Pete Carril, Basketball Hall-of-Famer and former Princeton coach; Aretha Franklin, the singer known as “the Queen of Soul”; Eduardo Padrón, president of Miami Dade College; Joan Wallach Scott, the Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study; Joseph Taylor Jr., the James McDonnell Distinguished Professor of Physics, emeritus, at Princeton; and Karen Uhlenbeck, the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair in Mathematics at the University of Texas-Austin.

Aretha Franklin — now Dr. Franklin — draws cheers and applause.
Aretha Franklin — now Dr. Franklin — draws cheers and applause.
PHOTO: BEVERLY SCHAEFER