Honorary Degree Recipients
2004

Priscilla Dewey Houghton ’44
Arts Educator and Author

Barbara Lee
Principal, The Barbara Lee Family Foundation

Gloria White-Hammond, M.D.
Co-Pastor, Bethel AME Methodist Church

2003

Anne B. Batterson ’59
Author, Adventurer, Teacher

Marsha Johnson Evans
President and CEO
American Red Cross

Antonia Coello Novello
New York State Health Commissioner

2002

Libby C. Candler ’77
Co-Chair, Board of Trustees,
Pine Manor College

Susan L. Lindquist
Director, Whitehead Institute
For Biomedical Research

Marita Rivero
Vice President and Radio General
Manager, WGBH

2001 Vicki Donlan ’71
Founder and Publisher,
Women’s Business


Sandra Labas Fenwick

Chief Operating Officer
Children’s Hospital, Boston


Martella Wilson-Taylor

President and CEO
YWCA-Boston

2000

Catherine Bertini
Executive Director,
World Food Programme

Deborah Prothrow-Stith
Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Director of the Division of
Public Health Practice
Harvard School of Public Health

Nina Totenberg
Legal Affairs Correspondent,
National Public Radio

Karen Smyers
World Champion Triathelete

1999

The Honorable Jane Swift
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts

Kip Tiernan
Founder, Rosie’s Place
Co-Founder, Poor People’s United Fund

Linda Whitlock
President, Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston

1998

Star Jones, Esq.
Co-Host of ABC TV’s The View

Susan J. Blumenthal
Assistant Surgeon General of
the United States

Frances Crandall Dyke ’25 (posthumous)
PMC Alumna and Benefactor

1997

Judy George
Chair and CEO of Domain Home Fashions

Lydia Villa-Komaroff
Vice President for Research and
Professor of Neurology,
Northwestern University

Edith Blakeslee Phelps
Author, Spokesperson and Consultant
on the Education and Development of
Girls and Young Women


1996

Teresa Heinz
Philanthropist and Chair,
The Heinz Family Foundation

Barbara Gray Koch ’50
Trustee Emerita, PMC
Patricia Smith
Poet, Boston Globe Columnist

Lydia Woodward ’71
Executive Producer/Writer, ER

1995

Rodman R. Henry
Professor Emeritus, Art History, PMC

Margaret Lazarus
Documentary Film Maker

Mary Richardson
Co-Anchor, Channel 5’s Chronicle

1994

Michel Butor
Author

Susan Hampshire
Actress

Robert Conover Macauley
President, Americares Foundation

Liz Walker
Anchor, WBZ-TV4

1993

Susan McGee Bailey
Director, Wellesley College Center
for Research on Women

Euterpe Boukis Dukakis
Retired Educator

Sheri Poe
CEO and Founder, Ryka, Inc.

1992

Richard E. Deutsch
Trustee Emeritus, PMC
Philanthropist

William Randolph Hearst, Jr. (posthumous)
Chairman, Hearst Enterprises

1991

Wallis Annenberg ’59
Counselor, Daniel Freeman Hospital
Editorial Staff, TV Guide

Mother Clara Hale
Founder, Hale House, New York City

Seamus Heaney
Poet, Nobel Prize Winner

John A. Rassias
Faculty, Dartmouth College
Founder, Rassias Language Institute


1990

Alice Tepper Marlin
President, Council on Economic Priorities

Harold W. McGraw, Jr.
Chairman Emeritus, McGraw-Hill, Inc.

1989

The Honorable Walter H. Annenberg
Philanthropist and former Ambassador
to Great Britain

Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
President, Seagram Company

Matina S. Horner
Former President, Radcliffe College

Donald Saunders
Real Estate Developer

Liv Ullmann
Actress

1988

Diahann Carroll
Actress, Singer

Nancy Dickerson
Writer/TV Reporter

Marvin Minsky
Mathematician, Physicist, Engineer

George Plimpton
Author/Editor, Paris Review

1987

Leonard Bernstein
Composer/Conductor

Helen Grace Coates
Former PMC Faculty, Concert Pianist,
Arts Administrator

James Browning Wyeth
Artist

Kitty Carlisle Hart
Actress, Singer, Arts Administrator

1986

Sharon Percy Rockefeller
President, WETA FM

Judy Woodruff
Formerly Chief Correspondent,
Lehrer New Hour News Anchor, CNN


1985

Josephine Abercrombie ’44
Chairman, J.A. Abercrombie & Sons

John Marion
Honorary Chairman,
Sotheby’s North America


1984

Barbara Carroll Block
Jazz Pianist

Katherine Fanning
Editor, Christian Science Monitor

1983

Sherry Lansing
Independent Producer and Partner,
Jaffe-Lansing Productions

Emily Wetherby Sullivan ’24
Designer, Emily Wetherby Associates

1982

Leonore Annenberg
Former Chief of Protocol,
U.S. Department of State

Pauline Tompkins ’38
Educator/Writer
President Emerita, Cedar Crest College


1981

Dorothy McGuire Swope ’36
Actress

Frederick Carlos Ferry, Jr.
President Emeritus, PMC