In recent years, Elizabethtown College has awarded an honorary degree to the following individuals:

2009     Mary Ellen McNish, general secretary of the American Friends Service Committee. Peter J. Whipple (shown above), borough manager of Elizabethtown, Pa.

2008     Dr. Arthur Levine, president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

2007     Derek Hathaway, chairman and chief executive officer of Harsco Corporation. Pennsylvania Senator David Brightbill, former state legislator. Pennsylvania Senator Noah Wenger, former state legislator.  

2006     Christopher Gates, executive director of the Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement. John Craig, former U.S. ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman and Elizabethtown College scholar-in-residence. Frank M. Masters Jr., noted Harrisburg-area philanthropist and civil engineer.

2005     Anne Beiler, the founder of Auntie Anne’s, Inc., franchisor of the world’s largest mall-based pretzel franchise, Auntie Anne’s Hand-Rolled Soft Pretzels. Doris Gordon, founder of Elizabethtown’s occupational therapy program. Susan Eckert, president and
chief executive officer of the United Way of Lancaster County (Pa.).