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The Honor Roll of Laureates

Laureates Inducted in 2011
47th Convocation - Urbana
Krannert Center for Performing Arts
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
 

Richard Gray and Mary Lackritz Gray - The Arts
Shahid R. Khan - Business & Industry
Shirley R. Madigan - The Arts
Dawn Clark Netsch - Government & Law
Timothy J. Nugent - Education & Social Service

 

Laureates Inducted in 2010
46th Convocation - Chicago
Rubloff Auditorium
The Art Institute of Chicago
 

William J. Bauer - Government & Law
Doris K. Christopher - Business
Mary A. Dempsey - Education
Mannie Jackson - Sports
The Joffrey Ballet - The Arts
Lester B. Knight, III - Business

 

Laureates Inducted in 2009
45th Convocation – Springfield
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum
 

Jean H. Baker - Bicentennial Laureate
Gabor Boritt - Bicentennial Laureate
Michael Burlingame - Bicentennial Laureate
Richard Carwardine - Bicentennial Laureate
Julie Cellini - Bicentennial Laureate
Cullom Davis - Bicentennial Laureate
Eric Foner - Bicentennial Laureate
Allen C. Guelzo - Bicentennial Laureate
Harold Holzer - Bicentennial Laureate
Charles M. Hubbard - Bicentennial Laureate
Ron Keller - Bicentennial Laureate
Philip B. Kunhardt III and
Peter W. Kunhardt - Bicentennial Laureates
John McClarey - Bicentennial Laureate
Edna Greene Medford - Bicentennial Laureate
LeRoy Neiman - Bicentennial Laureate
Don Pollack - Bicentennial Laureate
Robert Provost Jr. - Bicentennial Laureate
Bob Rogers - Bicentennial Laureate
Thomas F. Schwartz - Bicentennial Laureate
Jack Smith - Bicentennial Laureate
Lowell and Rhoda Sneller - Bicentennial Laureate
Louise Taper - Bicentennial Laureate
Wayne C. Temple - Bicentennial Laureate
Lily Tolpo - Bicentennial Laureate
Daniel R. Weinberg - Bicentennial Laureate
Frank J. Williams - Bicentennial Laureate
Douglas L. Wilson - Bicentennial Laureate
Rodney O. Davis - Bicentennial Laureate

 

Laureates Inducted in 2008
44th Convocation - Carbondale
Shyrock Auditorium
Southern Illinois University
 

David Herbert Donald * - Communication and Education
Irl F. Engelhardt - Business and Industry
Joel M. Flaum - Government and Law
William R. Norwood - Education and Social Service
Kenneth A. Shaw - Education
Thomas M. Siebel - Business and Social Service

 

Laureates Inducted in 2007
43rd Convocation - Chicago
James Simpson Theatre
The Field Museum
 

Judith S. Block - Social Service
Norman R. Bobins - Business
Rev. Dr. John M. Buchanan - Religion
Mary Ann G. McMorrow - Government and Law
Linda Johnson Rice - Business, Industry and Communications

 

Laureates Inducted in 2006
42nd Convocation - Springfield
Sangamon Auditorium
University of Illinois Springfield
 

Rev. Thomas J. Behrens - Social Service
Richard H. Moy - Education, Medicine and Science
William A. Osborn - Business and Social Service
Garry Wills - Communication and Education
The Zhou Brothers - The Arts

 

Laureates Inducted in 2005
41st Convocation - Edwardsville
Dunham Theatre
Southern Illinois University
 

Edward A. Brennan * - Business and Social Service
David S. Broder * - Communications
Nick Holonyak, Jr. - Science
George E. Inglett - Agriculture and Science
Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee - Sports
Stephanie Pace Marshall - Education

 

Laureates Inducted in 2004
40th Convocation - Chicago
Rubloff Auditorium
Chicago Historical Society
 

Michael Beschloss - Communications and Education
Harry L. Crisp, II - Business
George A. Ranney, Jr. - Business and Social Services
Louis "Studs" Terkel * - Communications
Ernest R. Wish - Social Services

 

Laureates Inducted in 2003
39th Convocation - Normal
Braden Auditorium
Illinois State University
 

Sister Rosemary Connelley, RSM - Religion and Social Service
Ronald J. Gidwitz - Business and Education
John W. Maitland, Jr. - Government
Sherril Milnes - Performing Arts
Edward B. Rust - Business
Rev. Dr. Addie L. Wyatt - Religion and Labor

 

Laureates Inducted in 2002
38th Convocation - Springfield
Sangamon Auditorium
University of Illinois Springfield
 

Frank W. Considine - Business and Social Services
Lou Conte - The Performing Arts
Jack M. Greenberg - Business
Rabbi Herman E. Schaalman - Religion
Bernard Shaw - Communications
James B. Stewart - Communications

 

Laureates Inducted in 2001
37th Convocation – Chicago
Rubloff Auditorium
The Art Institute of Chicago
 

M. Cherif Bassiouni - Government and Law
Henry B. Betts - Medicine
Roger Ebert - Performing Arts
Marian F. (Cindy) Pritzker - Social Services
Orion Samuelson - Communications and Agriculture
Rev. John P. Smyth - Social Services

 

Laureates Inducted in 2000
36th Convocation - Springfield
Gwendolyn Brooks Illinois State Library
 

Lynn Martin - Government
Monsignor Ignatius McDermott * - Religion
Andrew J. McKenna - Social Services
Robert Eugene Richards - Sports
Harold B. Steele - Agriculture
Scott F. Turow - Communications

 

Laureates Inducted in 1999
35th Convocation – Urbana-Champaign
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
University of Illinois
 

Lester Crown - Business and Social Services
Jim Edgar - Government
Robert D. Novak * - Communications
Stansfield Turner - Government

 

Laureates Inducted in 1998
34th Convocation – Chicago
James R. Thompson Center
 

Peter B. Bensinger - Government
Preston Jackson - The Arts
Martin E. Marty - Religion
Patrick G. Ryan - Business
John M. D. Shalikashvili * - Government
Paul Simon * - Government

 

Laureates Inducted in 1997
33rd Convocation - Springfield
House of Representatives
Illinois State Capitol
 

Gwendolyn Brooks * - Communications
Leonard H. Lavin - Business and Industry
Ramsey E. Lewis, Jr. - The Performing Arts
Robert H. Michel - Government
Jerry M. Reinsdorf - Business
Seymour Simon * - Law
Joesph Cardinal Bernardin * - Religion

 

Laureates Inducted in 1996
32nd Convocation - Evanston
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Northwestern University
 

Willard L. Boyd - Business and Education
Stanley O. Ikenberry - Education
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick * - Government
Sid Luckman * - Sports
Alan Schriesheim - Science

 

Laureates Inducted in 1995
31st Convocation - Carbondale
Shyrock Auditorium
Southern Illinois University
 

James S. Brady - Government
Joseph B. Kirsner - Medicine
William H. Kurtis - Communications
Robert H. Malott - Business
Arnold W. Weber - Education

 

Laureates Inducted in 1994
30th Convocation - Springfield
House of Representatives
Illinois State Capitol
 

Alan J. Dixon - Government
Robert W. Galvin * - Business and Industry
Steven R. Nagel - Government
The Reverend John T. Richardson - Education
Kay Smith - The Arts
Anthony J. Watson - Government

 

Laureates Inducted in 1993
29th Convocation – Chicago
Merle Reskin Theatre
DePaul University
 

Etta Moten Barnett * - The Performing Arts
John H. Byran - Business and Social Services
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar * - Science
Lester E. Fisher - Science
Richard Hunt - The Arts
James J. O'Connor - Business and Social Services

 

Laureates Inducted in 1992
28th Convocation – Decatur
Kirkland Fine Arts Center
Millikin University
 

Marajen Stevick Chinigo * - Business and Social Services
William B. Graham * - Business
John O. Honnold, Jr. * - Government and Law
Paul C. Laterbur * - Science
Osvaldo I. Lopez - Medicine
W. Clement Stone * - Business and Social Services

 

Laureates Inducted in 1991
27th Convocation - Springfield
House of Representatives
Illinois State Capitol
 

Arnold O. Beckman * - Business and Science
Harry A. Blackmun * - Government and Law
Gaylord * and Dorothy Donnelley * - Business and Social Services
Norman A. Ross * - Business and Communications
James R. Thompson - Government
Elmer H. Wavering * - Business

 

Laureates Inducted in 1990
26th Convocation – Chicago
Rockefeller Chapel
University of Chicago
 

Mortimer J. Adler * - Education and Communications
Marshall L. Burman - Law
James S. Kemper, Jr. * - Business and Social Services
Leon M. Lederman - Science
James B. Stockdale * - Government
William C. Warfield * - The Performing Arts

 

Laureates Inducted in 1989
25th Convocation – Normal
Braden Auditorium
Illinois State University
 

John C. Corbally * - Education
C. Geraldine Freund * - The Performing Arts and Social Services
Eugene D. Funk, Jr. * - Agriculture
Hannah H. Gray - Education
Elizabeth N. Paepcke * - Social Services

 

Laureates Inducted in 1988
24th Convocation - Springfield
House of Representatives
Illinois State Capitol
 

Dwayne O. Andreas - Agriculture
John Chancellor * - Communications
Abraham Lincoln Marovitz * - Law
Raymond Joseph Meyer * - Sports
Patrick L. O'Malley * - Business and Social Services

 

Laureates Inducted in 1987
23rd Convocation – Chicago
James R. Thompson Center
 

Michael Butler - The Performing Arts and Social Services
Paul Harvey * - Communications
Walter Massey - Science
Walter Payton * - Sports

 

Laureates Inducted in 1986
22nd Convocation – Peoria
Dingeldine Auditorium
Bradley University
 

James Beré * - Business and Social Services
William Harrison Fetridge * - Business
Lawrence Rossi * - Medicine
Maria Tallchief - The Performing Arts

 

Laureates Inducted in 1985
21st Convocation – Springfield
House of Representatives
Illinois State Capitol
 

Ardis Krainik * - Business and The Performing Arts
Hiram Henry Lesar * - Law
Ruth Page * - The Performing Arts
Daniel James Terra * - The Arts

 

Laureates Inducted in 1984
20th Convocation - Evanston
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Northwestern University
 

Leigh B. Block * - Business and Social Services
Virginia L. Marmaduke * - Communications
Arthur C. Neilsen, Jr. * - Business and Communications
John L. Strohm * - Agriculture and Communications

 

Laureates Inducted in 1983
19th Convocation – Edwardsville
Communications Building Theater
Southern Illinois University
 

Thomas R. Mulroy * - Law
Ralph Geoffrey Newman * - Education
Mike Royko * - Communications
Bobby Short * - The Performing Arts

 

Laureates Inducted in 1982
18th Convocation – Urbana-Champaign
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
University of Illinois
 

Donald L. Bitzer - Science
John R. Block - Government
Marva N. Collins - Education
Delyte W. Morris * - Education

 

Laureates Inducted in 1981
17th Convocation - Springfield
House of Representatives
Illinois State Capitol
 

Thomas G. Ayers * - Business and Social Services
James W. Cronin - Science
Ronald W. Reagan * - Government
Adlai E. Stevenson III - Government
John T. Trutter * - Social Services

 

Laureates Inducted in 1980
16th Convocation – Chicago
The Chicago Cultural Center
 

Paul Findley - Government
John Hope Franklin * - Education
Arthur Rubloff * - Business and Social Services

 

Laureates Inducted in 1979
15th Convocation – Carbondale
Shyrock Auditorium
Southern Illinois University
 

John Baynard Anderson - Government
Joan Walsh Anglund - Education and The Arts
William Alexander Hewitt * - Business and Social Services
Robert Stephen Ingersoll * - Government
Leon Orris Jacobson * - Science and Education
Albert Ernest Jenner, Jr. * - Law
Clayton Kirkpatrick * - Communications
Marjorie Lawrence * - The Performing Arts

 

Laureates Inducted in 1978
14th Convocation - Springfield
House of Representatives
Illinois State Capitol
 

Robert Gehlmann Bone * - Education
Irving Lee Dillard * - Government and Education
Ann Landers * - Communications
Brooks McCormick * - Business and Social Services
Samuel Harvey Shapiro * - Government
William Grant Stratton * - Government
Daniel Walker - Government

 

Laureates Inducted in 1977
13th Convocation – Peoria
Scottish Rite Cathedral
 

Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith * - Social Services
Charlton Heston * - The Performing Arts
Celeste Holm - The Performing Arts
Otto Kerner * - Government
Hyman George Rickover * - Government and Science
Archbishop Fulton John Sheen * - Religion

 

Laureates Inducted in 1976
12th Convocation – Springfield
House of Representatives
Illinois State Capitol
 

Rev. Preston Bradley * - Reilgion
Gaylord Augustus Freeman, Jr. * - Business and Social Services
Louis Glodblatt * - Business
Burl Ives * - The Performing Arts
Edward Hirsh Levi * -
Louis Courtenay Sudler * - Business and The Performing Arts

 

Laureates Inducted in 1975
11th Convocation – Lincoln
Johnson Center for the Performing Arts
Lincoln College
 

Samuel Weiler Witwer, Sr. * - Government and Law

 

Laureates Inducted in 1974
10th Convocation – Chicago
Orchestra Hall
 

William Russell Arrington * - Government and Law
Saul Bellow * - Communications
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra - The Performing Arts
Benjamin David (Benny) Goodman * - The Performing Arts
William John Kuhfuss * - Agriculture

 

Laureates Inducted in 1973
9th Convocation – Moline
Administration Center
Deere and Company
 

Richard Buell Ogilvie * - Government
Frank Everson Vandiver * - Communications

 

Laureates Inducted in 1972
8th Convocation - Springfield
House of Representatives
Illinois State Capitol
 

Jack Benny * - The Performing Arts
David Dodds Henry * - Education
Percy Lavon Julian * - Science
Mark Van Doren * - Communications

 

Laureates Inducted in 1971
7th Convocation – Rockford
Maddox Theatre
Rockford College
 

Archibald MacLeish * - Communications

 

Laureates Inducted in 1970
6th Convocation - Springfield
House of Representatives
Illinois State Capitol
 

Paul McClelland Angle * - Education and Communications
Ernest (Ernie) Banks - Sports
William J. Campbell * - Law
William Childs Westmoreland * - Government

 

Laureates Inducted in 1969
5th Convocation – Chicago
Palmer House
 

David Matthew Kennedy * - Business and Government

 

Laureates Inducted in 1968
4th Convocation - Springfield
House of Representatives
Illinois State Capitol
 

 

Ivan LeLorraine Albright * - The Arts
John B. (Jack) Brickhouse * - Communications
Katherine Dunham * - The Performing Arts
Arthur Joseph Goldberg * - Government and Law
Most Reverend William Edward McManus * - Religion
Edward Larned Ryerson * - Communications and Social Services
Rabbi Jacob Joseph Weinstein * - Religion
Roy Wilkins * - Business

 

Laureates Inducted in 1967
3rd Convocation – Springfield
Senate Chambers
Illinois State Capitol
 

William Carl Ackermann * - Science
Roger Adams * - Science
Paul Howard Douglas * - Government
Hugh Downs - Communications
Charles (Chick) Evans, Jr. * - Sports
The Fine Arts Quartet - Leonard Sorkin *, Abram Loft, George Sopkin *, Gerald Stanick - The Performing Arts
Richard Buckminster Fuller * - The Arts
John Simpson Hastings * - Law
Raymond Marcellus Hillard * - Social Services
Charles Brenton Huggins * - Science and Medicine
Mahalia Jackson * - The Performing Arts
Wayne Andrew Johnston * - Business
Irving (Kup) Kupcinet * - Communications
George Littlewood Luthy * - Business and Social Services
The Right Reverend James Winchester Montgomery * - Religion
Charles B. Shuman * - Agriculture
Martin Wagner * - Labor
Robert Elkington Wood * - Business

 

Laureates Inducted in 1966
2nd Convocation – Chicago
Chicago Historical Society
 

George Wells Beadle * - Science and Education
Edwin Carlos (Bill) Berry * - Business
Rev. Edgar Hugh Storer Chandler * - Religion
Everett McKinley Dirksen * - Government
Marshall Field IV * - Business
Carol Fox * - The Performing Arts
George Stanley Halas, Sr. * - Business and Sports
Ben Walter Heineman, Sr. * - Business
John Harold Johnson * - Business and Communications
Karl Albert Meyer * - Medicine
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe * - The Arts
Franklin Faller Offner * - Science
James Michael Roche * - Business
Walter Vincent Schaefer * - Government and Law
Robert Martin Trueblood * - Business
Benjamin Coppage Willis * - Education

 

Laureates Inducted in 1965
1st Convocation – Chicago
Chicago Historical Society
 

John Bardeen * - Science
Joseph Leopold Block * - Business and Law
John Stephen Boyle * - Government and Law
Richard Gibbs Browne * - Education
Avery Brundage * - Sports
James Edwards Day * - Business
Rudolph Ganz * - The Performing Arts
William Henry (Bill) Mauldin * - Communications
His Eminence Albert Cardinal Meyer * - Religion
Nathan Mortimer Newmark * - Science
William Alan Patterson * - Business
Ward Louis Quaal * - Communications
Adlai Ewing Stevenson II * - Government

 

 

* deceased