View of Dr. Hesung Chun Koh ('51) and honorary degree recipient Harold Hongju Koh at Commencement on May 14, 2000.

Dr. Hesung Chun Koh is a member of the Board of Advisors and President & Director of East Rock Institute. Harold Hongju Koh, the Assistant Secretary of State for...

Bishop Desmond Tutu (right) and Illinois Senator Paul Simon talk after Baccalaureate on May 19, 1984. Both men receive honorary degrees from Dickinson College.

President William Edel (class of 1915) awards an honorary degree to Ethel Wagg Selby (class of 1915) during the Founders Day Convocation ceremony in Bosler Hall on May 1, 1952.

Honorary degree recipient Marianne Craig Moore is the third person sitting from the left.

The honorary degree recipients and their sponsors at Commencement on June 4, 1961.

Honorary degree recipients are sitting in the front row and they are, from left to right, Rev. Dr. John W. Mckelvey, Colonel Richard H. Ellis, Bishop W. Vernon Mddleton, President Malcolm, Ambassador Wiley...

A group photograph of honorary degree recipients (sitting) and their sponsors at Commencement on June 6, 1965. 

Seated from left to right:  John M. Hoerner ('31), Dr. Mary D. Ames, President Howard L. Rubendall ('31), Nathan M. Pusey, Judge Robert Lee Jacobs ('32), and Dean...

Honorary degree recipients and their sponsors pose for a group photograph during Commencement on May 24, 1970.

Standing from Left to Right: Professor Joseph Schiffman, Professor Horace Rogers ('24), Professor Paul Kaylor, Professor William Dornemann, and Professor Dan Bechtel....

Matina Horner receives an honorary Doctor of Laws from President Howard Rubendall ('31) at Commencement on May 20, 1973. Horner's faculty sponsor, English Professor Dorothy Culp (center), looks on.

Honorary degree recipient Harold Hongju Koh stands at the podium and delivers the Commencement address on May 14, 2000. Koh is the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.

View of Zatae Longsdorff Straw (Class of 1887) with President Corson (Class of 1917) and Dean of Women Josephine Meredith (Class of 1901) at Commencement in 1937. 

Left to Right: Dr. Straw ; President Corson ; Dean Meredith

Oscar Arias Sanchez at a reception after he receives his honorary Doctor of Humanitarian Service degree on May 18, 1997.

Beatriz Quintero, professor of Spanish, stands to the left of Oscar Arias Sanchez.

Blake Lee Spahr (Class of 1947) receives an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters at Commencement on May 14, 2000.

President Durden is standing behind the podium on the right.