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1953Allegra Maynard, Honorary Degree Recipient

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.

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