Friends Remembered: Edsel G. Lorenzen
Edsel G. Lorenzen, 88, of Radcliffe, Iowa, died Nov. 16, 2017, at Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames, Iowa. Lorenzen received the Carnegie Medal in 2006 after, at the age …
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New calligraphy displayed in Pittsburgh’s Koppers Building
As part of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission’s recent milestone of recognizing 10,000 civilian heroes, two pieces of historic art were unveiled at the Power of One event held …
Carnegie hero organizes community Cruise-In and Car Show year after year
James Raymond Garvey, Sr., became a Carnegie hero for pulling a man 50 years his junior from a crashed and burning sport-utility vehicle in November 2016. But the 78-year-old …
Board notes: Memories of heroic acts most vivid with rescuers
By Mark Laskow, Chair Carnegie Hero Fund Commission Once the Carnegie Hero Fund has identified, investigated, and awarded the Carnegie Medal for a heroic act, it works in many ways …
To the Hero Fund
On July 18, 2016, I observed a multiple-vehicle traffic collision on a busy highway that resulted in two vehicles becoming engulfed in flames. Shortly after the collision occurred I was …
Carnegie Hero rebuilds toy company AJ Play
Jacob Scott Jones’s dream was interrupted by life. But when his new routine was violently interrupted, Jones was inspired to resurrect his dream: Building his own toy company. Jones, 39, …
Carnegie Hero William E. Ramirez becomes U.S. citizen
Carnegie Hero William E. Ramirez, 49, of Pembroke Pines, Fla., was among 100 people who became U.S. citizens at an Aug. 17, 2018, ceremony at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration …
3-year-old shares with classmates ‘big penny’ of great-grandfather, Francis Traill Hodges
Grace Helen Hodges Chamberlin poses with her great-grandfather’s Carnegie Medal. Carnegie Hero Francis Traill Hodges was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1932 after he saved a 23-year-old man and attempted …
Separate from Hero Fund, Carnegie pensioned famed heroine
Once celebrated as the “bravest woman in America,” Ida Lewis, the famed lighthouse keeper, earned a multitude of prestigious honors for a series of water rescues in Newport, R.I. And …
Tenets of Hero Fund seeded in Carnegie’s presentation to ‘ boy soprano ‘
Earl Gulick is absent from the roll of Carnegie Heroes, but his bravery as a 14-year-old in a 1902 water rescue once led to the mistaken, widespread belief that he …
Carnegie Medal presentation to Carnegie Hero Jason Alan Doig
Sequim (Wash.) Mayor Dennis Smith, right, presented the Carnegie Medal to Carnegie Hero Jason Alan Doig, left, at a city council meeting held June 25, 2018, in Sequim. Doig, a …
Carnegie Medal presentation to Carnegie Hero Robert Lee Thornton Jr.
Carnegie Hero Robert Lee Thornton Jr. holds the Carnegie Medal on June 28, 2018, after a presentation at Center Line (Mich.) City Hall. Presenting the award, from left, were Center Line …
Carnegie Medal presentation to Carnegie Hero Frank B. Conselman
Rockwall (Texas) Mayor Jim Pruitt, left, and U.S. Rep. John Ratcliffe, right, presented Carnegie Hero Frank B. Conselman, center, the Carnegie Medal at a ceremony held at a Rotary Club …
Carnegie Medal presentation to Carnegie Hero Ross A. Johnson
Colorado Springs (Colo.) Mayor John Suthers, left, presented the Carnegie Medal to Carnegie Hero Ross A. Johnson at a June 26, 2018, city council meeting. Johnson, of Colorado Springs, received …
Carnegie Medal Presentation to Carnegie Hero Joshua K. Watt
Carnegie Hero Joshua K. Watt, center, was presented the Carnegie Medal on June 22, 2018, at the Edmonson County (Ky.) Courthouse. With Watt, from left, are Brownsville (Ky.) police Chief …
Carnegie Medal presentation to Carnegie Hero John Gerard O’Rourke
From left, Milford (Conn.) Mayor Ben Blake stands with Diane O’Rourke and husband, Carnegie Hero John Gerard O’Rourke after presenting the Carnegie Medal to O’Rourke for his rescue of a …
Carnegie Medal presentation to Zachary J. Corey and Karen Marie Mallon
From left, Carnegie Hero Fund President Eric P. Zahren, Carnegie heroes Zachary J. Corey and Karen Marie Mallon, and Taylor Blackmore, from Rep. Jack Bergman’s office, pose after Zahren presented …
Carnegie Medal presentation to Louis Marano and Thomas W. Brown
Carnegie Hero Fund Case Investigator Susan M. Rizza and President Eric P. Zahren, center, traveled to King of Prussia, Pa., in August 2018 to present the Carnegie Medal to, from …
Carnegie Medal Presentation to Carnegie Hero Thomas Julius Sais Jr.
Volunteer presenter Ralph Cash Kaschai, left, presented Carnegie Hero Thomas Julius Sais Jr., center, the Carnegie Medal during a private presentation held July 5, 2018, in Melbourne, Fla. Sais’s wife Donna, …
Carnegie Medal presentation to Carnegie Hero Brian Kunze
Pima County (Ariz.) Sheriff Mark Napier, right, presents the Carnegie Medal to Carnegie Hero Brian Kunze, a sergeant, at an Aug. 7, 2018, Pima County Board of Supervisors meeting. Kunze …