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honorary degrees
May 15, 1966	Christine Smith Gee	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 19, 1968	Margaret M. Bryant	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 10, 1970	Will Lou Gray	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 10, 1970	Cauline Martha Pardue	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 14, 1972	Martha Marian Stringfellow	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 6, 1973	Marquerite Talbert	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 5, 1979	William H. Grier, Sr.	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 3, 1980	Marion Allen Wright	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 3, 1980	Louis Booker Wright	Doctor of Letters
Apr. 6, 1981	Dame Joan Sutherland	Doctor of Music
May 8, 1982	James Strom Thurmond	Doctor of Laws
May 8, 1982	Benjamin Elijah Mays	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 7, 1983	Walther Douglas Smith	Doctor of Humane Letters
Dec. 17, 1983	Diane Sawyer	Doctor of Humane Letters
Aug. 29, 1984	Lois Rhame West	Doctor of Humane Letters
Nov. 15, 1984	Rosalynn Smith Carter	Doctor of Humane Letters
Nov. 15, 1984	Pierre Samuel DuPont, IV.	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 5, 1984	Nell Harmon Taylor	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 5, 1984	Robert Evander McNair	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 5, 1984	Estelle R. Ramey	Doctor of Humane Letters
Dec. 8, 1984	Max Heller	Doctor of Humane Letters
Dec. 8, 1984	Larry Pressler	Doctor of Laws
Apr. 27, 1985	Terry A. Dozier	Doctor of Humane Letters
Apr. 27, 1985	Allen E. Paulson	Doctor of Humane Letters
Apr. 27, 1985	General Peter M. Dawkins	Doctor of Humane Letters
Dec. 15, 1985	James Alfred Joseph	Doctor of Humane Letters
Dec. 15, 1985	John William Jakes	Doctor of Humane Letters
Dec. 15, 1985	Stanley Roger Smith	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 4, 1986	Dr. Albert B. Sabin	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 4, 1986	Col. Charles F. Bolden, Jr.	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 4, 1986	Hugh M. Chapman	Doctor of Humane Letters
Nov. 12, 1986	Richard W. Riley	Doctor of Humane Letters
Dec. 21, 1986	Ernest F. Hollings	Doctor of Humane Letters
Dec. 21, 1986	Terry Sanford	Doctor of Humane Letters
Dec. 19, 1987	Donald M. Stewart	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 10, 1987	James Enos Clyburn	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 7, 1988	Ruby Forsythe	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 7, 1988	Terrel H. Bell	Doctor of Humane Letters
Dec. 17, 1988	Robert Joseph Sheheen	Doctor of Humane Letters
Dec. 17, 1988	Harvey Bernard Gantt	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 6, 1989	Marian Wright Edelman	Doctor of Humane Letters
October 22, 1989	Yehudi Menuhin	Doctor of Humane Letters
Dec. 16, 1989	George Shinn	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 5, 1990	John McKee Spratt, Jr.	Doctor of Humane Letters
Dec 15, 1990	Gov. Carroll Campbell, Jr.	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 4, 1991	Walter Y. Elisha	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 9, 1992	Harry Lightsey	Doctor of Humane Letters
Dec. 18, 1993	Rudy Mancke	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 7, 1994	James Appleberry	Doctor of Humane Letters
Dec. 17, 1994	Mark Erwin	Doctor of Humane Letters
Dec. 16, 1995	James Hoagland	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 4, 1996	Rosalind Richardson	Honorary Baccalaureate
Dec. 14, 1996	Earle Morris	Doctor of Humane Letters
Dec. 14, 1996	Loonis McGlohon	Doctor of Humane Letters
Dec. 20, 1997	Elizabeth D. Rhea	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 10, 1998	Robert B. Pamplin Sr.	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 10, 1998	Katherine Reese Pamplin	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 10, 1998	Robert V. Royall, Jr.	Doctor of Humane Letters
June 25, 1998	Edmond Lewandowski	Doctor of Humane letters
Dec. 19, 1998	Philip Lader	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 8, 1999	Cecily Truett	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 8, 1999	Mary Sue Britton McElveen	Doctor of Humane Letters
Dec. 18, 1999	Governor James Hodges	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 6, 2000	Terry Peterson	Doctor of Humane Letters
Dec. 16, 2000	Dai Weidong	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 4, 2002	Crandall C. Bowles	Doctor of Humane Letters
Dec. 21, 2002	Thomas E. Barton, Jr.	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 2003	Anne Springs Close	Doctor of Humane Letters
Dec 20, 2003	Inez Tenenbaum	Doctor of Humane Letters
Dec 20, 2003	Albert Finney, Jr.	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 8, 2004	Elaine Jones	Doctor of Humane Letters
Dec 18, 2004	Lindsay Graham	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 7, 2005	Joe Riley	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 6, 2006	Ruth Shaw	Doctor of Humane Letters
Dec 16, 2006	Reggie Lloyd	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 5, 2007	George Kuh	Doctor of Humane Letters
Dec. 20, 2008	Bobby Harrell	Doctor of Humane Letters
Dec. 19, 2010	Irwin Belk	Doctor of Humane Letters;
Dec. 17, 2011	*Gary Williams*	Doctor of Humane Letters
Oct. 18, 2012	*Gale N. DiGiorgio*	Doctor of Humane Letters
Dec. 15, 2012	*Doug Echols*	Doctor of Humane Letters
Dec. 15, 2012	Sylvia Echols	Doctor of Humane Letters
Dec. 15, 2012	*Hugh Leatherman*	Doctor of Humane Letters
May 10, 2014	*Cece Stewart*	Doctor of Humane Letters