| Number |
Date |
President |
Recipient
|
Degree Earned
|
| 1 |
1960
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Laws |
| 2 |
1960
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Laws |
| 3 |
1960
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Laws |
| 4 |
1960
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
Berthold, Fred
Professor of Religion, Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire
|
Doctor of Divinity |
| 5 |
1960
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
Stahr, Elvis Jacob
Former President of West Virginia University and Secretary of the ArmyPresident, Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana
|
Doctor of Laws |
| 6 |
1961
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh
|
|
Doctor of Laws |
| 7 |
1961
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh
|
Smith, Huston Cummings
Professor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
|
Doctor of Letters |
| 8 |
1961
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh
|
|
Doctor of Laws |
| 9 |
1961
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
Kirby, David
Dean of Faculty, Emeritus, Concord College
Athens, West Virginia
|
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 10 |
1961
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Laws |
| 11 |
1962
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
Blandshard, Brand
Sterling Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
|
Doctor of Letters |
| 12 |
1962
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Letters |
| 13 |
1962
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
Hodel, Charles
Former Chairman, West Virginia Centennial Commission
Publisher, Beckley Newspapers Corporation
Beckley, West Virginia
|
Doctor of Laws |
| 14 |
1962
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
McCrady, Edward
Vice-Chancellor and President
The University of the South
Sewanee, Tennessee
|
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 15 |
1963
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
Malik, Charles Habib
Former President of the General Assembly of the United Nations
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, American University of Beirut
Beirut, Lebanon
|
Doctor of Humane Letters
|
| 16 |
1963
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
Hays, Brooks
Former Congressman and Special Assistant to the President of the United States
Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University
New Brunswick, New Jersey
|
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 17 |
1963
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Bachelor of Education |
| 18 |
1964
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
Diehl, George West
Former President of Concord College
Pastor, Old Oxford Presbyterian Church
Lexington, Virginia
|
Doctor of Laws |
| 19 |
1964
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Music |
| 20 |
1964
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 21 |
1965
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Divinity |
| 22 |
1965
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
Dove, Claude Clifford
Professor of Education, Emeritus, New Mexico State University
University Park, New Mexico
|
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 23 |
1965
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
Heflin, Harry Bruce
Former President of Glenville State College
Vice-President, West Virginia University
Morgantown, West Virginia
|
Doctor of Laws |
| 24 |
1965
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Laws |
| 25 |
1966
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 26 |
1966
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Laws |
| 27 |
1967
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Laws |
| 28 |
1967
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 29 |
1967
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Science |
| 30 |
1967
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Laws |
| 31 |
1967
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Science |
| 32 |
1967
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 33 |
1967
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Laws |
| 34 |
1968
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 35 |
1968
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
Lockwood, Theodore Davidge
|
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 36 |
1968
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Letters |
| 37 |
1968
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Laws |
| 38 |
1969
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Laws |
| 39 |
1970
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Laws |
| 40 |
1970
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 41 |
1970
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Science |
| 42 |
1970
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Laws |
| 43 |
1970
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 44 |
1971
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Humanities |
| 45 |
1971
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 46 |
1971
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Laws |
| 47 |
1972
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Humanities |
| 48 |
1972
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 49 |
1972
|
Joseph Franklin Marsh |
|
Doctor of Laws |
| 50 |
1987
|
Jerry L. Beasley |
|
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 51 |
1999
|
Jerry L. Beasley |
|
Bachelor of Arts |
| 52 |
2003
|
Jerry L. Beasley |
|
Doctor of Business Administration |
| 53 |
2006
|
Jerry L. Beasley |
|
Doctor of Humanitarian Service |
| 54 |
2006
|
Jerry L. Beasley |
|
Doctor of Humanitarian Service |
| 55 |
2006
|
Jerry L. Beasley |
|
Doctor of Education |
| 56 |
2007
|
Jerry L. Beasley |
|
Doctor of Humanitarian Service |
|
The West Virginia Board of Education, at its meeting of October 26-27, 1959, authorized Concord College* to award honorary degrees. The first honorary degrees were conferred on May 14, 1960, at the Inauguration of Joseph Franklin Marsh, Jr., as Thirteenth President of the College, with Dr. Phillip Mallory Conley of Charleston, West Virginia, receiving the first such degree awarded by the College.
*Concord College became Concord University on July 1, 2004
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