Members of the Commission

Numbering 21, members of the Commission serve in a volunteer capacity. They are the successors to the first members of the board, who were personally chosen by Andrew Carnegie on his establishment of the Hero Fund in 1904. Members of the staff administer the day-to-day operations of the Fund, including the investigation of hundreds of heroic acts annually.

A. H. Burchfield III
Elizabeth H. Genter
Thomas J. Hilliard, Jr.
David McL. Hillman
Peter J. Lambrou
Linda T. Hills
Mark Laskow
Christopher R. McCrady
Priscilla J. McCrady
Ann M. McGuinn
Nancy L. Rackoff
Frank Brooks Robinson

Dan D. Sandman
Kenneth G. Sawyer
Arthur M. Scully, Jr.
William P. Snyder III
Sybil P. Veeder
James M. Walton
Thomas L. Wentling, Jr.
Alfred W. Wishart, Jr.
Carol A. Word

   
OFFICERS HONORARY MEMBERS
   
President: Mark Laskow
Vice President: Priscilla J. McCrady
Secretary: Walter F. Rutkowski
Treasurer: James M. Walton
E. Bayley Buchanan
Robert W. Off
J. Evans Rose, Jr.
   
STAFF  
   
Executive Director: Walter F. Rutkowski
Director of External Affairs: Douglas R. Chambers
Investigations Manager: Jeffrey A. Dooley
Case Investigators: Marlin Ross
Susan L. Marcy
Melissa A. McLaughlin
Administrative Assistants: Myrna J. Braun
Gloria A. Barber
Deonna M. Dreher

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