Here's A List Of ASU's Previous Honorary Degree Recipients....

[BlooInBloo]

Do you mean to tell me, ASU, that Obama has accomplished less than ALL 171 of them? Hell - I only even *recognize* the names of 5-10 of them, tops.

Get the fuck out, ASU.

http://graduation.asu.edu/honorary/past

Frederick M. Irish May 28, 1940
Arthur John Matthews May 28, 1940
Charles A. Stauffer May 22, 1951
Samuel Henry Morris May 26, 1953
Ira Dawson Payne May 26, 1953
Abraham Lincoln Krohn May 24, 1955
Arthur Ervin Smith May 24, 1955
Alfred Knight May 29, 1956
Harvey Leslie Taylor May 29, 1956
Daniel Earl Noble May 28, 1957
Howard Pyle May 28, 1957
Walter Reed Bimson May 27, 1958
John Cromwell Lincoln May 27, 1958
Carl Sauer May 27, 1958
Carlos P. Garcia June 25, 1958
Eugene Collins Pulliam May 26, 1959
Carl Hayden Nov. 14, 1959
John Robert Murdock May 31, 1960
Barry Morris Goldwater May 30, 1961
George W. Romney June 5, 1962
Linton Elias Grinter June 5, 1962
Walter Early Craig June 4, 1963
Lynn Meade Laney June 4, 1963
Harvey Harlow Nininger June 4, 1963
Lillian Moller Gilbreth May 26, 1964
Julius Charles Wetzler May 26, 1964
Stewart Lee Udall June 1, 1965
George Fuller Miller June 1, 1965
John Alfred Hannah May 27, 1966
James Bryon McCormick May 27, 1966
Harold David Richardson May 26, 1967
Robert Jeffrey Hannelly May 26, 1967
Karl Clayton Leebrick May 26, 1967
Lewis Judah Ruskin June 4, 1968
Harlan Cleveland June 4, 1968
John Hope Franklin June 3, 1969
Frank Borman June 3, 1969
Charles Stewart Mott Jan 13, 1970
Ernest J. Hopkins June 2, 1970
George Homer Durham June 1, 1971
Richard A. Harvill June 1, 1971
Arthur B. Schellenberg June 1, 1971
Pablo Casals Mar 30, 1972
Raul H. Castro June 2, 1972
O.D. Miller June 2, 1972
Paolo Soleri May 18, 1973
Ernest W. McFarland May 18, 1973
Paul Rappaport May 17, 1974
Hugh Downs May 17, 1974
Herbert G. Fales May 16, 1975
Robert W. Galvin May 16, 1975
Mae S. Talley May 14, 1976
John J. Rhodes May 14, 1976
Louise Lincoln Kerr May 13, 1977
Bart Jan Bok May 19, 1978
Henry Eyring May 19, 1978
David C. Lincoln May 18, 1979
Erma Bombeck May 16, 1980
Vincent Persichetti May 16, 1980
Paul L. Singer May 16, 1980
Robert Penn Warren April 21, 1980
Philip C. Curtis May 15, 1981
Herb and Dorothy McLaughlin May 15, 1981
Steve Allen May 14, 1982
Fredi Chiappelli May 14, 1982
James Dickey May 14, 1982
Alan duBois May 14, 1982
Mstislav Rostropovich Aug. 6, 1982
Martha Graham Oct. 17, 1982
Tom Chauncey May 15, 1983
G.M. Sollenberger May 15, 1983
Sandra Day O'Connor May 11, 1984
James William Creasman May 11, 1984
Leontyne Price March 8, 1985
Edward F. Albee May 17, 1985
William A. Fowler May 17, 1985
Northurp H. Fry May 17, 1985
Kathryn K. Gammage May 17, 1985
William G. Payne May 17, 1985
Edward J. Dwight, Jr. May 16, 1986
Sylvia Porter May 16, 1986
John I. Yellott Aug. 8, 1986
William Reilley Nov. 7, 1986
Henry Cisneros Dec. 19, 1986
Frank Snell May 15, 1987
Gerald Wasserburg May 15, 1987
Virginia Galvin Piper May 15, 1987
Mo Udall Aug. 7, 1987
Kax Herberger Aug. 7, 1987
Edson W. Spencer Dec. 18, 1987
Robert S. Dietz May 13, 1988
Robert J. Eggert Aug. 5, 1988
Jovita R. Salonga Dec. 16, 1988
Art Buchwald Dec. 16, 1988
Walter Cronkite May 12, 1989
Lorraine Frank May 12, 1989
William Kajikawa Aug. 5, 1989
Pearl Bailey Dec. 22, 1989
Rabbi Albert Plotkin Dec. 22, 1989
Yuan T. Lee May 11, 1990
G. Robert Herberger May 10, 1991
Frank X. Gordon Dec. 8, 1991
Cesar Chavez May 11, 1992
Tony Hillerman May 11, 1992
Alan Pritsker May 11, 1992
Willard Pedrick May 11, 1992
Marvin Morrison Aug. 11, 1992
Karsten Solheim Dec. 18, 1992
Louise Solheim Dec. 18, 1992
Daniel Nagrin Dec. 18, 1992
Dwight Patterson May 11, 1993
Jesse Jones May 11, 1993
Polly Rosenbaum May 11, 1993
Edward Carson Aug. 10, 1993
Paul Elsner Dec. 14, 1993
Rose Mofford May 11, 1994
Herman Chanen May 11, 1994
Keith Turley Aug. 5, 1994
Virginia Ullman Aug. 5, 1994
Maxine Marshall Dec. 14, 1994
Jonathan Marshall Dec. 14, 1994
Margaret Gisolo Dec. 14, 1994
Edward Bud Jacobson May 14, 1995
Rita Dove May 14, 1995
Ernest Boyer May 14, 1995
Florence Nelson Aug. 10, 1995
William S. Shover May 10, 1996
Gary L. Tooker May 10, 1996
Frank J. Sackton Aug. 9, 1996
Chang-Lin Tien Dec. 20, 1996
John F. Long Dec. 20, 1996
Paul J. Fannin May 16, 1997
Jack W. Whiteman May 16, 1997
Newton Rosenzweig Aug. 8, 1997
John P. Frank Dec. 19, 1997
Craig R. Barrett May 15, 1998
Wm. Polk Carey Aug. 7, 1998
Norman William Fain Dec. 18, 1998
Leon Howard Sullivan Dec. 18, 1998
Eddie Basha May 14, 1999
Raul Yzaguirre May 14, 1999
Alfredo Gutierrez Dec. 17, 1999
Craig E. Weatherup Dec. 17, 1999
Barbara McConnell Barrett May 11, 2000
Rudy E. Campbell May 11, 2000
Nadine Severns Carson Aug. 4, 2000
Lamonte H. Lawrence Aug. 4, 2000
L. Roy Papp Dec. 14, 2000
Marilyn A. Papp Dec. 14, 2000
L. William Seidman Dec. 14, 2000
Alice Wiley Snell May 10, 2001
Richard Berlin Snell May 10, 2001
Robert H. Johnson Aug. 31, 2001
Delbert Ray Lewis Dec. 31, 2001
Jewell McFarland Lewis Dec. 31, 2001
Jerry Colangelo May 9, 2002
Rex G. Maughan May 9, 2002
John R. Christian Aug. 2, 2002
Bob Stump Dec. 19, 2002
Rita R. Colwell May 13, 2004
Rafael Rangel Sostmann May 13, 2004
Lawrence Douglas Wilder May 13, 2004
Peterson Zah May 12, 2005
Blake Edwards Sep. 23, 2005
Lord John Browne of Madingley Dec. 15, 2005
The Right Honourable Kim Campbell Dec. 15, 2005
Wu Qidi May 11, 2006
Frank H.T. Rhodes May 11, 2006
J. Craig Venter May 10, 2007
Leland Hartwell Dec. 13, 2007
James J. Duderstadt May 14, 2008

[PBS Poll-435]

1. City Council Member (and) later Mayor Cicneros was probably not worthy at 39

Who am I to judge?

:shrug:

[HowHasItComeToThis]

2. ................GHOULS..........................

[mwei924]

3. Blake Edwards is like the most famous one in recent years...

..and all he did was direct Breakfast at Tiffany's and marry Julie Andrews!

[MgtPA]

14. Well, Pink Panther might qualify him...

[Ken Burch]

4. Just so everyone knows, "Raul H. Castro" is a former Arizona governor.

They did NOT give an honorary degree to THIS guy:

[BlooInBloo]

5. Damn. Cross one off the list of names I recognized.

[Cha]

11. I know Pearl Bailey,

don't you? Am I the only one who knows Pearly?

[BlooInBloo]

18. Didn't she do denture commercials or somthing? Or was she the "pinky toe" lady in Harlem Nights?

Something like that?

[Cha]

19. Pearl Mae Bailey..

<snip>

"Pearl Bailey's sudden death at the age of 72 deprived America of one of its best-known goodwill ambassadors. The energetic and personable Bailey was beloved by three generations of theater and movie fans, and was the favorite of presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, and Gerald Ford. In the Washington Post, Joseph McLellan called Bailey "America's ambassador of love," adding: "She used her voice--and her heart--to become an eloquent advocate for the poor, oppressed and suffering, working to promote interracial harmony and more recently to help those worldwide suffering from AIDS."


http://www.musicianguide.com/biographies/1608001222/Pearl-Bailey.html

[BlooInBloo]

21. She looks/ed like Queen Latifah.

(or vice-versa, I suppose)

[Cha]

24. Queen is like

a reincarnation of Pearl:D

[Robeysays]

6. hey, tool, asu doesn't give honorary degrees to sitting politicians.

nt

[iamthebandfanman]

7. then whyd they give it to foreign politicians?

or how about barry goldwater, who was a senator at the time?

[depakid]

8. Henry Cisneros was mayor of San Antonio in 1986

oops.

[BlooInBloo]

9. (facepalm)

[Cha]

12. Who you callin'

tool, fool?

[vaberella]

13. EPIC FAIL!!! n/t

[PBS Poll-435]

15. Robey Says FAIL

:aweshucks:

[Reterr]

10. Screw them

They have a sucky engineering dept. anyway :-P.

[LiberalFighter]

16. Who are they? Geesh most of them don't know.

[BlooInBloo]

17. All you need to know is that all of them are more qualified than Obama.

:rofl:

[liberaltrucker]

20. Dupe

[friedgreentomatoes]

22. The names 2nd and 3rd from last

are from my area of work.
Hartwell is a Nobel Prize winner .. did a lot of work in cell cycle regulation. super guy.
Venter is......... the one associated with the human genome project.

[WyLoochka]

23. As some commenter on another

site observed:

ASU degrees are printed on beer cans.

After all, it's famous for making number 3 on the last Playboy ranking of top 10 Party Schools. The slackers got bumped from the number 1 spot achieved in previous rankings.

[AZ Criminal JD]

25. What is your degree printed on?

or did you use it in the bathroom?

[Fire1]

26. uh oh. Sometimes folks don't think before they type.

[Fire1]

27. ...And we're all guilty from time to time.

[rufus dog]

28. My favorite is John F. Long

Where would we as a Society, and the Valley of the Sun be without the lovely town of Maryvale? What a beautiful community!


:sarcasm: