1960 Recipients
| Name | Biographical Information | Degree Awarded | Inst. |
| E.L. (Bob) Barlett | US Senator from Alaska | LL.D. | UA |
| Gerald Fitzgerald | Land Use Planning Commission | D. Science | UA |
1961 Recipients
| Name | Biographical Information | Degree Awarded | Inst |
| Ralph J. Bunche | Undersecretary, United Nations | LL.D. | UA |
| William B. Osgood Field | Glacierologist | D. Science | UA |
| William K. Keller | Former UA faculty member | LL.D. | UA |
| Milton D. Snodgrass | Territorial Legislator; Board of Regents' member | D. Science | UA |
1962 Recipients
| Name | Biographical Information | Degree Awarded | Inst |
| Robert Rolland Armstrong | President, Sheldon Jackson College | D. Humanities | UA |
| Wayne N. Aspinall | US Congressman from Colorado | LL.D. | UA |
| Lowell J. Thomas Sr. | Acclaimed American writer | LL.D. | UA |
| Noel Wien | Pioneer Alaskan Aviator | D. Science | UA |
1963 Recipients
| Name | Biographical Information | Degree Awarded | Inst. |
| James H. Doolittle | Space Technology Laboratory | D. Science | UA |
| Robert Reeve | President, Reeve Aleutian Airways | D. Science | UA |
| Robert Shaw | Noted conductor and founder of Robert Shaw Chorale | D. Fine Arts | UA |
| Lola Cremeans Tilly | UA Dean of Home Economics | D. Humanities | UA |
1964 Recipients
| Name | Biographical Information | Degree Awarded | Inst. |
| C. Earl Albrecht | Board of Regents' Member; Territorial Commissioner of Health | D. Science | UA |
| Tadao Sasayama | President of Alaska Lumber & Pulp Company | LL.D. | UA |
| Luther L. Terry | Surgeon General, US Public Health Service | LL.D. | UA |
1965 Recipients
| Name | Biographical Information | Degree Awarded | Inst. |
| Clinton P. Anderson | US Senator from New Mexico | LL.D. | UA |
| Max C. Brewer | Director, Arctic Research Laboratory | D. Science | UA |
1966 Recipients
| Name | Biographical Information | Degree Awarded | Inst. |
| Juan Trippe | Chairman, Pan American World Airways | LL.D. | UA |
| Dr. Lawrence Kimpton | Vice President, Standard Oil of Indiana | LL.D. | UA |
| Harold McCracken | Director, Whitney Gallery of Western Art & Buffalo Bill Historical Center | D. Litt. | UA |
| Mary Hale | Founder of the Alaska Music Festival | D. Fine Arts | UA |
1967 Recipients
| Name | Biographical Information | Degree Awarded | Inst. |
| Dr. Terris Moore | President of UA 1949-53; noted high elevation aviator. | LL.D. | UA |
| Charles W. Snedden | Publisher, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner | LL.D. | UA |
| Rear Admiral Henry L. Miller | Chief of Information, US Navy | LL.D. | UA |
| Dr. Frederick P. McGinnis | President, Alaska Methodist University | D. Humanities | UA |
| Evangeline Atwood | Alaska historian and author | D. Litt | UA |
| Dr. Philip H. Moore | Board of Regents' Member 1954-65; Sitka Physician | D. Science | UA |
1968 Recipients
| Name | Biographical Information | Degree Awarded | Inst. |
| William C. Herrington | Special Assistant to U.S. Secretary of State for Fisheries and Wildlife | LL.D. | UA |
| Joseph H. FitzGerald | Chair, Federal Field Committee for Development Planning in Alaska | LL.D. | UA |
| Maurice Wilfred Goding | Aide to Secretary of Interior | LL.D. | UA |
| Rev. Dr. Walter A. Soboleff | Grand President, Alaska Native Brotherhood | D. Humanities | UA |
| Dr. Keith B. Mather | Director of Geophysical Institute and Professor of Pysics at UA | D. Science | UA |
| Dr. Laurence Irving | Advisory Scientific Director & Professor Zoophysiology, Institude of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska | D. Science | UA |
1969 Recipients
| Name | Biographical Information | Degree Awarded | Inst. |
| Louise Arner Boyd | First Woman to reach North Pole 1955 | D. Science | UA |
| Joel W. Baker M.D. | Physician from the Mason Clinic | LL.D. | UA |
| Christian T. Elvey | Director Emeritus of the Geophysical Institute | D. Science | UA |
| Rev. Bert J. Bingle | Rev. Alaska pioneer missionary | D. Huamnities | UA |
| Robert O. Anderson | Chairman of the Board, Atlantic Richfield Co. | LL.D. | UA |
| Earl H. Beistline | Prof. of Mining Eng., Dean, College of Earth Sciences | LL.D. | UA |
