The Frances Decker Wentz Award, established in honor of Frances Decker Wentz by the Corriher-Linn-Black Library of Catawba College, is presented annually to a Junior or Senior student, having worked at least two years as a student assistant in the Library, who has demonstrated, through distinguished performance of responsibilities, a real concern and aptitude for the theory and practice of library science and service.
The Frances Decker Wentz Award is given at the Annual Awards Assembly. An individual plaque is presented to the student winner. In addition, the name of the winner and the year of the presentation are engraved on a permanent plaque displayed in the Corriher-Linn-Black Library.
| School Year | Recipient(s) |
|---|---|
| 2010/11 | Kaitlyn Benjes |
| 2009/10 | Neil Gonzalves |
| 2008/09 | Sarah Dalida Blackmore |
| 2007/08 | Lauren Alston Smith |
| 2006/07 | Angela Fontaine Jacobs |
| 2005/06 | Lindsay Mellon |
| 2004/05 | Darrell Smith |
| 2003/04 | Daniel Safrait |
| 2002/03 | Virginia Summey |
| 2001/02 | Matthew Millspaugh |
| 2000/01 | Heather Morgan |
| 1999/00 | Nicole Michele Lochead |
| 1998/99 | Kerry Nelison |
| 1997/98 | Margaret Elizabeth Nachtigall |
| 1996/97 | Gerry Frances Ingle |
| 1995/96 | Charlena Alise Harvell, Karen Elizabeth Witkop |
| 1994/95 | Jennifer Gelien |
| 1993/94 | Elaine Elizabeth Doll, John Matthew McGrath |
| 1992/93 | Dianne Y. Hill |
| 1991/92 | Sonya Hopkins |
| 1990/91 | Christine Frizche |
| 1989/90 | Scarlet Paige Stone |
| 1988/89 | Dewey Yeatts |
| 1987/88 | Rhonda Grant |
| 1986/87 | Robert Conway Bates |
| 1985/86 | Margaret Grant, Sally Wright |
| 1984/85 | No Award Given |
| 1983/84 | Jervetta Renee Campbell |
| 1982/83 | Sheila Denise Black |
| 1981/82 | Susan Sidden |
| 1980/81 | Philip Harvey Myers |
| 1979/80 | Yolanda Ellerbe |
| 1978/79 | Rebecca Sue Williams |
| 1977/78 | Lea Ann Moreton |
| 1976/77 | Deborah Denise Ward |
| 1975/76 | Dana Leigh Stafford |
| 1974/75 | Richard D. Bliss |
| 1973/74 | Jane Moody |