Honorary Degree Recipients

2010

Trish Karter CEO and Co-Founder, Dancing Deer Baking Company
Cornelia Kubler Kavanagh '60 Sculptor
Gloria Reuben Actress, Singer, Social Activist

2009

Lori Arviso Alvord, MD Associate Dean of Student and Multicultural Affairs at Dartmouth College Medical School and first woman Navaho surgeon in the United States
Deborah E. Wiley '66 Senior Vice President for Corporate Communications at John Wiley and Sons, Inc., Publishers

2008

Dr. JudyAnn Rollins Bigby Secretary of Health and Human Services of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Constance Hess Williams '64 Senator, 17th District of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Jacqueline Woodson Award-Winning Author

2007

Anne Noland Edwards '70, P'00 Co-Chair, PMC Board of Trustees
Philip O. Geier, Ph.D. Co-Chair, PMC Board of Trustees; Executive Director, Davis United World College Scholars Program
Yvonne Gomez-Carrion, M.D. Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Associate in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Isreal Deaconess Medical Center
Swanee Hunt, Ph.D. Director, Women and Public Policy Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Victoria Rowell Actress, Author, and Dancer; Founder, Rowell Foster Children's Positive Plan

2006

Lelie Allen International Tennis Star; Founder and Executive Director, Leslie Allen Foundation
Dr. Johnetta B. Cole President, Bennet College for Women
Emily Kernan Rafferty '69 President, Metropolitan Museum of Art

2005

Callie Crossley Television and Documentary Producer
Maconda Brown O'Connor '50 Education Scholar
Patara Raiva Sila-On '61 Chair, S&P Syndicate Public Company of Bangkok
Lillian Vernon Founding Chair, Lillian Vernon Corporation

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