Commencement

Honorary Degree Recipients

 

Conferred by the University of Missouri-St. Louis

Recipient Date Conferred

 

Jean Carnahan
Doctor of Humane Letters

August 2012

 

Henry Givens Jr.
Doctor of Arts and Letters

May 2012

 

Tom Sullivan
Doctor of Humane Letters  

May 2012

 

Patricia B. Wolff, MD
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 2012

 

David Robertson
Doctor of Music

May 2011

 

Rita Colwell
Doctor of Science

May 2011

 

Sr. Mary Antona Ebo
Doctor of Humane Letters

December 2011

 

Norman R. Seay
Doctor of Humane Letters

December 2011

 

Michael Uthoff
Doctor of Fine Arts

August 2010

 

Thomas Engelhardt
Doctor of Arts and Letters

May 2010

 

Philip H. Loughlin III
Doctor of Arts and Letters

December 2009

 

Nancy Kranzberg
Doctor of Humane Letters

December 2009

 

Kenneth Kranzberg
Doctor of Humane Letters

December 2009

 

Eric Schaps
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 2009

 

Susan Salesky Rudin
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 2009

 

Marylen Mann
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 2009

 

Esley Ian Hamilton
Doctor of Arts and Letters

May 2009

 

Earl Elmer Bakken
Doctor of Humane Letters

August 2008

 

Martin Duggan
Doctor of Arts and Letters

May 2008

 

Mildred Winter
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 2008

 

Anthony (Tony) La Russa Jr.
Doctor of Humane Letters

December 2007

 

Charles Thal
Doctor of Humane Letters

December 2007

 

David Halen
Doctor of Music

May 2007

 

John Lutz
Doctor of Arts & Letters

May 2007

 

Robert Frank
Doctor of Humane Letters

December 2006

 

The Honorable Wayne Goode
Doctor of Laws

August 2006

 

Joe Edwards
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 2006

 

Priscilla R. McDonnell
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 2006

 

Helen S. Shopmaker and
Dr. Allen Shopmaker

Doctor of Humane Letters

August 2005

 

Leo Drey
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 2005

 

Mary Ann Lee
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 2005

 

Sandra VanTrease
Doctor of Arts & Letters

May 2004

 

Ahmed Kathrada
Doctor of Humane Letters

January 2004

 

Robert R. Hermann
Doctor of Humane Letters

January 2004

 

William C. (Bill) Wilson
Doctor of Humane Letters

January 2004

 

John W. Barriger IV
Doctor of Arts & Letters

August 2003

 

Martin Matthews
Doctor of Humane Letters

August 2003

 

Sister Mary Jean Ryan
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 2003

 

Robert W. Spencer
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 2003

 

S. Lee Kling
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 2003

 

Harriett Woods
Doctor of Laws

January 2003

 

Seigo Arai
Doctor of Arts & Letters

January 2003

 

Stuart Symington Jr.
Doctor of Laws

August 2002

 

William Warfield
Doctor of Music

August 2002

 

William L. Clay
Doctor of Laws

May 2002

 

Theodore C. Wetterau
Doctor of Humane Letters

January 2002

 

Whitney Harris
Doctor of Humane Letters

August 2001

 

David C. Darnell
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 2001

 

Robert W. McKnight
Doctor of Arts & Letters

May 2001

 

W. Randolph Adams
Doctor of Arts & Letters

January 2001

 

Ellen Sherberg
Doctor of Arts & Letters

August 2000

 

Adam Aronson
Doctor of Arts & Letters

May 2000

 

Judith Aronson
Doctor of Arts & Letters

May 2000

 

Alyn Essman
Doctor of Arts & Letters

May 2000

 

Marlyn Essman
Doctor of Arts & Letters

May 2000

 

John W. Bachmann
Doctor of Arts & Letters

January 2000

 

Claude Baker
Doctor of Arts & Letters

August 1999

 

Raymond C. Burton
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 1999

 

Peter Fanchi Jr.
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 1999

 

James Burke
Doctor of Arts & Letters

January 1999

 

Robert Archibald
Doctors of Arts & Letters

August 1998

 

Brian Mulroney
Doctor of Laws

May 1998

 

The Honorable Sue S. Shear
Doctor of Laws

May 1998

 

Richard C. Fleming
Doctor of Laws

January 1998

 

John Hume
Doctor of Laws

January 1998

Osborne (Ozzie) Smith

Doctor of Humane Letters

August 1997

 

JoAnn Harmon
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 1997

 

John Jacob
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 1997

 

Bruce Coppock
Doctor of Music

January 1997

 

Horace Wilkins Jr.
Doctor of Humane Letters

August 1996

 

Charles MacKay
Doctor of Music

May 1996

 

John Francis Dill
Doctor of Humane Letters

January 1996

 

John L. Mason
Doctor of Humane Letters

January 1996

 

Julius Hunter
Doctor of Arts & Letters

August 1995
Fred L. Brown
Doctor of Humane Letters
May 1995
James H. Buford
Doctor of Humane Letters
May 1995

 

E. Desmond Lee
Doctor of Humane Letters

January 1995

 

Patricia C. McKissack
Doctor of Arts & Letters

August 1994

 

Frederick L. McKissack
Doctor of Arts & Letters

August 1994

 

The Honorable Neil Molloy
Doctor of Laws

August 1994

 

The Honorable Robert Young
Doctor of Laws

August 1994

 

Edith Cunnane
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 1994

 

Benjamin F. Edwards III
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 1994

 

Charles H. Hoessle
Doctor of Science

January 1994

 

Yien-si Tsiang
Doctor of Laws

January 1994

 

Ronald Himes
Doctor of Fine Arts

August 1993

 

Joseph R. Thomas
Doctor of Humane Letters

August 1993

 

Steven Woolf
Doctor of Fine Arts

August 1993

 

Lord Asa Briggs
Doctor of Arts & Letters

May 1993

 

Alfred Fleishman
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 1993

 

Donald M. Suggs, D.D.S.
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 1993

 

Eugene M. Lang
Doctor of Humane Letters

January 1993

 

Muriel Nezhnie Helfman
Doctor of Fine Arts

August 1992

 

Helen E. Nash, M.D.
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 1992

 

Colin Graham
Doctor of Fine Arts

May 1992

 

David W. Kemper
Doctor of Humane Letters

January 1992

 

Marian O. Oldham
Doctor of Humane Letters

January 1992

 

Andrew B. Craig III
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 1991

 

Gyo Obata
Doctor of Fine Arts

May 1991

 

Margaret Bush Wilson
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 1991

 

Andrew E. Neuman
Doctor of Humane Letters

January 1991

 

Peggy A. Neuman
Doctor of Humane Letters

January 1991

 

Ruth A. Bryant
Doctor of Humane Letters

August 1990

 

Stanley Pace
Doctor of Humane Letters

August 1990

 

Stephen Jay Gould
Doctor of Science

May 1990

 

Robert McFerrin
Doctor of Music

May 1990

 

Bobby McFerrin
Doctor of Music

May 1990

 

Robert C. West
Doctor of Engineering

May 1990

 

Tom K. Smith Jr.
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 1990

 

William E. Cornelius
Doctor of Humane Letters

January 1990

 

Willie Mae Ford Smith
Doctor of Humane Letters

August 1989

 

Emily Rauh Pulitzer
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 1989

 

Joseph Pulitzer Jr.
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 1989

 

Jackie Joyner Kersee
Doctor of Humane Letters

January 1989

 

Harvey Saligman
Doctor of Humane Letters

January 1989

 

Lynn R. Broeder
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 1988

 

Richard J. Mahoney
Doctor of Laws

May 1988

 

John R. Weber
Doctor of Humane Letters

January 1988

 

Sister Patricia Ann Kelley
Doctor of Humane Letters

January 1988

 

Katherine Dunham
Doctor of Fine Arts

May 1987

 

Lee M. Liberman
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 1987

 

The Rev. William G. Gillespie
Doctor of Laws

January 1987

 

Daniel Schlafly
Doctor of Humane Letters

January 1987

 

Jack Buck
Doctor of Humane Letters

August 1986

 

Ntozake Shange
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 1986

 

Judge Ann Quill Niederlander
Doctor of Laws

January 1986

 

Sanford N. McDonnell
Doctor of Laws

August 1985

 

Mary Burnett Strauss
Doctor of Fine Arts

May 1985

 

Leon R. Strauss
Doctor of Laws

May 1985

 

Robert Hyland
Doctor of Laws

May 1985

 

Max Starkloff
Doctor of Humane Letters

January 1985

 

Charles Menees
Doctor of Humane Letters

August 1984

 

Stanley Frank Musial
Doctor of Laws

May 1984

 

Richard Gaddes
Doctor of Fine Arts

January 1984

 

Ben H. Wells
Doctor of Humane Letters

July 1983

 

Katherine Gladney Wells
Doctor of Humane Letters

July 1983

 

DeVerne Lee Calloway
Doctor of Laws

May 1983

 

Manfred Rommel
Doctor of Humane Letters

January 1983

 

Howard F. Baer
Doctor of Humane Letters

August 1982

 

Noah Weinstein
Doctor of Humane Letters

August 1982

 

Howard Nemerov
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 1982

 

Eric P. Newman
Doctor of Humane Letters

December 1981

 

Evelyn Edison Newman
Doctor of Humane Letters

December 1981

 

Leonard Slatkin
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 1981

 

Julia Davis
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 1981

 

Jessie L. Ternberg, M.D.
Doctor of Science

May 1981

 

Irving Dilliard
Doctor of Laws

December 1980

 

Sr. Marie Charles Buford
Doctor of Laws

August 1980

 

Nesby Moore
Doctor of Laws

August 1980

 

Grace Bumbry
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 1980

 

Richard Dudman
Doctor of Laws

August 1979

 

Morton D. May
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 1979

 

Marjorie Wolcott May
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 1979

 

Margaret Drey Freund
Doctor of Humane Letters

January 1979

 

Theodore McMillian
Doctor of Humane Letters

August 1978

 

Donald P. Ames
Doctor of Laws

May 1978

 

Ernest Tino Trova
Doctor of Humane Letters

January 1978

 

John Francis McDermott
Doctor of Humane Letters

August 1977

 

Emily Hahn
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 1977

 

Charles F. Knight
Doctor of Laws

May 1976

 

Richard Mantia
Doctor of Laws

May 1976

 

Margaret Hickey Strubinger
Doctor of Laws

May 1975

 

Frankie Muse Freeman
Doctor of Laws

May 1975

 

Lawerence K. Roos
Doctor of Laws

January 1975

 

William N. Eisendrath Jr.
Doctor of Humane Letters

May 1974

 

Theodore D. McNeal
Doctor of Laws

May 1973

 

Sol M. Linowitz
Doctor of Laws

May 1972

 

Roy Wilkins
Doctor of Humane Letters

June 1971

 

J. Martin Klotsche
Doctor of Humane Letters

June 1970

 

Leonor K. Sullivan
Doctor of Laws

June 1969

 

Preston Estep
Doctor of Laws

June 1968

 

Joseph P. Cosand
Doctor of Humane Letters

June 1967