr. Rosemary Park, Honorary Degree Recipient
Dr. Rosemary Park, President of Connecticut College and daughter of Wheaton President J. Edgar Park, is an Honorary Degree Recipient.
1954Jeannette Kittredge Watson, Honorary Degree Recipient
Jeannette Kittredge Watson, a member of the class of 1902 was wife of Thomas J. Watson, Sr., the founder of International Business Machines (IBM). Mother of four children, and member of IBM’s board of directors for many years.
1955Elizabeth Orton Jones, Honorary Degree Recipient
Elizabeth Orton Jones, author and illustrator of children’s books, is an Honorary Degree Recipient.
1956Marguerite C. Hearsey, Honorary Degree Recipient
Marguerite C. Hearsey, head of Abbot Academy, is awarded an honorary degree.
1956Phyllis McGinley Hayden, Honorary Degree Recipient
Phyllis McGinley Hayden, poet, is an Honorary Degree Recipient.
1957Eleanor E. Randall, Honorary Degree Recipient
Eleanor E. Randall, former Wheaton professor of art and senior lecturer at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, is awarded an honorary degree.
1957Mabel W. Daniels, Honorary Degree Recipient
Mabel W. Daniels, a composer, is an Honorary Degree Recipient.
1957Rosemond Tuve, Honorary Degree Recipient
Rosemond Tuve, English Professor at Connecticut College, is an Honorary Degree Recipient.
1958Dorothy Shaver, Honorary Degree Recipient
Dorothy Shaver, president of Lord & Taylor, is awarded an honorary degree.
1958Meribeth Elliott Cameron, Honorary Degree Recipient
Meribeth Elliott Cameron, Mount Holyoke College Dean, is an Honorary Degree Recipient.
1958Sylvia Meadows, Honorary Degree Recipient
Sylvia Meadows 1918 is awarded an honorary degree. Meadows was a member of the board of trustees from 1927 to 1969 and secretary of the board from 1927 to 1964. She was the College’s first alumnae secretary, serving from 1921… Read More »
1959Jean Dalrymple Ginder, Honorary Degree Recipient
Jean Dalrymple Ginder, Director of New York City Center Theatre & Light Opera Cos., is an Honorary Degree Recipient.
1959Irita Van Doren, Honorary Degree Recipient
Irita Van Doren, Literarary Editor of New York Herald Tribune, is an Honorary Degree Recipient.
1959Mary Ingraham Bunting, Honorary Degreee Recipient
Mary Ingraham Bunting, Douglass College Dean, is an Honorary Degreee Recipient.
1960Muriel Reynolds, Honorary Degree Recipient
Muriel Reylonds, Class of 1924, is named one of the first two women officers of a major worldwide corporation.
1960Iris Origo, Honorary Degree Recipient
La Marchesa Iris Origo, an author, is an Honorary Degree Recipient.