St. Katharine Drexel Award
The St. Katharine Drexel Award was established in 1966 under the title Certificate of Merit and renamed in 2002. Presented by the High School and Young Adult Library Services Section through the St. Katharine Drexel Award Committee, the St. Katharine Drexel Award recognizes an outstanding contribution to the growth of high school librarianship.
St. Katharine Drexel Award recipients
- 2008 Walter Dean Myers
- 2007 Caroline B. Cooney (details)
- 2006 Patrick Jones (details)
- 2005 Chris Crutcher
- 2004 Norma Fox Mazer
- 2003 Rosen Publishing, Roger Rosen, President
- 2002 Joan Lowery Nixon
Certificate of Merit recipients
- 2001 Sharon Draper
- 1998 Enslow Publisher
- 1997 Social Issues Resource Series (SIRS)
- 1996 Winnebago Software Company
- 1995 Donald R. Gallo
- 1994 Follett Library Book and Software Companies
- 1993 Sister Francis Marita McGettigan, IHM
- 1992 St. Anthony Messenger Press
- 1991 United States Catholic Conference
- 1990 Ave Maria Press
- 1989 Reverend John Powell
- 1988 Reverend John Catoir
- 1987 World Book
- 1986 Judge Michael F. Godfrey
- 1985 Doubleday Image Books
- 1984 James Clayton
- 1983 Marjorie Holmes
- 1982 Peggy Sullivan
- 1981 Ruth Ann Davies
- 1980 Margaret Allen Waltzer
- 1979 Scholastic Magazines / Press
- 1978 Field Enterprises
- 1977 Sister Mary Arthur Hoagland, IHM
- 1976 Lillian Shapiro
- 1975 Jane Hindman
- 1974 Reverend John R. Whitley
- 1973 Monsignor Edward T. Hughes
- 1972 Media and Methods
- 1971 American Association of School Librarians, ALA
- 1970 Isaac Asimov
- 1969 Time-Life Books
- 1968 H.W. Wilson Company
- 1967 Francis Keppel and Mildred Batchelder
- 1966 Paulist Press
