Honors
In recognition of her commitment to good teaching, her tenacity on behalf of students and her vision of increased educational opportunity, she was the recipient of ten honorary degrees, including two on the same day from Davidson College and Coker College. Others came from Belmont Abbey, Queens, Wake Forest, Pfeiffer, UNC Charlotte, Duke, Mt. Holyoke and Lander.
She was WBT Radio's Woman of the Year in 1956, recipient of the National Conference of Christian and Jews Silver Medallion for citizenship in 1962, winner of the Charlotte Civitan Club and the North Carolina District of Civitan International's Distinguished Citizen Award in 1965, and winner of the 26th Judicial District Bar Association's Law Day Liberty Bell Award in 1966.
During her lifetime, she received 10 honorary degrees from various colleges and universities
In 2004 the stretch of U.S. Highway 29 near the main campus was officially renamed the "Dr. Bonnie Cone Memorial Highway."
She was also named the first sweetheart for the Psi Delta Chapter of the Chi Phi Fraternity at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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