Carnegie Medal Presentation to Judy Arroyo
Long Beach City Manager Daniel Creighton, right, presented police officer Judy Arroyo with the Carnegie Medal for Heroism at a June 4 private ceremony held at the City of Long …
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Carnegie Medal Presentation to Thomas Elbrecht
Unified Fire Chief Dominic Burchett, right, presented the Carnegie Medal to firefighter Thomas Elbrecht at a private ceremony held on June 25 at the Unified Fire Authority station in …
Carnegie Medal Presentation to Robert J. Selfridge III
Chief Fred Grimste of the Barnegat Light (New Jersey) Volunteer Fire Company presented the Carnegie Medal to Robert J. Selfridge III at a ceremony held June 27 at his fire …
Mesa man’s memorial
By Carol Hiatt//The Norwood Post Editor’s note: This story first appeared in the Oct. 17 edition of The Norwood Post and is about Carnegie Hero Edward Jack Miller who lived …
The Quotable A.C.: Impulse 77
“Whenever heroism is displayed by man or woman in saving a human life, the Fund applies” — Andrew Carnegie, Hero Fund Deed of Trust, 1904
Friends Remembered: Jim Roddey
Dear friend of the Hero Fund, Jim Roddey, 91, died in Pittsburgh on Thursday, March 7, 2024. Roddey was born in 1933 in Asheville, North Carolina. Through his weekly radio …
Friends Remembered: Norman C. Van Arsdalen
Carnegie Hero Norman C. Van Arsdalen, 96, died on Friday March 29, 2024, at a senior living facility in Haddonfield, New Jersey. Seventy years earlier, Van Arsdalen saved teens from …
Friends Remembered: Harry A. Oiler Jr.
Carnegie Hero Harry A. Oiler Jr., 81, of Parkersburg, West Virginia, died Monday, March 18, 2024, in Florida. He was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1966 after rescuing a woman …
Friends Remembered: Robert D. Parr
Carnegie Hero Robert D. Parr, 83, died at his home in Knightsville, Indiana, on Thursday, March 20, 2024. Parr received the Carnegie Medal after helping save a man from suffocation …
Friends Remembered: Lewis Herbert Chase
Carnegie Hero Lewis Herbert Chase, 93, died Friday, February 16, 2024. He was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1981. On May 22, 198, following an accident with a train, a …
Friends Remembered: John G. Patrick
Carnegie Hero John G. Patrick, 84, died Saturday, February 17, 2024, at University Hospital of Cleveland. Patrick received the Carnegie Medal for Heroism in 1962. At the age of 21, …
Dick Tracy comic strip features Carnegie Hero
Truro (Nova Scotia) Police Officer Bruce J. Lake was featured in the April 14 edition of the police detective Dick Tracy comic strip, a syndicated comic strip that has been …
Overheard: Impulse 77
There were children that needed assistance. He went without hesitation into the water and saved these children. Unfortunately, his life was not saved. — Best friend of Peter Rosengren, Carnegie …
1967: Two teens save man from attacking bear in remote Idaho forest
Byrle G. Walker, a 34-year-old teacher from Idaho Falls, Idaho, was working part-time for the U.S. Forest Service, when he set out to inspect trees and do insect control work …
North Carolina Governor presents ‘Order of the Long Leaf Pine’ to Carnegie Hero
High Point (North Carolina) Community Foundation President, Paul J. Lessard, received the Order of the Long Leaf Pine at the foundation’s Dec. 12 board meeting. The Order of the Long …
Newest case investigator finds heroes an antidote to negativity
I came to the Hero Fund as a case investigator in November 2023 after a 35-year career as a newspaper reporter, the last 20 of which I spent covering the …
Seneca Falls’ annual celebration of Carnegie hero gathers community
Every year the residents of Seneca Falls, New York, — a 6,000-person hamlet at the north end of Seneca Lake, the largest of the finger lakes — gather to celebrate …
Impulse 77: Board Notes
Most of these articles focus on the Carnegie heroes themselves, on the risks they take, and on the price they often pay for their heroic acts. That shouldn’t surprise anyone. …
First female Hero Fund investigator retires after 34 years
Susan M. Rizza became the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission’s first female case investigator in August 1989. Rizza grew up in Cheswick, Pa., near the site of the Harwick Mine Disaster. …
Hero Fund celebrates 120 years
The Carnegie Hero Fund turned 120 on April 15. At 3:30 p.m. on that date in 1904, Hero Fund President Charles L. Taylor called the inaugural meeting of the Hero …