Degrees Awarded by Utica College of Syracuse University
(Syracuse University Honorary Degrees) 
October 19, 1961 
Moses G. Hubbard 
Honorary Doctor of Laws 
May 1974 
Allen H. Nucharth 
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters 
May 1985 
Mstislave Rostropovich 
Honorary Doctor of Letters 
May 1987 
Edward W. Duffy ‘50 
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters 
May 1989 
Dr. Henry DiSpirito 
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters 
May 1992 
Thomas J. Cahill Jr. ‘49 
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters 
Richard Benedetto ‘65 
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters 
May 1993 
Dr. Frank Lentriccia 
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters 
Walter D. Edmonds 
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters 
Dr. Marilyn Jacox ‘51 
Honorary Doctor of Science 
Dr. Eleanor Z. Baker ‘51 
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters 
May 1994 
The Honorable Sherwood Boehlert ‘61 
Honorary Doctor of Laws 
Dr. Prosper Igboeli ‘74 
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters 
May 1995 
The Honorable Hugh R. Jones 
Honorary Doctor of Laws 
Dr. John Flagler ‘52 
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters 
Dr. Diane Doran ‘78 
Honorary Doctor of Science 
Utica College Honorary Degrees (Conferred by Utica College Board of Trustees)
(Utica College Honorary Degrees) 
1996 
Dr. William Tolley 
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters 
Dr. Virgil Crisafulli 
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters 
Raymond Simon 
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters 
Dr. Emlyn I. Griffith 
Honorary Doctor of Laws 
May 1996 
David F. D’Alessandro ‘72 
Honorary Doctor of Laws 
1997 
Dr. Alfred Tector ‘59 
Honorary Doctor of Science 
May 1998 
Elsie Shemin-Roth ‘50 
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters 
John Martin ‘59, Esq. 
Honorary Doctor of Laws 
May 1999 
Theodore Martin ‘61 
Honorary Doctor of Commercial Science 
May 2000 
Jan Schlictmann 
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters 
May 2001 
Frank Deford 
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters 
F. Eugene Romano 
Honorary Doctor of Laws 
May 2002 
Judith Viorst 
Honorary Doctor of Letters 
May 2003 
Harold T. Clark Jr. ‘65 
Honorary Doctor of Laws 
George W. Haley 
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters 
May 2004 
The Honorable Sherwood Boehlert ‘61 
Honorary Doctor of Laws 
Joseph P. Furgal ‘50 
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters 
Charles A. Gaetano 
Honorary Doctor of Laws 
May 2005 
Kate Oser 
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters 
May 2006 
Mike Farrell 
Honorary Doctor of Laws 
Dr. Albert H. Shaheen ‘49 
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters 
May 2007 
Colonel Eileen Collins 
Honorary Doctor of Science 
Dr. Sandro Sticca ‘57 
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters 
May 2008 
Eugene R. Corasanti 
Honorary Doctor of Laws 
May 2010 
Martin Biegelman 
Doctor of Laws 
Ray Suarez 
Doctor of Letters 
May 2011 
Raymond Serway ‘59 
Doctor of Science 
April 2012 
Leonard Pitts 
Doctor of Humane Letters 
May 2012 
Malaak Compton-Rock 
Doctor of Humane Letters 
May 2013 
Eugene Robinson 
Doctor of Humane Letters 
Nguyen Thi Quynh Lam 
Doctor of Humane Letters 
May 2014 
Dominick “Don” Carbone 
Doctor of Humane Letters 
Doris Wester Miga 
Doctor of Humane Letters 
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