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Sister Donna Markham, O.P. - Christus Magister Medal
Kerry Alys Robinson (Undergraduate Commencement Speaker)
Kay Dean Toran ’64, Hon. ’12 (Graduate Commencement Speaker)
Jim Berchtold ‘63
Andrew Mendenhall ‘95, MD
The Honorable Adrienne Nelson
Reynold Verret, PhD
Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, O.S.B. - Christus Magister Medal
Michael E. Nelson
Kupiri Ackerman-Barger, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN
The Honorable Patrick J. Leahy
Steve Moore, PhD
Moe O’Connor
Ari Shapiro (Commencement Speaker)
Thomas Landy - Christus Magister Medal
Marla Salmon
Kunal Nayyar (Commencement Speaker)
Melody Routley
Winifred Quinn
Gloria Purvis
Rev. Richard Berg, C.S.C.
Mary Boyle
Sr. Marilyn Lacey, R.S.M. — Christus Magister Medal
Fr. Greg Boyle, S.J. (Commencement Speaker)
Carlos Kalmar
Carol Ann Mooney
Gil Muñoz
Thomas G. Greene, Ed.D. — Christus Magister Medal
Nancy K. Bryant
Cheryle A. Kennedy
Marilynne S. Robinson, Ph.D.
Rev. H. Richard Rutherford, C.S.C., Ph.D.
Sr. Alberta Dieker, O.S.B. — Christus Magister Medal
Amy Dundon-Berchtold
Susan Sygall
Mucki (Pei Ling) Tan '80
Robert Watzke, M.D.
Retired Ambassador Mary Carlin Yates (Commencement Speaker)
Fr. Stephen V. Sundborg, SJ — Christus Magister Medal
Stephen M. Barr
Matthew W. Chapman '71
Mark Edlen
Susan B. Hassmiller
Jessica Jackley (Commencement I Speaker)
Darlene V. Shiley
Hannah L. Storm (Commencement II Speaker)
Sr. Charlene Herinckx, SSMO ‘78 — Christus Magister Medal
Celia Hammond, L.L.M. (Commencement Speaker)
Lieutenant General Dana T. Atkins, United States Air Force, Ret. ‘77
Rev. George C. Bernard, CSC
Anthony Doerr
Brian J. Doyle
Rafer Owens
D. Allen Lund and Kathleen Lund — Christus Magister Medal
Tim Boyle (Commencement Speaker)
Fedele Bauccio ’64, ’66 MBA, ’04 Hon. (Commencement Speaker)
Eleanor Baum
David Brooks
Rev. Robert S. Pelton, CSC
Cathy Rush
Steve Shepard
Rev. Bill Hayes, SJ — Christus Magister Medal
Anne Fadiman
Scott Malpass
Larree Renda (Commencement Speaker)
Walter Urba, M.D.
Carolyn Woo — Christus Magister Medal
John Beckman
James Popham
Ed Ray
Most Reverend Alexander Sample
Anne Thompson (Commencement Speaker)
Rev. E. William Beauchamp, CSC
Right Rev. Monsignor Tim Murphy ’73 MEd — Christus Magister Medal
Brian Druker, M.D.
Karen Gaffney
Kirk Hanson (Commencement Speaker)
Kathryn Jones Harrison
Br. Donald Stabrowski, CSC
Rev. David T. Tyson, CSC — Christus Magister Medal
Sister Rita Ferschweiler, SP
John Heily '67
Lou Holtz (Commencement Speaker)
Rev. Tom O'Hara, CSC
Kay Dean Toran '64
Lawrence S. Cunningham — Christus Magister Medal
Mother Francine Cardew, FSE '67
The Honorable Miguel Diaz
Dennis Keenan '69
His Honor Diarmuid O'Scannlain
Dr. Don V. Romanaggi '56
Carolyn Antonides Williams
Founders of Blanchet House of Hospitality — Christus Magister Medal
Fred and Suzanne Fields
Michael McCabe '70
Michael Merzenich '64
Genny Nelson
Lillian Pitt
Jim Sinegal
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Most Reverend John Vlazny — Christus Magister Medal
Paul Hawken (Commencement Speaker)
Kathy Johnson '66
Ralph Miller '73
Dan O'Neill
Most Reverend William Skylstad
Chen Yi
Dr. Peter Tannock – Christus Magister Medal
Peggy Noonan
Eugene Wizer '60
The Honorable Edward Leavy ' 50
Janeen McAninch
Roy Heynderickx '83 MBA
Kim Dae-Jung
Rev. Tom Streit, CSC – Christus Magister Medal
Archbishop John P. Foley
David Brandt
Libby Appel
Catherine Gilliss
Walter Stott
Sr. Kathleen Ross, SNJM – Christus Magister Medal
Marty Haugen – Doctor of Humane Letters
Col. Susan Helms, USAF – Doctor of Humane Letters
Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ – Doctor of Humane Letters
Donald Shiley '51 – Doctor of Humane Letters
Rev. Edward A. Malloy, CSC – Christus Magister Medal
Tim Roemer – Doctor of Laws (Commencement Speaker)
Sr. Karin Dufault, SP – Doctor of Public Service
Kevin Fuller – Doctor of Public Service
Vivian A. Bull – Doctor of Humane Letters
Rev. William J. Bryon, SJ – Christus Magister Medal
David James Duncan – Doctor of Humane Letters
Karl-Henrik Robert, MD – Doctor of Public Service
Fedele R. Bauccio – Doctor of Public Service
Rachel Bristol – Doctor of Public Service
Susan Sokol Blosser – Doctor of Public Service
Joe Etzel – Doctor of Public Service
Millard Fuller – Christus Magister Medal
Jean Vollum – Doctor of Fine Arts
Dr. Peter Kohler – Doctor of Public Service
Rev. Thomas Chambers, CSC – Doctor of Humane Letters
Rev. Hugh Cleary, CSC – Christus Magister Medal
Clive Charles – Doctor of Public Service
Rev. Walter Burghardt, S. J. – Doctor of Humane Letters
Dorothy Coughlin – Doctor of Public Service
Ray Siegfried II – Doctor of Public Service
Rev. David T. Tyson, CSC – Doctor of Public Service
Anthony Dispigno – Doctor of Public Service
Patrick Becker – Doctor of Public Service (at Campaign Gala)
Jo Becker – Doctor of Public Service (at Campaign Gala)
Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ – Christus Magister Medal
Joseph Allegretti – Doctor of Public Service
Albert D. Corrado – Doctor of Public Service
Tony Hillerman – Doctor of Humane Letters
Julie Mancini – Doctor of Humane Letters
Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo – Doctor of Public Service
Gertrude Fleming Rempfer – Doctor of Public Service
Monika K. Hellwig – Christus Magister
Douglas Kmiec – Doctor of Humane Letters
Edwin A. Sweo – Doctor of Public Service
Mary Jo Tully – Doctor of Humane Letters
Margaret O’Brien Steinfels & Peter Steinfels – Christus Magister
Noel Don Wycliff – Doctor of Humane Letters
Edmund D. Pellegrino – Doctor of Public Service
Most Rev. John G. Vlazny – Doctor of Laws
Jeanne L. Narum – Doctor of Public Service
Martin E. Marty – Christus Magister Medal
Mark Gearan – Doctor of Public Service
Patricia Hayes – Doctor of Humane Letters
John A. Teske – Doctor of Public Service
Sr. Jean Lenz, OSF – Doctor of Humane Letters
The Hon. James Larocco – Doctor of Public Service
Judge John Noonan, Jr. – Christus Magister Medal
Edward O. Wilson – Doctor of Humane Letters
Most Rev. Francis George, OMI – Doctor of Laws
Mark Shields – Doctor of Public Service
Judith Ramaly – Doctor of Humane Letters
Jerry Hudson – Doctor of Humane Letters
Gert Boyle – Doctor of Public Service
Rev. J Bryan Hehir – Christus Magister Medal
Dennis Barrett – Doctor of Public Service
Rev. James R. Lackenmier, CSC – Doctor of Humane Letters
Cpt. Scott O’Grady – Doctor of Public Service
Sr. Lourdes Sheehan RSM – Doctor of Humane Letters
David Grove – Doctor of Public Service
Mark O. Hatfield – Christus Magister Medal
John R. Emerick – Doctor of Public Service
Silvio Garaventa, Senior – Doctor of Public Service
James E. Muller – Doctor of Public Service
Antonia Coello Novello – Doctor of Public Service
Mrs. Kathleen W. Andrews, DHL
Dr. Norman C. Francis, LLD
Mrs. Elsie Franz Finley, DPS
Mr. Silvio Garaventa, Sr., DPS
Barry Lopez, DHL
Ann C. Williams – Doctor of Public Service
Rev. Carl F. Ebey, CSC – Doctor of Humane Letters
Sister Jane Hibbard, SNJM – Doctor of Public Service
Marla E. Salmon, R.N., ScD – Doctor of Public Service
Frances FitzGerald – Doctor of Human Letters
Ernest Boyer – Doctor of Laws
Eugene Feltz – Doctor of Public Service
The Most Reverend Agostino Cacciavillan, JCD – Doctor of Laws
Alice Gallin – Doctor of Humane Letters
Philip J. Robinson – Doctor of Public Service
Dr. Arthur A. Schulte, Jr. – Doctor of Laws
Bishop Paul E. Waldschmidt, DD, CSC – Doctor of Laws
Miss Mary McCravey – Doctor of Public Service
Rev. Edward A. Malloy CSC – Doctor of Laws
John J. Fitzgerald, CSC – Doctor of Humane Letters
George Lyman Dum, CSC – Doctor of Humane Letters
John J. Hooyboer, CSC – Doctor of Human Letters
Afaf Ibrahim Meleis – Doctor of Public Service
David B. Frohnmayer – Doctor of Public Service
Mark O. Hatfield – Doctor of Public Service
Roger Michael Mahony, Archbishop of L.A. – Doctor of Laws
Richard V. Warner CSC – Doctor of Laws
Robert Franz – Doctor of Public Service
Jaime Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila – Doctor of Letters
Martin M. McLaughlin – Doctor of Public Service
Earl M. Chiles – Doctor of Public Service
The Most Reverend William J. Levada – Doctor of Letters
The Most Reverend Richard C. Hanifen, DLit
Stephen P. Newton, DPS
Most Reverend Sylvester W. Treinen – Doctor of Laws, LLD
Jean Auel – Doctor of Letters, DLit
James DePreist, DFA
Most Rev. Thomas J. Murphy, DL
Most Reverend Lawrence H. Welsh, LHD
Maurie D. Clark, DPS
Gordon E. Moore, DPS
Most Rev. John S. Cummins, LHD
Mercedes McCambridge, DFA
Most Rev. Elden F. Curtiss, DD, LHD
Rev. Michael G. O’ Brien, CSC, LD
Rev. Joseph Leo Powers, CSC
Thomas Patrick Melady, DPS
The Most Reverend Raymond Gerhardt Hunthausen, LLD
Brother David Martin, CSC, LHD
Harold Taylor, LLD
Pauline Frederick, LHD
Rev. Paul C. Reinert, SJ, DPS
Bishop Felixberto Flores, DD, LLD
Sister Sally Furay, RSCJ, LHD
Bernard Eugene Niedermeyer, Sr., DPS
Pietro Belluschi, DFA
William L. McCoy. LLD
Anthony J. Weber, H.D.
William H. Hunt, LHD
John F. Kilkenny, LLD
Most Reverend Francis T Hurley, LLD
Joseph R. Bianco, LHD
Patricia Roberts Harris, LLD
Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, CSC, LHD
Most Reverend Cornelius M. Power, DD, JCD, LHD
Aaron Copland, DFA
Most Reverend Joseph Kelanthara, LLD
Loren D. McKinley, ScD
Dr. Rheba de Tornyay, LHD
La, Un-Yung, LHD
Most Rev. Joseph L. Howze, DD, LLD
Dr. J. H. Hexter, LLD
Mr. Martin Gang, LLD
John Doucette, AED
Warren H. Phillips, LLD
Most Reverend Edward L. Heston, LLD (posthumously)
Roger L. Conkling
Most Reverend Thomas J. Connolly, LHD
The Honorable Helen Delich Bentley, LHD
The Honorable Terry D. Schrunk, LLD
Robert Boisseau Pamplin, Sr., LLD
Robert Biosseau Pamplin, Jr. LLD
The Most Rev. Mark J. Hurley, LLD
Jay Saunders Redding, LHD
Sylvia Porter (Mrs. G. Sumner Collins), LLD
Harrison Evans Salisbury, LHD
Mr. George A. Lamb, LLD
Colonel Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., ScD
Charles Stark Draper, ScD
Reverend Colman J. Barry, LHD
Mr. James L. Buckley, LLD
The Honorable Edith Green (in absentia), LHD
Ann Blyth (Mrs. James V. McNulty), AED
Dudley Dowell, LLD
Monsignor John Tracy Ellis, LHD
George Edward Mulgrue, LLD
Dr. Howard A. Rusk, ScD
Dr. Edward Staunton West, ScD
Dr. Harry L. Dillin, LHD
Dr. Maria G. Mayer, ScD
Harding L. Lawrence, LLD
The Most Rev. James V. Casey, DD, LLD
Dr. Howard H. Hanson, AED
John T. Cunniff, LHD
Arthur Sherwood Flemming, LHD
Right Rev. Monsignor C. O’Neil D’Amour, LLD
Rosalind Russell (Mrs. Frederick Brisson), AED
Patrick Michael McGrady, ScD
Eva Adams, LLD
The Most Rev. John J. Scanlan, DD, LLD
Paul D. Woodring, LLD
Jacob Avshalomov, AED
M. Jack Murdock, LHD
The Most Reverend Victor J. Reed, LLD
John J. Snyder, Jr. (Posthum ously)
Frederick D. Rossini, Sc.D
John T. Hayward, ScD
Lena F. Edwards, LHD
His Excellency Sergio Gutierrez-Olivos
Owen Robertson Cheatham, LLD
The Most Reverend Hugh A. Donohoe, DD, LLD
Walter F. Sheehan, LLD
Angus L. Bowmer, AED
Dorothy Buffum Chandler, AED
Rev. Charles C. Miltner, CSC, LHD
Brother Godfrey Vassallo, CSC, ScD
The Most Rev. Robert J. Dwyer, DD, LLD
Frank Marion Folsom, LLD
Mother Mary Philothea, FCSP, LLD
Edwin Harold Shipstad, AED
The Very Rev. Howard J. Kenna, CSC, LLD
Mortimer J. Alder, LLD
Arnold B. Peterschmidt, LLD
The Most Reverend Thomas E. Gill, DD, LLD
The Honorable Arthur J. Goldberg, LLD
The Reverend William H. McDougall, LLD
F. Leo Smith, LLD
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edmund G. Van der Zanden, LLD
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Philip Hughes, LLD
The Reverend Willis Whalen, LLD
The Most Reverend James J. Byrne, DD, LLD
Anthony Brandenthaler, LLD
The Most Reverend Leonard P. Cowley, DD, LLD
Reverend Louis J. Putz, CSC, LLD
Henry J. Kaiser, Jr., LLD
Theodore Bloomfield, LLD
The Most Reverend Joseph Lennox Federal, DD, LLD
Gardiner Howland Shaw, LLD
Thomas Cardinal Tien, SVD, LLD
The Most Rev. Thomas A. Connolly, DD, LLD
Eugene E. Trefethen, LLD
Harry W. Morrison, LLD
The Most Rev. Bernard J. Topal, LLD
The Honorable Paul K. T. Sih, LLD
Lawrence Welk, AED
Louis P. Artau, Mus. D.
The Most Rev. William Mark Duke, DD, LLD
John Lawrence Sullivan, LLD
Edgar Fosburg Kaiser, LLD
Owen Patrick McNulty (Dennis Day), LLD
General Carlos P. Romulo, LLD
Rt. Rev. Abbott Peter Damian Jentges, O.S.B., LLD
Rt. Rev. Msgr. Charles Marcus Smith, LLD
Harry Clyde Blair, M.D., LLD
The Very Rev. Joseph Fulton, O.P., LLD
The Honorable John C. H. Wu, LLD
The Honorable Dorothy McCullough Lee, LLD
Arthur Russell Moore, ScD
His Eminence Richard Cardinal Cushing, DD, LLD
The Very Rev. Albert A. Lemieux, SJ, LLD
The Rev. Martin Thielen, LLD
Major General William E. Hall, USAF, LLD
Walter Houser Brattain, LLD
Howard Vollum, ScD
John A Zehntbauer, LLD
Very Rev. Christopher J. O’Toole, CSC, LLD
Aaron M. Frank, LLD
The Most Rev. Edward D. Howard, DD, LLD
Rev. Theodore J. Mehling, CSC, LLD
The Most Rev. Joseph P. Dougherty, LLD
E. C. Sammons, LLD
The Most Rev. Leo F. Fahey, DD
Rex Putnam, LLD
Mme. Lotte Lehmann, Mus. D.
The Most Rev. William J. Condon, DD, LLD
Edgar W. Smith, LLD
Rt. Rev. J. G. Stafford
Ben Hur Lampman
Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edward J. Murnane, LLD
David W. E. Baird, M.D., LLD
The Rev. Robert H. Sweeney, CSC, LLD
Joaquin Felix dos Reis, LLD
Theodore R. Gamble, LLD
Carlos Alberto Alvarado, M.D., LLD
The Rt. Rev. Raphael Heider, OSB, LLD
Frank R. Menne, MD, LLD
The Most Rev. Francis P. Leipzig, DD, LLD
The Honorable Donald E. Long, LLD
Rt. Rev. Msgr. George J. Campbell, LLD
(Major) Joseph K. Carson, Jr.
The Rt. Rev. John F. Gallagher
The Honorable Hall S. Lusk, LLD
The Most Rev. Charles D. White, DD
Brother Arator Justin, F.S.C.
Charles A. Howard, LLD
Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thomas J. Tobin, LLD
The Honorable John P. Kavanaugh
Hopkin Jenkins
Sister Miriam Theresa, SHN, LLD
Eva Emery Dye
His Eminence Amleto Cardinal Giovanni Cicognani, DD, LLD
The Rt. Rev. Lambert Burton, OSB
The Honorable John I. O’Phelan
David W. Hazen
Jane V. Doyle, LLD
The Rt. Rev. Arthur C. Lane
The Most Rev. Gerald Shaughnessy, SM
Thomas Martin Joyce, M.D.
The Most Rev. Edward J. Kelly
The Most Rev. Duane G. Hunt, LLD
The Honorable (Gen.) Charles H. Martin
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