Honor Council

*Licia Albanese (1913 – 2014)
Operatic Soprano, leading artist at the New York Metropolitan Opera from 1940 – 1966

Lucine Amara (1924 –)
Operatic Soprano, leading artist at the New York Metropolitan Opera from 1950 – 1991

*Dame Judith Anderson (1887 – 1982)
Actress of stage, film and television; winner of two Emmy Awards and a Tony, nominated for a Grammy and Academy Award

*George Balanchine (1904 – 1983)
One of the 20th century’s most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, and the co-founder and balletmaster of the New York City Ballet

*Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948 –)
Russian dancer, choreographer, and actor, considered one of the greatest ballet dancers in history

*Ann Barzel (1905 – 2007)
American writer, critic and lecturer on dance

Saul Bellow (1915 – 2005)
Novelist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts

Rosamond Bernier (1916 –2016)
Features editor, lecturer, television performer, book author

*Wendell Berry (1934 –)
Prolific author of novels, short stories, poems, and essays. Books include A Place on Earth, Jayber Crow, and Hannah Coulter.

Livingston L. Biddle (1918 – 2002)
Author and promoter of funding for the arts

Victor Borge (1909 – 2002)
Comedian, conductor and pianist

Ernest H. Brooks, II (1935 – 2020)
Award-winning underwater photographer, consultant, speaker

Dr. Preston Bradley (1888 – 1983)
Clergyman, author, and lecturer

J. Carter Brown (1934 – 2002)
Director of the U.S. National Gallery of Art from 1969 – 1992

*Fernando Bujones (1955 – 2005)
One of the finest male dancers of the 20th century and hailed as one of the greatest American male dancers of his generation

John Burnett (1956 -)
National Public Radio correspondent based in Austin, Texas

*Sarah Caldwell (1924 – 2006)
Notable American opera conductor, impresario, and opera stage director, featured on the cover of the November 10, 1975 issue of Time magazine with the heading, “Music’s Wonder Woman”

Zoe Caldwell (1933 – 2020)
Tony award-winning actress

John Ciardi (1916 – 1986)
Poet, translator, and etymologist

Alma Lachenbruch Clayburgh (1882 – 1958)
Concert and opera singer, grandmother of actress Jill Clayburgh

Van Cliburn (1934 – 2013)
Piano virtuoso, winner of many international awards

Nadine Conner (1907 – 2003)
Operatic soprano, radio singer and music teacher

Allyn Cox (1896 – 1982)
Artist known for his murals, including those he painted in the U.S. Capitol and the U. S. Department of State

Merce Cunningham (1919 – 2009)
Avant-garde choreographer, founder Merce Cunningham Dance Company

*Jean Dalrymple (1902 – 1998)
Theater producer, manager, publicist, author and playwright who was instrumental in the founding of New York City Center and is best known for her productions there

Alexandra Danilova (1903 – 1997)
Prima ballerina, teacher at the School of American Ballet from 1964 – 1989

*Agnes de Mille (1905 – 1993)
American dancer and choreographer

Adolph Deutsch (1897 – 1980)
Composer, conductor, arranger, winner of Academy Award for background music for Oklahoma!

Placido Domingo (1941 –)
Tenor, conductor, winner of 12 Grammy awards

*Ruth Windmüller Duckworth (1919 – 2009)
Modernist sculptor who specialized in ceramics

*Loti Falk Gaffney (1911 –2015)
Founder of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre

*José Ferrer (1912 – 1992)
Stage and screen actor and director, won a Tony for his stage performance as Cyrano in Cyrano de Bergerac, and an Academy Award for the same screen role

*Geraldine Fitzgerald (1913 – 2005)
Irish-American actress and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame

*Stephen Flaherty (1960 –)
American Musical Theater composer, including Ragtime which was nominated for 12 Tony Awards and won Best Original Score.

Malcolm Frager (1935 – 1991)
Piano virtuoso and recording artist

Frederick Franklin (1914 – 2013)
Dancer for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, co-founder of the Slavenska-Franklin Ballet and founding director of the National Ballet in Washington, D.C.

Albert Earl Gilbert (1939 –)
Wildlife artist, winner of international book award

David Gockley (1943 –)
General director, Houston Grand Opera, 1972 – 2005; general director, San Francisco Opera since 2006

Ann Hamilton (1956 –)
Artist best known for her installations, textile art, and sculptures

Julie Harris (1925 – 2013)
Stage, screen, and television actress, winner of 5 Tony Awards, 3 Emmy Awards and a Grammy

*Kitty Carlisle Hart (1910 – 2007)
Singer, actress and spokesmen for the arts, best remembered as a regular panelist on television game show To Tell the Truth

Helen Hayes (1900 – 1993)
Actress, one of 12 to win Oscar, Tony, Emmy, and Grammy Awards

Anthony Hecht (1923 – 2004)
Poet, received National Medal of Arts, Poet Laureate Consultant to the Library of Congress

Charlton Heston (1923 – 2008)
Actor for film, theater, and television

Jerome Hines (1921 – 2003)
Operatic bass, performed at the Metropolitan Opera for 41 years

*Albert “Al” Hirschfeld (1903 – 2003)
An American caricaturist best known for his simple black and white portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars.

Celeste Holm (1917-2012)
Actress for stage, television and film, won Oscar for Gentleman’s Agreement

Mark C. Honeywell (1874 – 1964)
Electronic industrialist, founder of Honeywell, Incorporated

*Marilyn Horne (1934 –)
Mezzo-soprano opera singer who specialized in roles requiring a large sound, beauty of tone, excellent breath support, and ability to execute difficult coloratura passages

Mrs. Leland Atherton Irish (Florence M. Irish) (1889 – 1971)
Manager and principal backer of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

*Michael Kahn (1937 –)
American Shakespeare theatre director and drama educator

*Judy Kaye (1948 –)
Tony Award winning actress and singer of Broadway, opera, and stage

Deborah Kerr (1921 – 2007)
Award winning actress of stage, film and television

Walter F. Kerr (1913 – 1996)
Drama critic and Pulitzer Prize winning author

Frances Bartlett Kinne (1917 – 2020)
Former president of Jacksonville University, former Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Jacksonville University (first woman in the world to hold such a position), award-winning author and first woman president of the International Council of Fine Arts

Mrs. Goodwin J. Knight (1918 – 2010)
Poet and historical preservationist

Nathalie Krassovska (1919 – 2005)
Prima ballerina and teacher

Robert Kuhn (1920 – 2007)
Award-winning wildlife artist, teacher

Tom Lea, III (1907 – 2001)
Legendary Texas artist and author

*Daniel Lewis (1943 –)
Internationally recognized dancer, teacher, choreographer and author

*John Lithgow (1945 –)
American character actor (stage, television, film and radio), musician, and author

Mrs. John A. Logan (Rebecca Pollard “Polly” Guggenheim Logan) (1904 – 1994)
Philanthropist, prominent Washington, D.C. hostess, artist and patron of the arts

Robert Ludlum (1927 – 2001)
Novelist, actor on stage and television, producer

William Mastrosimone (1947 – )
Playwright and screenwriter

Patricia McBride (1942 – 2019)
Ballerina, New York City Ballet for three decades / Artistic director North Carolina Dance Theater

*Robert McCall (1919 – 2010)
An illustrator for Life magazine in the 1960s, created promotional artwork for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey and Richard Fleischer’s production Tora! Tora! Tora!; worked as an artist for NASA, documenting the history of the space race

Eleanor Searle McCollum (1910 – 2002)
Singer and philanthropist

*Trey McIntyre (1959 –)
Dancer and choreographer, created a canon of more than 90 works for companies including Houston Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet; founder of the Trey McIntyre Project

William B. Macomber (1921 – 2003)
Statesman, first full-time president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Thalia Mara (1910 – 2003)
Dancer and Ballet educator, promoter

Peter Martins (1946 –)
Dancer, choreographer, Ballet Master of the New York City Ballet

Merril C. Meigs (1883 – 1968)
Publisher of Chicago Herald and Examiner

Yehudi Menuhin (1916 – 1999)
Violinist and conductor

*James A. Michener (1907 – 1997)
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of more than 40 titles, most of which were sweeping sagas.  Book titles include Hawaii, The Source, Tales of the South Pacific, and Chesapeake

Patrice Munsel (1925 – 2016)
Coloratura soprano, star of opera, musical theater, television, and film

*Jim Nabors (1930 –2017)
American actor and singer best known for his role as Gomer Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show and Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

*Louise Nevelson (1899 – 1988)
American sculptor known for her monumental, monochromatic, wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures.

*Charles Neidich (1953 –)
Clarinetist, soloist, conductor, collaborator, and faculty member / Mannes College of Music, The Juilliard School, The Manhattan School, the SUNY Graduate School, and the Aaron Copland School of Music

Isamu Noguchi (1904 – 1988)
Sculptor, furniture designer, landscape architect