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Honorary Degree Recipients

May 8, 1975 - (Commencement)

   
  Edward Ernest Fritz**
Retired President, Chayse-Virginia Corporation
Active in Development of Dental Education Programs
DOCTOR OF LAWS
   
  Reverend Manfred Henry Frederick Haas**
Minister of United Church of Christ, Evansville
Dedicated Civic Worker
DOCTOR OF HUMANITIES
   
  D. Bailey Merrill**
Senior partner in Evansville law firm of Merrill, Schroeder, and Johnson
Civic Leader
DOCTOR OF CIVIL LAW
   
  Alan Carson Rankin (speaker)**
President, Indiana State University
DOCTOR OF HUMANITIES
   

May 8, 1976 - (Commencement)

   
 

Rolland Merrel Eckels
Director of Public Relations, Mead Johnson and Company Executive Vice President, Southern Indiana Higher Education, Inc.
DOCTOR OF LAWS

   
  Malcolm Winston Fuhrer**
Retired businessman, Fuhrer-Ford Milling Company
Mt. Vernon Community Leader
DOCTOR OF LAWS
   
 

H. Byron Hubbard**
Chairman of the Board, Evansville Sheet Metal Works
Community Leader in Governmental Affairs
DOCTOR OF LAWS

   

May 7, 1977 - (Commencement)

   
 

Arlene Bronstein**
President, Southern Independent Oil and Refining Company and Cultural and Civic Leader
DOCTOR OF LAWS

   
  Richard M. Brumfield**
Retired Indiana Businessman, Potter and Brumfield,
Princeton, Indiana
DOCTOR OF LAWS
   
  Virgil Alfred Clift (speaker)**
Professor Emeritus, New York University
Editor, Encyclopedia of Black America
DOCTOR OF HUMANITIES
   
  Alexander Leich**
Vice President-Treasurer, Charles Leich and Company, retired; Evansville Area Cultural and Civic Leader
DOCTOR OF HUMANITIES
   

May 13, 1978 - (Commencement)

   
 

George Ashworth**
Former Superintendent of the Metropolitan School District of Mt. Vernon, Indiana
DOCTOR OF LAWS

   
  Robert James Fair**
President Pro Tem of the Indiana Senate
President, Indiana State Bar Association
DOCTOR OF CIVIL LAW
   
  Russell G. Lloyd** (speaker)
Mayor of the City of Evansville
DOCTOR OF CIVIL LAW
   
  William Henry Miller
Judge, Vanderburgh Circuit Court
DOCTOR OF CIVIL LAW
   

May 12, 1979 - (Commencement)

   
  William Robert Burleigh (speaker)
Former editor of The Evansville Press
Editor of The
Cincinnati Post
DOCTOR OF LAWS
   
  Edwin Donald Elliott**
Vice President of Personnel, Mead Johnson and Company
President of USI Foundation
DOCTOR OF LAWS
   
  John Bennett Elliott**
Member and Officer of Harmonie Associates
DOCTOR OF LAWS
   
  Josephine Mirabella Elliott**
Retired Educator and Active Leader in the Historical Preservation of New Harmony, Indiana
DOCTOR OF LAWS
   
  William Lee Hitch**
Southern Indiana Businessman
Former Indiana State University Trustee
DOCTOR OF LAWS
   
** - deceased



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