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This past academic year, highlights have included the establishment of a Board of Visitors; the appointment of two new campus deans, Marian Pettengill at IU South Bend and Penny Cass at IU Kokomo; recognition of the Community Health Nursing Department by the American Public Health Association; sponsoring two nurse recipients for IU honorary degrees, Hildegard Peplau at IUPUI and Elizabeth Carnegie at IU Southeast; and celebrating the induction in 1993 and 1994 of four more faculty into the American Academy of Nursing.
Hoover's agents received special commendations for such petty deeds as getting Marquette University to withdraw an honorary doctorate it had planned to award King.
(Belatedly, in 1895, Harvard awarded him an honorary doctorate and was rewarded by the bequest of his Indian manuscripts and editions.)
Movies : Elia Kazan, an informer, was an enormously unpopular choice for an honorary Oscar.
Honorary (a k a "lifetime achievement" or "deathbed") Oscars are typically consolation prizes, given to people whose work was overlooked in its time--such as Cary Grant, Howard Hawks, Federico Fellini, and Stanley Donen, none of whom ever won a real Oscar.