Representatives from six of the hero funds established by Andrew Carnegie more than a century ago met in The Hague, Netherlands, in early October 2016. Nine of the 11 original …
Ashley Marie Aldridge lives near a passenger rail track in Auburn, Ill., and on Sept. 15 last year saw a 75-year-old man attempting to negotiate a track crossing in his …
Larry J. Koos, left, of La Motte, Iowa, is a Jackson County, Iowa, supervisor, and it was at a supervisors meeting on Sept. 9, 2014, that he charged after a …
Neil Jones, Sr., right, of Binghamton, N.Y., was at his job as a hospital valet supervisor when he helped to save a Johnson City, N.Y., police officer from an armed …
Andrew Baugh, second from left, of Mason City, Ill., was presented his Carnegie Medal in late August 2016 at the home of the young man he rescued, Chase W. McDermand, …
Calindo C. Fletcher Jr. played football for Buckhorn High School, New Market, Ala., and it was on the same football field that his family was presented his Carnegie Medal, awarded posthumously, …
By contemporary accounts, the visit of Andrew Carnegie and his wife, Louise, and daughter, Margaret, to Santa Cruz, Calif., on March 11, 1910, was thoroughly enjoyed by both the …
Late in the morning on June 15, 1966, Donald Noel Harwood made the spur-of-the-moment decision that cost him his life as he struggled to save another’s. After his supervisor at …
The September 2016 edition of imPULSE, the Commission’s quarterly newsletter, can be read online. This issue includes resumes of the latest awardees’ heroic acts, as well as articles about Carnegie Heroes who have …
When both of Pittsburgh’s daily newspapers carried a photo of Donald E. Thompson on their front pages last May 17, 2015, it was like seeing an old friend. Thompson was …
By Mark Laskow, Chair Carnegie Hero Fund Commission “Judge not, lest you be judged.” —Matthew 7:1 That is how Jesus put it. In more modern terms, someone accused of questionable …
Carnegie Hero Connor M. Bystrom of Holmes Beach, Fla., celebrated his veterinary school graduation in June 2016 with his parents, William and Jeannie Holmes Bystrom. Cited by the Hero Fund in …
Andrew Carnegie believed that those who risk their lives to save others are to be recognized as the heroes of civilization, in contrast to “the heroes of barbarism,” who main …
Following his award of the Carnegie Medal in 2014, Christopher Jon Ihle of Huxley, Iowa, went through something of a post-rescue career change, resulting in his new business, My Main …
Waymon L. Halsell, 87, of Bakersfield, Calif., died July 11. He was awarded the medal in 1960 in recognition of his helping to save a man from suffocation after a …
Two young men from Southern California who met as strangers when they teamed up to save victims of a freeway crash 34 years ago died recently, within a period of …
By Van Craddock Longview, Texas More than 100 years ago, John R. Hoffmann was known for his heroic efforts on the Longview Cannibals’ minor league baseball team. An East Texas …
Carnegie Hero Horatio G. Pino of Virginia Beach, Va., and Kayla McDaniel first met five minutes after midnight on April 19, 2001. Pino, then 34, was a deputy with the …
Graves of Carnegie Medal awardees in Connecticut and Ontario have been designated with a bronze marker cast in the likeness of the medal. The markers are made available by the …
In 2015, Terry Brown of Dallas, Ore., was awarded the Carnegie Medal for his actions of June 2, 2014, by which he helped to save a teenage boy from drowning …
