The Wentz Award
The Wentz Award
The Wentz Award, established by the Corriher-Linn-Black Library of Catawba College in honor of Frances Decker Wentz, is presented annually to a Junior or Senior student, having served at least two years as a student assistant in the Library, who has demonstrated, through distinguished performance of duties, a real concern and aptitude for the theory and practice of library science and service.
The Wentz Award is given at the annual Spring Awards Convocation. An individual crystal paperweight is presented to the student winner.
Recipients of the Wentz Award
2020 - Present
| 2022/23 | Kristen Marie Ault |
| 2021/22 | Bailey Wilson Birkhead |
| 2020/21 | Jacob Robert Aiton and L. Daniel Harvey |
2010s
| 2019/20 | Emily Louise Fogleman |
| 2018/19 | Tafari Shariff Lanclos |
| 2017/18 | Kala Elizabeth Byrd and Chelsea Elizabeth Hatfield |
| 2016/17 | Angelica Crisafulli and Cynthia Snipes |
| 2015/16 | Anna Elizabeth Carter and Forest Moon Fugate |
| 2014/15 | No Recipient |
| 2013/14 | No Recipient |
| 2012/13 | Katherine Carpenter and Maggie Keeble |
| 2011/12 | Mackenzie Westbrook and Whitney Mullis |
| 2010/11 | Kaitlyn Benjes |
2000s
| 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 |
1990s
| 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 |
1980s
| 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 Recipient |
| 1983/84 | Jervetta Renee Campbell |
| 1982/83 | Sheila Denise Black |
| 1981/82 | Susan Sidden |
| 1980/81 | Philip Harvey Myers |
1970s
| 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 |
