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HONORARY DEGREES CONFERRED
1954-Present
Alphabetical Listing
A
Abella, Rosalie S. (LLD S'88)
Adams, John W. (LLD. '83)
Adamson, Anthony (LLD Spring '85)
Adaskin, Murray (D.Mus. '77)
Ajlouni, Kamel (LLD S'96)
Alfieri, Domenic A. (LLD F'96)
Alfos, Paul (D. Humanities S'07)
Anastasi, Anne (D. Litt. '67)
Applebaum, Louis (D. Humanities S'94)
Arbour, Louise(Madame Justice) (LLD S’01)
Archer, Violet (D.Mus Fall '86)
Arthurs, Harry (DCL S’04)
Ashby, Sir Eric (D.Sc. '7l)
B
Baetz, Hon. Reuben C. (LLD '79)
Baillargeon, Edward (LLD '83)
Ballard, Bristow Guy (D.Sc. '6l)
Barkham, Selma Huxley (D.Litt F'85)
Baxter&, Iain (D. Humanities S'07)
Beaudoin, James J. (LLD S’00)
Beetz, The Hon. Jean (D.C.L. '78)
Beigie, Carl (LLD S'85)
Begin, Monique (LLD Spring ‘02)
Bellringer, Stephen (LLD S'96)
Belyea, Helen R. (D.Sc. '76)
Bergson, Abram (LLD '79)
Bernardi, Mario (D.Mus. '78)
Berrill, Norman John (LLD '66)
Bertell, Rosalie (D.Sc. Spring '88)
Berton, Pierre (D.Litt. S'8l)
Bird, The Hon. Florence (D.Litt. S'89)
Bissell, Claude Thomas (LLD '68)
Black, Conrad M. (D.Litt.'79)
Blake, Colleen (D. Humanities S’04)
Blanchard, James (LLD S'95)
Bonisteel, Roy (LLD S'82)
Bowlby, E. Margaret (D.Mus. S'82)
Broadfoot, Dave (D. Humanities S’00)
Brockenshire, John (LLD F'07)
Brockenshire, Norma (D. Civ. Law F'07)
Brown, David Reid (LLD '77)
Brown, Rosemary (LLB Spring '91)
Burns, Eedson Louis Millard (LLD'74)
Burt, George Graham (LLD '68) **
C
Callaghan, Morley (D.Litt. '73)
Campbell, Gladyes Emily (LLD '57) **
Camu, Pierre (LLD Spring '86)
Cardinal, Douglas J. (LLD S'92)
Cariou, Len (D.Litt. S'84)
Carmichael, Harry John (D.Sc.Bus.Ad. S'63)
Carr, Henry (LLD '55) **
Carter, Most Rev.G.Emmett (LLD '77)
Casgrain, Therese (LLD S'8l) **
Charbonneau, Paul (Fall '88 LLD)
Cimolino, Antoni (D. Humanities S’04)
Clark, Charles J.(Assumption '70 LLD) **
Clark, Charles J. (LLD S'90) **
Clifford, Frank (LLD S'95)
Closs, Maurice Joseph (Moe), LL.D. S '89
Cohen, Job (LLD S'07)
Colville, David Alexander (LLD '73)
Condrick, James Albert (LLD '54)
Convey, John (D.Sc. '65)
Cook, Ramsay (D.Litt. S '89)
Cory, Peter deCarteret (D.C.L. F'90)
Corry, James Alexander (D.C.L. '68) **
Coughlin, Claire (Assumption '70 LLD)
Crawford, Purdy (LLD S'09))
Cronk, Elanore (DCL S’04)
Curtis, Christopher Paul (LLD S'09)
D
Daniells, J.Roy (D.Litt.May '7l) **
Davidson, Janet M. (LLD S'09)
Davies, Robertson (D.Litt.Oct. '7l)
Davis, William Grenville (LLD '69)
Deane, Joseph R. (Assumption '70 LLD)
DeMarco, Frank A. (DEd Fall'86)
Deutsch, John James (LLD '64) **
Dickason, Olive Patricia (D.Litt. S'96)
Dickson, Brian (DCL S'88)
Diefenbaker, John George (LLD '59) **
Dobrin, Mitzi (D.Sc.Bus.Ad. Spring '86)
Drouin, Marie-Josee (LLD Spring '86)
Dryden, Ken (LLD, S'97)
Du Gas, Beverly M. (LL.D. '72)
Dunlop, William James (LLD '57) **
Dupuy, Diane (D.Litt. Spring '86)
Dwyer, J. Wilfrid (LLD S'85)
Dwyer, Paul Sumner (D.Sc.Oct '7l)**
E
Ewayshyn, Frank (LLD S’01)
F
Fanfani, Amintore (LLD S'88)
Fantazzi, Charles (D. Humanities, S’99)
Fedoruk, Sylvia (D.Sc. Spring '87)
Feore, Colm (D. Hum ‘Spring 02)
Fine, Louis (LLD '64) **
Fisher, Archbp.Geoffrey Francis (LLD '62) **
Flahiff, His Emin. George B. Cardinal (LLD '70)
Folinsbee, Robert Edward (LLD '72)
Forrester, Maureen (LLD S'88)
Franca, Celia (LLD '59)
Franssen, Margot A. C. (LLD F'94)
Freed, Gerald L. (Assumption D. Laws S'94)
Freedman, Samuel (LLD '60)
Frost, Leslie Miscampbell (LLD '54) **
Frye, H. Northrop (D. Litt. '70)
Fuerth, Anthony F.(Assumption '70 LLD) **
Fulci, Francesco Paolo (LLD F'8l)
G
Gale, Hon. George A. (LLD '80)
Geller, Jacob David (LLD '80) **
Girardot, Celia Rose (LLD '57) **
Glaze, Avis (LLD S'08)
Goldin, Eli C. (LLD '57)
Goodwin, Betty (D. Humanities S'97)
Gotlieb, Allan Ezra (LLD, Special '82)
Gray, Hon. Herbert Eser (LLD '83)
Greenspan, Edward L. (LLD ‘ Spring 02)
Griesinger, William (LLD '57) **
Grossman-Ianni, Mina (LLD ‘03)
Guinan, Reverend Vincent Joseph (LLD '63) **
Gzowski, Peter (LLD Spring '87)
H
Haig, Susan (DHum S'98)
Hall, Emmett Matthew (D.C.L. '68)
Hall, George Edward (LLD '54) **
Halliwell, Janet (D.Sc. S'93)
Halpenny, Francess G. ( S'92)
Hare, Kenneth (Fall '88 D.Sc.)
Hargrove, Basil ‘Buzz’ (LLD ‘03)
Harrison, George Bagshawe (LLD '62) **
Hatch, H. Clifford (D Hum S’01)
Hartford, Jerome R. (Assumption '70 LLD)
Hatch, H. Clifford (Assumption '70 LLD)
Henderson, Florence (LLD Fall '86)
Henry, Martha (LLB Spring '91)
Herzberg, Gerhard (D.Sc. '70)
Hilberry, Clarence Beverly (LLD '63) **
Hill, Henry Gordon (LLD '76)
Highway, Tomson (DHum ‘03)
Holmes, John Wendell (D.Litt. '80) **
Hurst, Michael D. (LLD F'96)
Hyland, Frances (LLD Spring '87)
I
Isaac, Julius A. (D.Laws S'94)
Ivor, Hance Roy (D.Sc. '73) **
J
Jablonski, Aleksander (D.Sc. '73)**
Jackman, Henry (LLB Spring '91)
Jacobs, Burton (LLD Spring '85)
Jamieson, Roberta (LLB Spring '91)
Jasperson, Frederick K. (Posth. LLD F'82) **
Jeffery, Ralph Lent (LLD '62)
Johnson, Harry Gordon (LLD '66) **
Jones, Howard Mumford (LLD '69) **
Jones, Oliver, (D. Music, S’99)
Jones, Richard Ditzel (LLD '68)
Joy, Bruce Thomas (LLD ‘98)
K
Kasurak, Valerie (LLD Spring '86)
Kaunda, Kenneth David (LLD '66)
Kenner, William Hugh (D.Litt Spring '84)
Kerwin, Larkin (D.Sc. F'84)
Kerwin, Patrick (LLD '56) **
Kim, Lyun-Joon (LLD '72)
Kirkconnel, Watson (D.Litt. '55) **
Kishkon, Elizabeth (LLD Fall '86)
Kornberg, Allan (LLD S'92)
Kurelek, William (LLD '77) **
L
Labelle, Huguette (D.Sc. S'90)
LaForest, Gérard V. (D.Civ.Law - S'98)
Lajeunesse, Ernest J. (Assumption '70 D.Litt.)
Lamb, William Kaye (LLD '58)
Lambert, Phyllis (LLD F'89)
Lamoureux, The Hon. Lucien (DCL '78)
Landry, Yves (LLD S'95) **
Laskin, Bora (DCL '70) **
Laumann, Silken (LLD, F'97)
Lawson, Doug (LLD s'08)
LeBel, Rev. Eugene Carlisle (LLD '66) **
Leddy, John Francis (LLD '56)(D.Litt. S'88)
Leddy, Sister Mary Jo (LLD S'90)
Lee, M. Owen (D.Letters S'94)
Legare, Henry F. (LLB, F'60)
Leighton, David (LLD '72)
Lemelin, Roger (LLD Fall '82)
Lemieux, Marc C. (LLD S'90)
Lesa, Suzanne (LLD S’00)
LeSage, Patrick J. (DCL, S’96)
L’Heureux-Dubè, Claire (D.C.L. S’00)
Lewis, Stephen (LLD S '88)
Linton, Jean Elizabeth (LLD '79)
Lloyd, Trevor (LLD '73)
Longman, Jack (LLD F '8l) **
Lougheed, Peter (LLD S '88)
Lynch, Abbyann Day (LLD S'95)
M
MacDonald, Ann-Marie (D. Hummanitie S'08)
Macdonald, Bruce J.S (LLD S '8l) **
MacDonald, Donald (LLD '74) **
MacDonald, George Fortune (LLD '54) **
Macdonald, John Barfoot (D.Sc. '77)
MacDonald, Thomas Aloysius (LLD '62)
MacEwan, Sydney (D.Mus. '55)
MacGill, Elsie Gregory (D.Sc. '76) **
MacGuigan, Hon. Mark (LLD Fall '83) **
MacLennan, Hugh (D.Litt. '75)
MacLeod, Alistair (LLD F’00)
MacLeod, Clare R. (LLD '75)
MacKay-Lassonde, Claudette (D.Engin. S '86)
MacNabb, Gordon Murray (D.Sc. '80)
Maillet, Antonine (D.Litt '80)
Mann, George S. (LLD S'90)
Mann, John L. (D. Engin F’04)
Martin, Paul Joseph James (LLD '54) **
Martin, Paul (LLD S'07)
Masson, Henri Leopold (LLD '55)
Maus, John H. (D.Sc. Spring '85)
Maxwell, Jackie (D. Humanities S'07)
McClelland, Jack (D. Litt. F'91)
McClure, Robert Baird (LLD '69)
McConica, James K. (D.Litt. F'89)
McGee, John E. (LLD S'97)
McGibbon, Pauline (LLD S'88)
McGivney, John (LLD F '85)
McGregor, Walter Leishman (LLD '65)
McLaughlin, Roland Rusk (D.Sc. '6l) **
McLean, Stuart (LLD S’04)
McLuhan, Herbert Marshall (D.Litt. '65) **
McPherson, Leon Z. (LLD '83)
McQuoid-Mason, David
McRuer, James Chalmers (D.C.L. '70) **
McTague, Charles Patrick (LLD '54)**
Meanwell, Robert W. (Assumption '70 LLD)
Mellanby, Ralph (LLD, S'89)
Michener, Rt. Hon. D. Roland (DCL '69)
Millen, Stephen Foster (LLD '55) **
Miller, Donna J. D. (LLD, S’99)
Milne, Eleanor (D.Hum. S'93)
Miner, Jasper W. (LLD '77)
Miner, Manly F. (LLD '77) **
Mitchell, William Ormond (D.Litt '82)
Monette, Richard (DHum F'95)
Montrose, Georgina (LLD '68) **
Moore, J. Mavor (D.Litt. S '86)
Morand, Hon. Donald R. (LLD '79)
Morris, Philip Robert (LLD '58) **
Muckle, Reverend Joseph Thomas (LLD '57) **
Murphy, Rev. J. Stanley (LLD '79) **
N
Nagy, Nataley (DHum S'98)
Neatby, Hilda (D. Litt. '74) **
Nepinak, Michael (LLD ‘03)
Neville, Kenneth P.R. (LLD '57) **
Nirenberg, Marshall W. (LLD '66)
Norris, Leonard M. (LLD '73)
Nunan, George Edward (LLD '57) **
O
Odette, Edmond G. (D.Laws S'94)
Odette, Edmond G. (Assumption '70 LLD)
Odette, Louis L. (D. Laws S'94)
O'Donoghue, Mary Helen (LLD '54) **
Olivieri, Nancy Ferm (DSc ‘03)
Onley, David (LLD S'08)
Ostry, Sylvia (LLD Spring '87)
P
Pare, George William (D.Litt. '54)
Parent, Alphonse-Marie (D.Litt. '67) **
Parent, Gary (LLD S'96)
Parent, Madeleine (LLD F '85)
Parker, Alton C. (LLD F '87)
Parr, James Gordon (LLD S '84)
Parr, Joy (D.Letters S'97)
Pawley, Howard R. (LLD S'93)
Pearson, Lester Bowles (LLD '63) **
Peddie, Richard (LLD S’01)
Pelletier, Hon. Gerard (LLD '69)
Philip, Brother Roger (LLD '64) **
Piper, Martha (LLD F'07)
Pocock, Reverend Philip Francis (LLD '6l) **
Pound, Richard W. (LLD S'97)
Pratt, Edwin John (D. Litt. '55) **
Pryor, Timothy R. (D.Sc. '80)
Purves, Clifford Burrough (D.Sc. '64) **
R
Raymondis, Louis-Marie (DHum F '92)
Rayson, Canon Robert S. (LLD S '86)
Read, Horace Emerson (DCL '74)
Rivers, F. Stanley (LLD '59)
Roach, William Joseph (LLD '54) **
Rock, Allan M. (DCivil Laws S'96)
Rohmer, Richard (LLD '75)
Rooney, Msgr. John A. (Assumption '70 LLD) **
Ross, Malcolm (D.Litt. S'89)
Rourke, Byron P. (LLD F‘04)
Rubes, Jan (LLD S'98)
Russell, Anna (D.Mus. Fall '87)
Ruth, Rev. Norbert J. (LLD '78)
Ryan, John Arthur (LLD '62) **
Ryan, Leo J. (Assumption '70 LLD)
S
Saddlemyer, Ann (D.Litt. F'90)
Sale, Rhys Manly (D.Sc. in Bus. Ad. '6l)
Salmon, E. Togo (LLD '72) **
Saltmarche, Kenneth Charles (LLD '76)
Sanderson, Marie (LLD, S’99)
Scherer, Steven ((Dsc S’01)
Scott, Francis Reginald (D.C.L. '70) **
Schindler, David William (LLD F ‘02)
Selye, Hans (D.Sc. '55) **
Sereda, Peter John (D.Sc. S '8l)
Sheedy, Matthew P. (Assumption '70 LLD) **
Sherlock, J. Michael (LLD S '85)
Shoyama, Thomas (LLD S '84)
Silcox, David P. (D.Litt. S'90)
Simpson, Jeffrey Carl (LLD S'09)
Smallwood, Joseph Robers (LLD '67)
Smedick, Lois, Katherine (D. Humanities S’00)
Smith, J. Herbert (D.Sc. '6l)
Smith, J. Percy (LLD '74)
Smith, Michael (LLD S'98)
Smith, Sidney Earle (D.Litt. '57) **
Somerville Margaret A. (LLD S'92)
Somerville, William Henry (LLD S'89)
Spinks, John William Tranter (D.Sc. '6l)
Steen, Andrea (LLD S’ 02)
Stephenson, Sir William (D.Sc. F'85 - In Absentia) **Jan89
Stodgell, Simeon J. (LLD S'97) **
Stoicheff, Boris (D.Sc. F'89)
Strong, Maurice (LLD S '87)
Strosberg, Harvey (DCivil Law ‘03)
Stuart, John Jamieson (LLD '73)
Suzuki, David Takayoshi (D.Sc. '79)
T
Tang, Ao-qing (Auchin Tang) (LLD Special F'86)
Tarnopolsky, Walter (DCL S '87) **
Tebbs, Robert James (LLD '79)
Thant, U (LLD '66) **
Thibert, Audrey (LLD S’04)
Thibert, Roger (D.Sc. S’04)
Thistle, Paul (LLD S'08)
Thompson, Walter Palmer (LLD '55) **
Thomson, Shirley (DLitt S'96)
Thomson, Virgil (D.Mus. F '8l)
Tilston, Col. Frederick A. (LLD '77)
Tippett, Maria W. (D. Laws S'94)
Todgham, Mrs. R.W. (LLD '77)
Toldo, Anthony Peter (LLD, S’99)
Tolmie, John Ross (LLD '62)
Tarokh, Vahid (DSc ‘03)
Tremblay, Michel (D.Litt. S'93)
Tremonti, Anna Maria (LLD S’01)
Trudell, Cynthia (LLD F ‘99)
Trueman, Albert William (D.Litt. '65) **
Twaits, William Osborn (LLD '78)
Twining, William Lawrence (LLD S09)
V
Vanier, Hon. Pauline (LLD '69)
Vanier, Hon. Geroge Philias (LLD '6l) **
Van Vliet, Maurice Lewis (LLD '78)
Venkateswarlu, Tadiboyina (D. Humanities S'07)
Vickers, Jon (D.Mus., S'89)
W
Walters, Chester Samuel (D.C.L. '56)
Watson, John H. L. (DHum F'92)
Watt-Cloutier, Sheila (LLD S'08)
Weeks, Albert H. (LLD '83) **
Weller, George R. (Assumption '70) **
Wells, The Hon. Thomas (D. Litt. S '85)
Welsh, Harry Lambert (D.Sc. '64)
Wey, Reverend Joseph Charles (LLD '63) **
Whelan, Hon. Eugene (LLD F '83)
White, Bruce (LLD Spring ‘02)
White, Robert, (LLD F '89)
Whiteside, John Walker (LLD F’01)
Whiting, Ragnhild (LLD S'90)
Wilkinson, William (LLD S '82)
Williams, D. Carlton (LLD '77)
Williams, Edgar Trevor (LLD '69)
Wilson, Hon. Bertha (DCL F '85)
Winterbottom, Anne (LLD S'95)
Winterbottom, Clare (LLD S'95)
Wisdom, Sheila Elizabeth (LLD S’04)
Z
Ziegler, Earle F. (LLD '75)
Zimmerman, George Herbert (D.Sc.Bus.Ad. '6l) **
Zimmerman, Mary Helen (LLD '57) **
Znaimer, Moses (LLD ‘03)
Zuber, The Hon. Thomas G. (D.C.L. '77)
Chronological
ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR
* Convocation Address
** Deceased
FIRST CONVOCATION (Spring 1954)
Leslie Miscampbell Frost - Doctor of Laws (Premier of Ontario) **
Paul Joseph James Martin - Doctor of Laws (External Affairs Minister) **
George Edward Hall - Doctor of Laws (President, U. of Western Ontario) **
Charles Patrick McTague - Doctor of Laws (leading Windsor lawyer) **
Mary Helen O'Donoghue - Doctor of Laws (prominent Windsor teacher) **
George Fortune MacDonald - Doctor of Laws (prominent local historian) **
William Joseph Roach - Doctor of Laws (Canadian judge) **
James Albert Condrick - Doctor of Laws
George William Pare - Doctor of Letters
SECOND CONVOCATION (Fall 1954)
(No honorary degrees)
THIRD CONVOCATION (Spring 1955)
Henry Carr - Doctor of Laws **
Henri Leopold Masson - Doctor of Laws (Canadian artist) **
Walter Palmer Thompson - Doctor of Laws (President, U. of Saskatchewan) **
Watson Kirkconnel - Doctor of Letters (English scholar) **
Edwin John Pratt - Doctor of Letters (Canadian poet) **
Hans Selye - Doctor of Science (scientist, expert on tension & stress) **
FOURTH CONVOCATION (Fall 1955)
Stephen Foster Millen - Doctor of Laws (Essex County doctor) **
Sydney MacEwan - Doctor of Music (Canadian singer)
FIFTH CONVOCATION (Spring 1956)
John Francis Leddy - Doctor of Laws (prominent Canadian educator)
SIXTH CONVOCATION (Fall 1956)
Patrick Kerwin - Doctor of Laws (Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada) **
Chester Samuel Walters - Doctor of Civil Law
SEVENTH CONVOCATION, Centennial (Spring 1957)
William James Dunlop - Doctor of Laws (Minister of Education) **
Eli C. Goldin - Doctor of Laws (local merchant, philanthropist)
William Griesinger - Doctor of Laws (former cabinet minister) **
Joseph Thomas Muckle - Doctor of Laws (President, Assumption College 1919-22) **
Kenneth Percival Rutherford Neville - Doctor of Laws (in absentia) **
George Edward Nunan - Doctor of Laws **
Sidney Earle Smith - Doctor of Letters (President, U. of Toronto; External Affairs Minister) **
EIGHTH CONVOCATION (Fall 1957)
Gladyes Emily Campbell - Doctor of Laws (Philanthropist) **
Celia Rose Girardot - Doctor of Laws (granddaughter of 1st lay teacher at Assumption College) **
Mary Helen Zimmerman - Doctor of Laws (lawyer, friend of Assumption) **
NINTH CONVOCATION (Spring 1958)
William Kaye Lamb - Doctor of Laws (retired Librarian of Canada)
TENTH CONVOCATION (Fall 1958)
Philip Robert Morris - Doctor of Laws (Vice-Chancellor, U of Bristol) **
ELEVENTH CONVOCATION (Spring 1959)
Celia Franca - Doctor of Laws (Artistic Director, National Ballet of Canada)
F. Stanley Rivers - Doctor of Laws (Deputy Minister of Education) **
TWELFTH CONVOCATION (Fall 1959)
John George Diefenbaker - Doctor of Laws (Prime Minister of Canada) **
THIRTEENTH CONVOCATION (Spring 1960)
Samuel Freedman - Doctor of Laws (Judge of Manitoba High Court)
FOURTEENTH CONVOCATION (Fall 1960)
Henri F. Legare - Doctor of Laws (Archbishop of St. Paul, Alberta)
FIFTEENTH CONVOCATION (Spring 1961)
Roland Rusk McLaughlin - Doctor of Science (Dean of Engineering, U. of Toronto) **
Philip Francis Pocock - Doctor of Laws (Archbishop of Toronto) **
SIXTEENTH CONVOCATION (Fall 1961)
Rhys Manly Sale - Doctor of Science in Bus. Admin. (Pres. Ford Motor Co.) **
George Herbert Zimmerman - Doctor of Science in Bus. Admin. (member, Board of Regents; businessman) **
Bristow Guy Ballard - Doctor of Science (former member National Research Council) **
J. Herbert Smith - Doctor of Science
John William Tranter Spinks - Doctor of Science (President, U. of Saskatchewan)
SPECIAL CONVOCATION (December 1961)
George Philias Vanier - Doctor of Laws (Governor General of Canada) **
SEVENTEENTH CONVOCATION (Spring 1962)
George Bagshawe Harrison - Doctor of Laws **
Ralph Lent Jeffery - Doctor of Laws
Thomas Aloysius MacDonald - Doctor of Laws (former President, Assumption College)
EIGHTEENTH CONVOCATION (Fall 1962)
Geoffrey Francis Fisher - Doctor of Laws (Archbishop of Canterbury) **
John Arthur Ryan - Doctor of Laws
John Ross Tolmie - Doctor of Laws (lawyer, supporter of Can-Am Seminar)
NINETEENTH CONVOCATION (Spring 1963)
Harry John Carmichael - D. Sc. in Bus. Admin. (leader in fund drive) **
Vincent Joseph Guinan - Doctor of Laws (former President, Assumption College) **
Lester Bowles Pearson - Doctor of Laws (Prime Minister of Canada, External Affairs Minister) **
TWENTIETH CONVOCATION (Fall 1963)
Clarence Beverly Hilberry - Doctor of Laws (President, Wayne State Univ.) **
Joseph Charles Wey - Doctor of Laws (Superior General, Basilian Fathers) **
SPECIAL CONVOCATION (Dec. 8, 1970) (Staunch friends of Assumption College)
Charles J. Clark - Doctor of Laws (lawyer) **
Claire Coughlin - Doctor of Laws (teacher)
Joseph R. Deane - Doctor of Laws (businessman)
Anthony F. Fuerth - Doctor of Laws (benefactor) **
Jerome R. Hartford - Doctor of Laws (UAW)
H. Clifford Hatch - Doctor of Laws (businessman)
Ernest J. Lajeunesse - Doctor of Letters (historian)
Robert W. Meanwell - Doctor of Laws (accountant)
Edward G. Odette - Doctor of Laws (businessman)
Msgr. John A. Rooney - Doctor of Laws (monsignor) **
Leo J. Ryan - Doctor of Laws (businessman)
Matthew P. Sheedy - Doctor of Laws (teacher) **
George R. Weller - Doctor of Laws (fund drive) **
UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR
FIRST CONVOCATION (Spring 1964)
Brother Roger Philip - Doctor of Laws (Professor Emeritus, Assumption University) **
John James Deutsch - Doctor of Laws **
SECOND CONVOCATION (Fall 1964)
Louis Fine - Doctor of Laws (negotiator, labour relations) **
Clifford Burrough Purves - Doctor of Science in Chemistry **
Harry Lambert Welsh - Doctor of Science in Physics (Canadian physicist)
THIRD CONVOCATION (Spring 1965)
Walter Leishman McGregor - Doctor of Laws (Essex County lawyer)
Herbert Marshall McLuhan - Doctor of Laws (communications expert) **
Albert William Trueman - Doctor of Letters **
FOURTH CONVOCATION (Fall 1965)
John Convey - Doctor of Science
FIFTH CONVOCATION (Spring 1966)
Harry Gordon Johnson - Doctor of Laws (economist) **
Eugene Carlisle LeBel - Doctor of Laws (first President, Univ. of Windsor) **
U. Thant - Doctor of Laws (Secretary-General, United Nations) **
SIXTH CONVOCATION (Fall 1966)
Norman John Berrill - Doctor of Laws (Canadian zoologist)
Marshall Warren Nirenberg - Doctor of Laws (U.S. biochemist)
SPECIAL CONVOCATION (November 16, 1966)
Kenneth David Kaunda - Doctor of Laws (President of Zambia)
SEVENTH CONVOCATION (Spring 1967)
Joseph Roberts Smallwood - Doctor of Laws (Premier of Newfoundland)
EIGHTH CONVOCATION (Fall 1967)
Anne Anastasi - Doctor of Letters (U.S. psychologist)
Alphonse-Marie Parent - Doctor of Letters (former Rector of Laval Univ.) **
NINTH CONVOCATION (Spring 1968)
Claude Thomas Bissell - Doctor of Laws (President, Univ. of Toronto)
George Graham Burt - Doctor of Laws (U.A.W. leader) **
Richard Ditzel Jones - Doctor of Laws (President, Can. Council of Xians & Jews)
Georgina Montrose - Doctor of Laws (local civic leader) **
TENTH CONVOCATION (Fall 1968)
James Alexander Corry - Doctor of Civil Law (Principal, Queen's Univ.)
Emmett Matthew Hall- Doctor of Civil Law (Judge of Supreme Court)
ELEVENTH CONVOCATION (Spring 1969)
The Right Hon. Daniel Roland Michener, CC., D.C. - Doctor of Civil Law (Governor-General of Canada)
William Grenville Davis - Doctor of Laws (premier, Minister of Univ. Affairs)
Howard Mumford Jones - Doctor of Laws (Harvard Professor of Humanities) **
Robert Baird McClure - Doctor of Laws (Moderator, United Church)
Edgar Trevor Williams - Doctor of Laws (Warden, Rhodes House, Oxford)
TWELFTH CONVOCATION (Fall 1969)
The Hon. Pauline Vanier, P.C., CC. - Doctor of Laws (Chancellor, Univ. of Ottawa)
The Hon. Gerard Pelletier, P.C. - Doctor of Laws (Canadian Secretary of State)
THIRTEENTH CONVOCATION (Spring 1970)
Gerhard Herzberg - Doctor of Science (National Research Council)
His Eminence George B. Cardinal Flahiff - Doctor of Laws (Archbishop of Winnipeg)
SPECIAL CONVOCATION (September 1970)
Bora Laskin - Doctor of Civil Law (Supreme Court Justice) **
James Chalmers McRuer - Dr. of Civil Law (former Chief Justice, High Court of Ont)**
Francis Reginald Scott - Doctor of Civil Law (former Dean, McGill Fac. of Law) **
FOURTEENTH CONVOCATION (Fall 1970)
Herman Northrop Frye - Doctor of Letters (Canadian writer and educator)
FIFTEENTH CONVOCATION (Spring 1971)
Sir Eric Ashby - Doctor of Science (Master, Clare College, Cambridge Univ.)
J. Roy Daniells - Doctor of Letters (English Prof. at Univ. of B.C.) **
SIXTEENTH CONVOCATION (Fall 1971)
Robertson Davies - Doctor of Letters (Master of Massey Coll; literary critic, novelist)
Paul Dwyer - Doctor of Science (mathematician, Univ. of Michigan) **
SEVENTEENTH CONVOCATION (May 20, 1972)
Beverly DuGas - LL.D. (Nursing Consultant, Dept. of National Health & Welfare)
Kim Lyun-Joon - LL.D. (President, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea)
David S.R. Leighton - LL.D. (Director, The Banff Centre)
EIGHTEENTH CONVOCATION (June 3, 1972)
Robert Edward Folinsbee - LL.D. (Prof. of Geology, Univ. of Alberta)
NINETEENTH CONVOCATION (October 7, 1972)
E. Togo Salmon - LL.D. (Messecar Prof. of History, McMaster University) **
TWENTIETH CONVOCATION (May 26-27, 1973)
Morley Callaghan - D. Litt. (Canadian novelist)
H. Roy Ivor - D. Sc. (Canadian naturalist) **
Aleksander Jablonski - D. Sc. (Polish atomic & molecular physicist) **
Trevor Lloyd - LL.D. (Canadian geographer)
Leonard M. Norris - LL.D. (Canadian cartoonist, Vancouver Sun)
John J. Stuart - LL.D. (businessman; first Chairman of Brd. of Gov., U. of W.)
TWENTY-FIRST CONVOCATION (October 13, 1973)
David Alexander Colville - LL.D. (Canadian artist)
TWENTY-SECOND CONVOCATION (May 25-26, 1974)
Eedson Louis Millard Burns - LL.D. (Prof. of Strategic Studies, Carleton Univ.)
Donald MacDonald - LL.D. (President, Canadian Labour Congress) **
J. Percy Smith - LL.D. (Vice-President Academic, University of Guelph)
Horace Emerson Read - DCL (Dean Emeritus of Law, Dalhousie University) **
TWENTY-THIRD CONVOCATION (October 5, 1974)
Hilda Neatby - D. Litt. (Canadian historian) **
TWENTY-FOURTH CONVOCATION (May 24-25, 1975)
Earle F. Zeigler - LL.D. (Dean of Physical Education, Univ. of Western Ontario)
Hugh MacLennan - D. Litt. (Canadian author & Prof. of English, McGill Univ.)
Clare R. MacLeod - LL.D. (former Director of Education for Windsor)
Richard Rohmer - LL.D. (Canadian lawyer and author)
TWENTY-FIFTH CONVOCATION (October 4, 1975)
-- no honorary degrees --
TWENTY-SIXTH CONVOCATION (May 29-30, 1976)
Elsie Gregory MacGill - D. Sc. (consulting aeronautical engineer) **
Kenneth Charles Saltmarche - D. Sc. (Director, Windsor Art Gallery)
Henry Gordon Hill - LL.D. (Bishop of Ontario)
Helen R. Belyea - D. Sc. (geologist, Geological Survey of Canada)
TWENTY-SEVENTH CONVOCATION (May 28-29, 1977) (including Oct. 1976 graduates)
Murray Adaskin - D. Music (musician, composer, Prof. Emeritus at Univ. of Sask)
D. Carlton Williams - LL.D. (President & Vice-Chancellor, Univ. of Western Ont.)
David Reid Brown - LL.D. (Executive Director, Windsor Western Hospital Centre)
John Barfoot Macdonald - D.Sc. (President, Addiction Research Foundation)
Mrs. R. W. Todgham - LL.D. (leader in community enterprises)
Col. Frederick A. Tilston, V.C. - LL.D. (Distinguished citizen of Canada)
Most Rev. Gerald Emmett Carter - LL.D. (Bishop of London) **
William Kurelek - LL.D. (Canadian painter) **
TWENTY-EIGHTH CONVOCATION (October 1, 1977)
The Hon. Thomas G. Zuber - DCL (Judge, Ontario Court of Appeal)
Manly F. Miner - LL.D. (Director, Jack Miner Migratory Bird Foundation) **
Jasper W. Miner - LL.D. (Director, Jack Miner Migratory Bird Foundation)
TWENTY-NINTH CONVOCATION (May 27-28, 1978)
The Hon. Jean Beetz - DCL (Justice, Supreme Court of Canada)
Mario Bernardi - D. Music (Conductor, National Arts Centre Orchestra)
The Hon. Lucien Lamoureux - DCL (Can. Ambassador to Belgium, Chancellor of Univ.)
Norbert Joseph Ruth, CSB - LLD (President, Assumption University)
William Osborn Twaits - LLD (former Chairman of Board, Imperial Oil Co.)
Maurice Lewis VanVliet - LLD (Dean Emeritus of Phys.Educ. Univ. of Alberta; President XI Commonwealth Games [Canada 1978] Foundation)
THIRTIETH CONVOCATION (September 30, 1978)
[Installation of Chancellor & President - No Honorary Degrees]
THIRTY-FIRST CONVOCATION (June 2 & 3, 1979)
The Hon. Reuben C. Baetz - LL.D. (Minister of Culture & Recreation for Ont.) *
Rev. J. Stanley Murphy - LL.D. (founder & director, Christian Culture Series) **
Conrad M. Black - D. Litt. (President, Argus Corporation) *
Jean Elizabeth Linton - LL.D. (District Director, VON, Windsor Branch)
David Takayoshi Suzuki - D. Sc. (scientist & lecturer) *
Robert James Tebbs - LL.D. (Senior Vice-President & Director, Hiram Walker; Past Chair, Board of Governors)
THIRTY-SECOND CONVOCATION (September 29, 1979)
Abram Bergson - LL.D. (George F. Baker Prof. of Economics, Harvard Univ.)
The Hon. Donald R. Morand - LL.D. (Ombudsman, Ontario) *
THIRTY-THIRD CONVOCATION (May 31, 1980)
Jacob David Geller - LL.D. (Windsor businessman & lawyer)
Antonine Maillet - D. Litt. (Canadian writer & educator) *
The Hon. George Alexander Gale - LL.D. (former Chief Justice of Ontario)
Timothy R. Pryor - D. Sc. (President & Director of marketing, Diffracto Ltd.) *
THIRTY-FOURTH CONVOCATION (October 4, 1980)
John Wendell Holmes - D. Litt. (Research Dir., Can. Inst. of International Affairs) * **
Gordon Murray MacNabb - D. Sc. (President, Natural Sciences & Eng. Research Council)
THIRTY-FIFTH CONVOCATION (June 6, 1981)
Therese Casgrain - LL.D. (Member of Senate of Canada) **
Peter John Sereda - D.Sc. (Division of Building Research, NRC of Canada) *
Pierre Berton - D. Litt. (Canadian author, journalist & historian) *
Judge Bruce J.S. Macdonald - LL.D. (lawyer, soldier, author) **
THIRTY-SIXTH CONVOCATION (October 3, 1981)
Jack Longman - LL.D. (Chairman, Ont. Advisory Council on the Physically Handicapped)
Virgil Thomson - D. Music (composer & critic)
Francesco Paolo Fulci - LL.D. (Italian Ambassador to Canada) *
THIRTY-SEVENTH CONVOCATION (June 5, 1982)
Roy Bonisteel - LL.D. (creator & host of "Man Alive") *
Edith Margaret Bowlby - D. Music (musician & philanthropist)
William Ormond Mitchell - D. Litt. (Canadian dramatist & novelist) *
William Arthur Wilkinson - LL.D. (Founder of Green Shield Prepaid Services Inc.)
THIRTY-EIGHTH CONVOCATION (October 2, 1982)
Frederick Kent Jasperson - LL.D. (Military leader & judge) **
Roger Lemelin - LL.D. (Canadian author, president & publisher "La Presse") *
SPECIAL CONVOCATION (November 20, 1982)
Allan Ezra Gotlieb - LL.D. (Canadian Ambassador to the United States) *
THIRTY-NINTH CONVOCATION (June 2, 1983)
John W. Adams - LL.D. (President, Emco Limited) *
Leon Z. McPherson - LL.D. (former chairman, Board of Governors)
Albert H. Weeks - LL.D. (former Mayor, City of Windsor) * **
FORTIETH CONVOCATION (October 1, 1983)
Edward Baillargeon - LL.D. (past president, Windsor & District Labour Council)
The Hon. Herbert Eser Gray - LL.D. (M.P. Windsor-West) *
The Hon. Mark MacGuigan - LL.D. (MP Windsor-Walkerville)
The Hon. Eugene Whelan - LL.D. (MP Essex-Windsor)
FORTY-FIRST CONVOCATION (June 2, 1984)
Len Cariou - D. Litt. (Canadian actor)
Thomas Shoyama - LL.D. (Prof. of Public Admin., Univ. of Victoria)
William Hugh Kenner - D. Litt. (Literary Critic)
James Gordon Parr - LL.D. (Chairman & CEO, TV Ontario)
FORTY-SECOND CONVOCATION (September 29, 1984)
Larkin Kerwin - D.Sc. (President, National Research Council)
FORTY-THIRD CONVOCATION (June 2 & 9, 1985)
John Michael Sherlock - LL.D. (R.C. Bishop of London)
J. Wilfrid Dwyer - LL.D. (educator, Assumption Alumnus)
John H. Maus - D.Sc. (retired Director, Windsor Regional Cancer Centre)
The Hon. Thomas Wells - D. Litt. (Agent General for Ontario)
Anthony Adamson - LL.D. (Architect, Planning Consultant)
Carl Beigie - LL.D. (Political Economist)
Burton Jacobs - LL.D. (Band Councillor, Walpole Island Indian Reserve)
FORTY-FOURTH CONVOCATION (October 13, 1985)
Madeleine Parent - LL.D. (retired Quebec Union leader)
Sir William Stephenson - D. Sc. ("A Man Called Intrepid")
Hon. Bertha Wilson - DCL (Justice, Supreme Court of Canada) *
Selma Huxley Barkham - D. Litt. (Canadian historical geographer)
John Howie McGivney - LL.D. (past chairman, Board of Governors)
FORTY-FIFTH CONVOCATION (June 1 & 8, 1986)
J. Mavor Moore - D. Litt. (Can. playwright, actor, past Chair of Can. Council) *
Marie-Josee Drouin - LL.D. (Exec. Director of Hudson Inst.) *
Canon Robert S. Rayson - LL.D. (first principal, Canterbury College) *
Valerie Kasurak - LL.D. (former member of Board, retired Citizenship Court Judge) *
Claudette MacKay-Lassonde - D. Eng. (President-elect, Assoc. of Prof. Eng. of Ont.) *
Pierre Camu - LL.D. (VP, Lavalin Inc., Canadian geographer) *
Mitzi Dobrin - D. Sc. Bus. Admin. (Exec. V.P. Steinberg's)
Diane Dupuy - D. Litt. (founder of Famous People Players) *
SPECIAL (October 5, 1986) conferred in People's Republic of China
Ao-qing Tang (Auchin Tang) - LL.D. (past President Jilin Univ.)
FORTY-SIXTH CONVOCATION (October 5, 1986)
Elizabeth Kishkon - LL.D. (former mayor of Windsor)*
Florence Irene Henderson - LL.D. (past Executive Director, Federation of Women Teachers Association of Ontario)
Violet Balestreri Archer - D. Music (Canadian composer)
Frank Anthony DeMarco - D. Education (Sr. Univ. administrator & professor) *
FORTY-SEVENTH CONVOCATION (June 14 & 15, 1987)
Maurice F. Strong - LL.D. (former Undersecretary General, UN) *
Sylvia O. Fedoruk - D. Sc. (Chancellor, Univ. of Saskatchewan) *
Walter S. Tarnopolsky - DCL (Justice of Ontario Court of Appeal) *
Frances Hyland - LL.D. in absentia (Canadian actress & director)
Sylvia Ostry - LL.D. (Canadian economist) *
Peter Gzowski - LL.D. (Canadian radio & television host) *
FORTY-EIGHTH CONVOCATION (October 4, 1987)
Alton C. Parker - LL.D. (retired police officer & community worker) * **
Anna Russell - D. Music (international concert comedienne) *
FORTY-NINTH CONVOCATION (June 5, 8 & 12, 1988)
Stephen Lewis - LL.D. (Can. Ambassador to the United Nations) *
Maureen Forrester - LL.D. (Chair, Canadian Council; international concert artist) *
John Francis Leddy - D. Litt. (former President, Univ. of Windsor) *
Rosalie Silberman Abella - LL.D. (chair, Ont. Labour Relations Board) *
Brian Dickson - DCL (Chief Justice of Canada) *
Amintore Fanfani - LL.D. (President, Italian Senate) *
Peter Lougheed - LL.D. (former Premier of Alberta) *
Pauline McGibbon - LL.D. (former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario)
Ramsay Cook - D. Litt. (Professor of History, York Univ.) *
Rosalie Bertell - D. Sc. (Dir. of Research, International Institute of Concern for Public Health) *
FIFTIETH CONVOCATION (October 23, 1988)
Frederick Kenneth Hare - D. Sc. (Chancellor of Trent University) *
Paul A. Charbonneau - LL.D. (Director, Brentwood Recovery Home) *
FIFTY-FIRST CONVOCATION (June 4 & 18, 1989)
Malcolm Ross - D. Litt. (Canadian critic & essayist) *
Maurice Joseph Closs - LL.D. (Pres. & Chief Exec. Officer, Chrysler's) *
Ralph Mellanby - LL.D. (Exec. Producer, CTV 1988 Winter Olympics) *
Wm. Henry Somerville - LL.D. (Past Pres. & Chief Officer, National Victoria & Grey Trustco) *
Jon Vickers - D. Music (Canadian operatic & concert singer) *
The Hon. Florence Bird - D. Litt. (former Can. Senator, author & broadcaster) *
FIFTY-SECOND CONVOCATION (September 24, 1989)
Robert White - LL.D. (President, CAW) *
Boris Stoicheff - D. Sc. (Exec. Director, Ont. Laser & Lightwave Research Centre)
James K. McConica - D. Litt. (Pres. University of St. Michael's College) *
Phyllis Lambert - LL.D. (Director, Canadian Centre for Architecture)
FIFTY-THIRD CONVOCATION (June 1990)
Charles J. Clark - LL.D. (Windsor lawyer) **
Huguette Labelle - D. Sc. *
Sister Mary Jo Leddy - LL.D. *
Marc C. Lemieux - LL.D. *
George S. Mann - LL.D. *
David P. Silcox - D. Litt. *
Ragnihild Whiting - LL.D.
FIFTY-FOURTH CONVOCATION (October 1990)
Peter deCarteret Cory - DCL (Supreme Court Judge) *
Ann Saddlemeyer - D. Litt. (Master, Massey College, Univ. of Toronto) *
FIFTY-FIFTH CONVOCATION (June 8 & 9, 1991)
Rosemary Brown - LL.D. (Manager, MATCH International) *
Martha Henry - LL.D. (Artistic Director, The Grand Theatre) *
Henry Jackman - LL.D. (Chair, Board of Directors, Empire Life Ins. Co.) *
Roberta Jamieson - LL.D. (Ombudsman, Ontario) *
FIFTY-SIXTH CONVOCATION (October 20, 1991)
Jack McClelland - D. Litt. (McClelland & Assoc. Inc., Literary Consultants) *
FIFTY-SEVENTH CONVOCATION (June 6 & 7, 1992)
Douglas J. Cardinal, LL.D. (Douglas J. Cardinal Architect Ltd.) *
Francess G. Halpenny, (Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto) *
Allan Kornberg, LL.D. (Chair, Political Science Dept., Duke University) *
Margaret A. Somerville, LL.D. (Director, McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics & Law) *
FIFTY-EIGHTH CONVOCATION (October 17, 1992)
Louis-Marie Raymondis, D.Humanities (Professor Emeritus & Honorary Dean, Faculty
of Letters, Arts & Social Science at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis)
John H. L. Watson*, D.Humanities (Founder & Director of the Windsor Light Opera,
retired [1981] Chairman of the Department of Physics & Bio-physics at Ford Institute)
FIFTY-NINTH CONVOCATION (June 12 & 13, 1993)
Janet Halliwell, D.Science, Chair of the Science Council of Canada since 1990.*
Eleanor Milne, D.Humanities, Federal government's official sculptor since 1961.*
Howard R. Pawley, D.Laws, U. of W. professor in Political Science, former Premier of Manitoba.*
Michel Tremblay, D.Letters, world renowned playwright.*
SIXTIETH CONVOCATION (October 16, 1993)
Installation of Charles J. Clark as Chancellor. **
No Honorary Degrees Presented.
SIXTY-FIRST CONVOCATION (June 11 & 12, 1994)
Julius A. Isaac, D. Laws, Chief Justice, FederalCourt of Canada.*
Louis L. Odette, D. Laws, Eastern Construction Co. Ltd.
Edmond G. Odette, D. Laws, Eastern Construction Co. Ltd.
M. Owen Lee, D. Letters, Opera Commentator, Classics Professor, Basilian Priest.*
Maria W. Tippett, D. Laws, Historian. *
Gerald Freed, Assumption University of Windsor Honorary Degree, Owner Freed's.
Louis Applebaum, D. Humanities, Composer, Arts Administrator.*
SIXTY-SECOND CONVOCATION (October 15, 1994)
Margot A. C. Franssen, D. Laws, President, Body Shop.*
SIXTY-THIRD CONVOCATION (June 10 & 11, 1995)
James J. Blanchard, D. Laws, U.S. Ambassador to Canada.*
J. Frank Clifford, D. Laws, Director, Teacher Education Council of Ontario.*
G. Yves Landry, D. Laws, President & CEO Chrysler Canada, Ltd.* **
Abbyann Day Lynch, D. Laws, Director, Ethics in Health Care Associates.*
Anne Winterbottom, D. Laws, President, Winclare Management Services Inc.
Clare E. Winterbottom, D. Laws, Chair, President & CEO, Anchor Lamina Inc.
SIXTY-FOURTH CONVOCATION (October 14, 1995)
Richard Monette, D.Humanities, Artistic Director, Stratford Shakespearean Festival Foundation.*
SIXTY-FIFTH CONVOCATION (June 8 & 9, 1996)
Kamel Ajlouni, D. Laws, President Jordan University of Science & Technology.
Stephen Bellringer, D. Laws, President BC Gas Utility.*
Olive Patricia Dickason, D. Litt., Amerindian Authority.
Gary Parent, D. Laws, Financial Secretary/Treasurer, CAW Local 444.*
Allan M. Rock, D. Civil Law, Min. of Justice & Attorney General of Canada.*
Shirley Thomson, D. Litt., Director, National Gallery of Canada.*
LAW CONVOCATION (June 15, 1996)
Patrick LeSage, D. Civil Law, Supreme Court Judge.
SIXTY-SIXTH CONVOCATION (October 19, 1996)
Domenic A. Alfieri, D. Laws, President, Ontario Casino Corporation.*
Michael D. Hurst, D. Laws, Mayor, City of Windsor. *
SIXTY-SEVENTH CONVOCATION (June 7 & 8, 1997)
Betty Goodwin, D. Humanities, Artist. *
Dr. R. W. Ianni, President Emeritus awarded **
John E. McGee, D. Laws, President, St. Clair College, Windsor. *
Joy Parr, D. Letters, Canadian Historian. *
Richard W. Pound, D. Laws, Vice-President, International Olympic Committee. *
Simeon J. Stodgell, D. Laws, Chairman Emeritus, Midland Walwyn Capital Inc. **
LAW CONVOCATION (June 14, 1997)
Ken Dryden, D. Laws, Lawyer. *
SIXTY-EIGHTH CONVOCATION (October 18, 1997)
Installation of Frederic L. R. Jackman as Chancellor. *
Silken Laumann, D. Laws, Olympian in Rowing. *
SIXTY-NINTH CONVOCATION (June 6 & 7, 1998)
Installation of Ross Paul as President. *
Susan Haig, D. Humanities, Director, Windsor Symphony *
Nataley Nagy, D. Humanities, Director, Windsor Art Gallery *
Jan Rubes, D. Laws, Actor & Singer. *
Michael Smith, D. Laws, Prof. of Biotechnology, Univ. of B.C. *
LAW CONVOCATION (June 13, 1998)
Gérard LaForest, D. Civil Law, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. *
SEVENTIETH CONVOCATION (October 17, 1998)
Bruce Thomas Joy, D. Laws, President, Windsor Raceway *
SEVENTY-FIRST CONVOCATION (June 5 & 6, 1999)
Charles Fantazzi, D. Humanities, Distinguished Whichard Chair for the Humanities*
Oliver Jones, D. Music, Canadian Jazz Musician *
Marie Elizabeth Sanderson, D. Laws, International Leader in Research on Climate & Water Quality*
Anthony Peter Toldo, D. Laws, Industrial Entrepreneur*
LAW CONVOCATION (June 12, 1999)
Donna Miller, D. Laws, Executive Director, Hiatus House *
SEVENTY-SECOND CONVOCATION (October 16,1999)
Cynthia Trudell, D. Laws, V.P. of GM and Chairman and President of Saturn Corp.*
SEVENTY-THIRD CONVOCATION (June 10 & 11, 2000)
James Beaudoin, D. Laws, Principal Research Officer, Institute for Research in
Construction*
Dave Broadfoot, D. Humanities, Comedian*
Suzanne Lesa, D. Laws, Owner Lesa Gallery of Fine Arts*
Lois Katherine Smedick, D. Humanities, Professor of English, University of Windsor*
LAW CONVOCATION (June 9, 2000)
Claire L’Heureau-Dubè, D. Civil Law, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada*
SEVENTY-FOURTH CONVOCATION (Fall 14, 2000)
Alistair MacLeod, D Laws, Univesity Professor of English; creative writer*
SEVENTY-FIFTH CONVOCATION (Spring 9 & 10, 2001)
Arbour, Madam Justice Louise, D Laws, Supreme Court Judge*
Ewasyshyn, Frank, D Laws, V.P. Engineering Daimler Chrysler*
Hatch, H. Clifford, D Humanities, Hiram Walkers Executive
Peddie, Richard A., D Laws, Pres. CEO Leafs, Raptors, Air Canada Centre*
Scherer, Stephen, D Science, Scientist, Researcher, Genome mapping*
Tremonti, Anna Maria, D Laws, Journalist, Foreign Correspondent, CBC*
SEVENTY-SIXTH CONVOCATION (Fall 2002)
Whiteside, Prof. John Walker, D Laws, Professor of Law, Univ. of Windsor, Lawyer
SEVENTY-SEVENTH CONVOCATION (Spring 2002)
Greenspan, Edward L., D Laws, Lawyer*
Feore, Colm Joseph, D Hum., Actor, International, Stratford
Begin, The Honourable Monique , D Laws, House of Commons, Minister
Steen, Andrea Conlon, D Laws, Olympics, Physician
White, J. Bruce, D Laws, Dept Head Math Massey Highschool
SEVENTY-EIGHTH CONVOCATION (Fall 2002)
Schindler, David W., D Laws, Prof. of Ecology
SEVENTY-NINTH CONVOCATION (Spring 2003)
Basil ‘Buzz’ Hargrove, D Laws, President, Canadian Auto Workers
Tomson Highway, D Humanites, Aboriginal Leader
Nancy Fern Oliveri, D Science, Haematologist*
Harvey T. Strosberg QC, D Civil Laws, Lawyer*
Moses Znaimer, D Laws, Owner City TV etc*
Vahid Tarokh, D Science, Wireless Com. Researcher, Scientist
EIGHTIETH CONVOCATION (Fall 2003)
Mina Grossman Ianni, D Laws, Radio Canada
Michael Nepinak, D Laws, Telus, Aboriginal Consultant
EIGHTY-FIRST CONVOCATION (Spring 2004)
Arthurs, Harry, D. Civil Laws, Professor at York
Blake, Colleen, D. Humanities, Managing Director Shaw Theatre Festival
Cimolino, Antoni, D. Humanities, Artistic Director Stratford Festival of Canada
Cronk, Eleanore A., D. Civil Laws, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
McLean, Stuart, D. Laws, Author, Professor, Journalist
Thibert, Audrey, D. Laws S’04, Radiologic Technologist
Thibert, Roger, D. Science S’04, Professor Emeritus University of Windsor
Wisdom, Sheila, D. Laws S’04, Executive Director, United Way/Centraide
EIGHTY-SECOND CONVOCATION (Fall 2004)
Mann, John, D.Engin F’04 Director Engineering Daimler Chrysler
Rourke, Byron, LLD F’04 University of Windsor Professor
EIGHTY-THIRD CONVOCATION (Spring 2005)
Fontaine, Phil, D. Laws S=05 National Chief
Alvarez, Gladys Stella, D. Civil Laws S=05 Lawyer, Judge
Douglas, Shirley, D. Laws S=05 Film Television Actor
Moriarty, Richard, D. Humanities, S=05 University of Windsor Professor
Bartleman, James, D. Laws, S=05 Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
Haddad, Mary Jo, D. Laws, S=05 President and CEO, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
EIGHTY-FOURTH CONVOCATION (Fall 2005)
Jackman, Eric, D. Laws, F’05, University of Windsor Chancellor, Invicta Investments Inc.
Marchionne, Sergio, D. Laws, F’05, President of FIAT
EIGHTY-FIFTH CONVOCATION (Spring 2006)
Gallagher, Mary Jean, D. Laws, S’06 Director of Education, Greater Essex County District School Board
Jacobs, Dean, D. Laws, S’ 06, Chief, Walpole Island First Nation, the Council of Three Fires
LaSorda, Thomas, D. Laws, S’06, CEO, DaimlerChrysler Corporation
Slavik, Jerry, D. Laws, S’06, Owner and President of Windsor Factory Supply
Wallin, Pamela, D. Laws, S’06, Broadcaster/Journalist, Canada’s Consul General to New York City.
***Installation of The Honourable Edward C. Lumley as Chancellor – Spring June 9, 2006***
EIGHTY-SIXTH CONVOCATION (Fall 2006)
Lazaridis, Mike, D. Laws, F’06, Founder and Co-Ceo Research in Motion
Orbinski, James, D. Laws, F’06, Medical Doctor, Founder Can. Doctors Without Borders
Solcz, Mike, D. Laws, F’06, Chairman Valiant Group of Companies
EIGHTY-SEVENTH CONVOCATION (Spring 2007)
Alfos, Paul, D. Humanities, S’07, Pres & CEO, Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation
Baxter&, Iain, D. Humanities, S’07, Conceptual Artist, University Professor
Cohen, Job, D. Laws, S’07, Major of Amsterdam
Martin, Paul, D.Laws, S’07, Former Prime Minister
Maxwell, Jackie, D. Humanities, S’07, Artistic Dir. Shaw Festival
Venkateswarlu, Tadiboyina, D. Humanities, S’07, Social Justice Advocate & Retired U of W. Librarian
EIGHTY-EIGHTH CONVOCCATION (FALL 2007)
Brockenshire, John, D. Laws, F07', Judge
Brockenshire, Norma, D. Civil Law, F07', Leading Fundraiser for Breast Cancer
Piper, Martha, D. Laws, F07', Past President of the University of British Columbia
EIGHTY-NINTH CONVOCATION (Spring 2008)
Glaze, Avis, S08’, D. Laws, Noted Ontario Educator
Lawson, Doug, S08’, D. Laws, Windsor Lawyer, Former Board Chair, Volunteer
MacDonald, Ann-Marie, D. Humanities, Renowned Canadian Author and Playwright
Onley, David, S’08, D. Laws, Ont. Lieutenant Governor, Champion of Disabled
Paul Thistle, S’08, D. Laws, Canadian Physician, AIDS Worker in Nigeria
Watt-Cloutier, Sheila, S’08, D. Laws, Internationally Prominent Inuit Environmentalist
NINETYITH CONVOCATION (Fall 2008)
McQuoid-Mason, David F’08, D. Civil Laws - Prominent South African Legal Scholar, Anti-Apartheid Activist
Smillie, Bob F’08, D.Engin - Ford/Nemak Executive, Great U of W Supporter
NINETY FIRST CONVOCATION (Spring 2009)
Curtis, Christopher Paul, D. Laws, S'09 Celebrated Children's Author
Simpson, Jeffrey Carl, D. Laws, S'09, Award Winning Journalist, Current Affairs Expert
Crawford, Purdy, D. Laws, S'09, Lawyer, Philanthropist, Service to the people of Ont. and Can.
Davidson, Janet M., D. Laws, S'09, President & CEO of Trillium Health Care, Humanitarian
Twining, William Lawrence, D. Laws, S'09, Lawyer, Leading Figure in Legal Education & Scholarship