Alexander James Campbell was awarded the Carnegie Medal after making a heroic drowning rescue nearly a century ago, and his actions continue to receive accolades by his family and the Mt. …
In Carnegie Hero Funds World News, Carnegie’s hero fund in the Netherlands—Stichting Carnegie Heldenfonds—is hoping to build a tradition with its first annual “heroes day,” held Oct. 7, 2015, in …
Aug. 12, 1955: Alarms sounded at about 6 p.m. in North Bay Village, a summer resort town situated on the western coast of the Chesapeake Bay near Fairhaven, Md. Volunteer …
“As I grow older, I play less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” Return to imPULSE index. See PDF of this issue.
The following remarks were made by Commission member Linda Thorell Hills of Littleton, Colo., during the placement of a memorial wreath on the grave of her great-grandparents, Andrew and Louise …
Carnegie awardee Ronald LaRue was one of 22 individuals recently named as a Carnegie Hero in the Commission’s third award announcement of 2015. LaRue died attempting to save his 5-year-old grandson, …
Andrew Carnegie’s Hero Fund Commission is administered carefully to ensure its existence into perpetuity, and a visitor to the Commission’s 111th annual meeting on June 25, 2015 was a symbol …
Not only were Ryan Thomas Nelson of Eagan, Minn., and Matthew J. Heisler of Lakeville, Minn., roommates at the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks, they were best friends …
Carnegie Medal awardee Gale O. Shreffler of Plum, Pa., who died May 31, 2014, at 90, was a certified hero in both war and peace. He compiled an impressive record …
Philip Bevacqua, 85, of Totowa, N.J., died May 17, 2015. Awarded the Carnegie Medal at age 77 in 2008, Bevacqua was a police captain for the Paterson, N.J., Police Department, …
Carnegie Medal awardee Charles T. Carbonell, Sr., of Tampa, Fla., is one of only five recipients of the Carnegie Medal to have been awarded the medal twice, and that fact …
By Janet D. Hattaway Shreveport, La. I am the proud mother of a man, Matthew Ray Hattaway, who has been recognized by the Hero Fund for his outstanding act of …
Summer visitors to the Hero Fund’s offices included Carnegie medal awardee Clerc Higgins Cooper, 22, of New Orleans, who was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 2009 for a heroic rescue …
By Brian R. Riches School of Social Science, Policy & Evaluation Claremont (Calif.) Graduate University Anyone can be a hero. A civilian who rescues another person from a fire at …
Several awardees of the Carnegie Medal volunteer their services for medal presentations to newly named awardees. Two such presentations were made in May 2015 to awardees announced earlier this year. Fire …
Long service recognized The longest-serving member of the Hero Fund Commission staff, Myrna J. Braun, was honored at the Commission’s 111th annual meeting on June 25, 2015 with a certificate …
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission has long benefited from a relationship with the United States Steel Corporation, the largest integrated steel producer headquartered in the U.S. Both entities share in …
By Chris Foreman, Case Investigator Carnegie Hero Fund Commission Some days, it seems like there is no shortage of heroes in the headlines. In recent weeks, I’ve spotted news websites …
Sally Laubin of South Deerfield, Mass., recently honored the memory of her great-grandfather, John Morris, with the placement of a bronze grave marker on his headstone at Mt. St. Benedict’s …
Paul H. Olson, 92, of Anoka, Minn., died June 9, 2015. At age 38 on March 13, 1961, he saved a woman from drowning in the Mississippi River at Minneapolis. …
