New vice chair elected
Nancy L. Rackoff, a member of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission since 2002, was elected vice chair of the board at the Commission’s 112th annual meeting, held in June 2016 …
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Carnegie Hero funds world news
A “mini summit” of representatives from three of Andrew Carnegie’s nine existing hero funds took place in The Hague, Netherlands, in spring 2016, hosted by Boi Jongejan, second from right, …
Heroism of Robert Connelly still resonates through Kiwanis medal
Friday, Sept. 23, 1966, was Kiwanis Kids Day in Chicago, Ill., and its suburbs, and the 105 area clubs of the worldwide service organization were combining manpower to sell peanuts …
Carnegie Medal presentations
One day after Ronaldo J. Freitas of Somerville, Mass., pulled a woman from her crashed and burning car in Somerville on March 20, 2015, John Conley of Barrington, R.I., was emailing the …
From the archives : Grandfather’s legacy: All are called to help each other
By Teresa Hardister Randleman, N.C. On the Sunday prior to July 6, 1956, my grandfather, J. Walter Reeder, stood in …
The Quotable A.C.: Impulse 47
“We are in the presence of universal law and should bow our heads in silence and obey the Judge within, asking nothing, fearing nothing, just doing our duty right along, …
Carnegie Hero visits Commission offices
Carnegie Hero Donald E. Thompson and his family visited the Pittsburgh offices of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission on Monday, June 13, 2016. Mr. Thompson, a Los Angeles police officer, …
June 2016 edition of imPULSE
The June 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 the announcement of the Commission’s new …
Carnegie Hero reunited with man saved from burning
That’s what Edward P. Blomquist, right, told a reporter from The Register-Guard of Eugene, Ore., on being reunited with the man who saved him from a burning car. The man …
Board notes: ‘Small’ moral choices prepare heroes for the big mortal one
By Mark Laskow, Chair Carnegie Hero Fund Commission “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” —From …
Researchers to study heroes DNA for genetics influencing altruistic behaviors
Are there gene variants in humans associated with a greater probability to help others in an emergency? That is, is being a hero in our DNA? The question intrigued three …
Medal awarded posthumously bought at auction by collector
Ivah J. Coles of East St. Louis, Ill., gave his life for a friend on June 8, 1904, within two months of the Hero Fund’s founding in April. He was …
Commission’s new executive director : Heroism never fades, needed now as ever
Concluding a 25-year career with the U.S. Secret Service, most lately as special agent in charge of the Pittsburgh field office, Eric. P. Zahren was elected the Commission’s new Executive …
15:13 Boy hero recalled 100 years after death
A century after his heroic death, George C. Reitmeier’s story lives on at the gravesite of the boy hero in Cumberland, Md. George was just 9 when he died Jan. …
Carnegie Hero’s actions retold in centennial of catastrophic flooding
In mid-July 1916, the remnants of two hurricanes collided over western North Carolina, inundating the mountain region and the western Piedmont with historic rainfall. The result was catastrophic. Landslides wiped …
The Hero Fund in the classroom
Fifth-grade teacher Reed Chambers of Colter Elementary School, Jackson, Wyo., gave a presentation of the Hero Fund to about 200 fourth-graders in April 2016. The students were starting a study …
Account of Native American heroic rescue kept alive by family, historians, researchers
Don Stoll of Good Hart, Mich., is the great-grandson of Joseph Okenotego, one of the first Native Americans to be awarded the Carnegie Medal, and 108 years after his great-grandfather’s …
Friends remembered: Earl L. Zimmerman
Earl L. Zimmerman, 87, of Williamsville, N.Y., died Feb. 26, 2016. As Zimmerman, 23, was pulling the unconscious driver of a wrecked truck from its cab on March 15, 1951, …
Friends remembered: Hershal B. Sargent
Hershal B. Sargent, 87, of Gahanna, Ohio, died Dec. 20, 2015. Sargent was one of five men who were each awarded the medal in 1967 for their heroic actions of …
Carnegie Hero reflects on medal
Awarded the Carnegie Medal in September 2015 for helping to save the pilot of a small crashed and burning airplane in West Jordan, Utah, on Aug. 10, 2014, Kirby Crump …