Listed below are recipients from 1960 to 1969.
1969
Jerome Seymour Bruner, Doctor of Humane Letters
Professor of Psychology and Director of Cognitive Studies, Harvard University
Angier Biddle Duke, Doctor of Laws
U.S. Ambassador; Chief of Protocol, U.S. State Department
William Martin Fairbank, Doctor of Science
Professor of Physics, Stanford University
Earl Gladstone Hunt, Jr., Doctor of Divinity
Fromer President, Emory and Henry College; Methodist Bishop
Maynard Mack, Doctor of Literature
Sterling Professor of English and Department Chairman, Yale University
Asa Timothy Spaulding, Doctor of Laws
Former executive, North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company; civic leader
Rudolf Wittkower, Doctor of Fine Arts
Chairman, Department of Art History, Columbia University
1968
(John) Wallace Carroll, Doctor of Laws
Newspaper editor; writer; fomer Director, Office of War Information
Jonathan Worth Daniels, Doctor of Literature
Newspaper editor; author; former press secretary to Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Thomas Gossett, Doctor of Laws
President-elect, American Bar Association; government and industry leader
Elisabeth Luce Moore, Doctor of Humane Letters
Chairman of Trustees of State University of New York; civic leader
William Clark Styron, Jr., Doctor of Letters
Novelist; Pulitzer Prize winner
Helen Brooke Taussig, Doctor of Science
Professor emerita, Johns Hopkins University; contributor to pediatric cardiology
1967
Luther H. Hodges, Doctor of Laws
Former Governor of North Carolina; United States Secretary of Commerce
Robert Lee Humber, Doctor of Humanities
Pioneer in North Carolina's fine arts movement
Charles S. Murphy, Doctor of Laws
Chairman, Civil Aeronautics Board
William McFerrin Stowe, Doctor of Divinity
Dean, Oklahoma Methodist Pastors School
1966
Earl J. Hamilton, Doctor of Laws
Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
George Watts Hill, Doctor of Laws
Banker; civic leader
John Thomas McNeill, Doctor of Humane Letters
Auburn Professor Emeritus of Church History, Union Theological Seminary
John M. Russell, Doctor of Laws
President, Markle Foundation
Charles H. Townes, Doctor of Science
Provost and Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
James E. Webb, Doctor of Laws
Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
1965
John T. Caldwell, Doctor of Laws
Chancellor, North Carolina State University
Charles A. Cannon, Doctor of Laws
President, Cannon Mills; Trustee of Duke University
John N. Couch, Doctor of Science
Kenan Professor of Botany, University of North Carolina
Harry L. Dalton, Doctor of Humane Letters
Philanthropist and art collector
Gordon Norton Ray, Doctor of Literature
Educator; Vice President, Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Eleanor L. Dulles, Doctor of Literature
Diplomat and teacher
1964
Germaine Bree, Doctor of Humanities
Permanent member, University of Wisconsin Institute for Research in the Humanities
James Franck, Doctor of Science (posthumous)
Nobel prize-winning physicist
J. Deryl Hart, Doctor of Laws
President Emeritus, Duke University
Edgar Finley Shannon, Jr., Doctor of Laws
President, University of Virginia
William Freeman Twaddell, Doctor of Literature
Professor, Brown University
Bunyan Snipes Womble, Doctor of Laws
Attorney; former Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Duke University
1963
William Brantley Aycock, Doctor of Laws
Chancellor, University of North Carolina
A. Merrimon Cuninggim, Doctor of Laws
Executive Director; The Danforth Foundation
Carl Joachim Friedrich, Doctor of Laws
Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University
Gaylord P. Harnwell, Doctor of Laws
President, University of Pennsylvania; atomic physicist
1962
Norman A. Cocke, Doctor of Laws
Former President, Duke Power Company; Former Chairman, Duke University Board of Trustees
James G. Leyburn, Doctor of Laws
George Washington Professor of Sociology, Washington & Lee University
Richard H. Shryock, Doctor of Laws
Librarian, American Philosophical Society
Mary Elizabeth Switzer, Doctor of Humanities
Director, U.S. Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
Aubrey G. Walton, Doctor of Divinity
Member of the World Methodist Council and the General Board of Missions of The Methodist Church
1961
Harold A. Scheraga, Doctor of Science
Chairman, Chemistry Department, Cornell University
Whitney North Seymour, Doctor of Laws
President, American Bar Association
Wilburt Cornell Davison, Doctor of Laws
Former Dean of Medical School, Duke University
1960
W. Kenneth Goodson, Doctor of Divinity
President, Western North Carolina Conference Board of Missions
Henry W. Kendall, Doctor of Literature
Editor, Greensboro Daily News
David Grier Martin, Doctor of Laws
President, Davidson College