1950 Recipients
| Name | Biographical Information | Degree Awarded | Inst. |
| Hon. Anthony J. Dimond | Lawyer, Alaska delegate to Congress 1933-45 | LL.D. | UA |
| Helge Larsen | Anthropologist | D. Science | UA |
1951 Recipients
| Name | Biographical Information | Degree Awarded | Inst. |
| Gen. Nathan Farragut Twining | US Chief of Staff, Air Force | LL.D. | UA |
| Hon. Earl Warren | Chief Justice, US Supreme Court | D. Public Service | UA |
| Henry Bradford Washburn Jr. | Dir Museum of Science, authority on Mt. McKinley | Ph.D. | UA |
1952 Recipients
| Name | Biographical Information | Degree Awarded | Inst. |
| Andrew Nerland | Board of Regents' Member & President 1929-56; territorial legislator; Fairbanks businessman | D. Laws | UA |
| John C. Reed | Executive Director of Arctic Inst. of North America | D. Science | UA |
1953 Recipients
| Name | Biographical Information | Degree Awarded | Inst. |
| Ernest N. Patty | One of first faculty members of the University of Alaska; President of University of Alaska 1953-60 | D. Engineering | UA |
| Merle A. Tuve | Director of the U.S. Department of Terrestrial Magnetism | D. Science | UA |
1954 Recipients
| Name | Biographical Information | Degree Awarded | Inst. |
| Col. Bernt Balchen | Pioneer Arctic aviator; The Air Attache | D. Science | UA |
| Henry Schmitz | President Emeritus, University of Washington | D. Science | UA |
1955 Recipients
| Name | Biographical Information | Degree Awarded | Inst. |
| William Fife Knowland | US Senator from California | LL.D. | UA |
| Col. Walter A Wood | Arctic Inst. of North America | D. Science | UA |
| Sir Hubert Wilkins |
Polar Explorer | D. Science | UA |
| George Gasser |
Territorial Representative in 1951; former faculty member of UA in agriculture and dean of men fron 1928 to 1945. 1st Alaska Commissioner of Agriculture | D. Science | UA |
| Ernest Gruening | US Senator for Alaska; Territorial Governor of Alaska | D. Science | UA |
1956 Recipients
| Name | Biographical Information | Degree Awarded | Inst. |
| Hon. Edith S. Green | US Congresswoman from Oregon | LL.D. | UA |
| Zachariah J. Loussac | Mayor of Anchorage | LL.D. | UA |
1957 Recipients
| Name | Biographical Information | Degree Awarded | Inst. |
| Elsie May Bell Grosvenor | National Geographic Society | LL.D. | UA |
| Gilbert Grosvenor | National Geographic Society | LL.D. | UA |
| Otto William Geist | Pioneer Alaskan Archeologist | D. Science | UA |
| Norman M. MacKenzie | President of U of British Columbia | LL.D. | UA |
1958 Recipients
| Name | Biographical Information | Degree Awarded | Inst. |
| Sydney Chapman | Geophysicist | D. Science | UA |
| Fred A. Seaton | US Secretary of Interior | LL.D. | UA |
| Michael J. Walsh | Board of Regents' Member; Territorial Representative from Nome | LL.D. | UA |
| C. Marie Drake | Territorial Asstistant Commissioner of Education; "Alaska Flag Song" author | D. Litt. | UA |
| Franklin C. Fry | Director of the Lutheran Church Home | D. Litt. | UA |
1959 Recipients
| Name | Biographical Information | Degree Awarded | Inst. |
| Lydia Fohn-Hansen | Director of UA Home Economics Extension Service | D. Humanities | UA |
| Don Irwin | 1st Director Agricultural Experiment Station in Palmer | D. Humanities | UA |
| George Lehleitner | Businessman from Louisiana who assisted in Alaska statehood by promoting the "Tennessee Plan" | LL.D. | UA |
| Leo W. O'Brien | US Congressman from New York | LL.D. | UA |
| Edward Teller | Director of the University of California Radiation Lab | D. Science | UA |
