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. …
Howard R. Giles II, 73, of Henderson, Nev., died June 28, 2015. Giles was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1955 in recognition of his actions of Aug. 26, 1954, by …
By Mark Laskow, Chair Carnegie Hero Fund Commission Little did I suspect when I joined the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission in 1992 that I would one day travel to Norway …
Clinton D. Blackburn of Winchester, Ky., and McKenzie McKay Guffey of Gainesboro, Tenn., are both truck drivers, were both on the road when they effected extraordinary acts of lifesaving within …
When A. James Dyess—“Jimmie”—was an undergraduate at Clemson (S.C.) Agricultural College, now Clemson University, he helped to save a woman from drowning in the Atlantic Ocean off Sullivans Island, S.C. …
A Carnegie Medal presentation was held Aug. 16 in Eagan, Minn., in which Ryan Thomas Nelson received the award from Carnegie Medal awardee John P. Williams of LaCrosse, Wis., one of the …
By Susan Winlow, Features Editor Daily Republic, Fairfield, Calif. Perry Hookey relives the horrific morning of Jan. 10, 2013, every morning he drives to work as a paramedic at Medic …
In a letter to his daughter 67 years later, Carnegie Medal awardee George Russell Blair recalled his dramatic rescue of a 9-year-old boy from the icy waters of Cazenovia Lake …
A bronze medallion cast in the likeness of the Carnegie Medal has been affixed to the memorial marking the grave of Carnegie Medal awardee Anthony Montville in Riverside Cemetery, Cleveland, …
By Mark Laskow, Chair Carnegie Hero Fund Commission imPULSE, which you are reading at this very moment, has had an interesting effect on the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. Before the …
Thumbs Up Joshua A. Peterson, right, of Brookings, Ore., owes his life to Carnegie Medal awardee Terry Brown, a deputy with the Curry County, Ore., Sheriff’s Department. On June 2 last …
By Roberta Scholz, Edmonds, Wash. On Jan. 20, 2014, our son, Philip Erich Scholz, 35, died tragically while attempting to rescue a man who was trying to commit suicide by …
Carnegie Medal awardee John Nash Hale, left, of Toms River, N.J., joined the Hero Fund’s director of external affairs, Douglas R. Chambers, for an assembly at Rae Kushner Yeshiva High …
Four recently awarded heroes were honored in front of family members and community leaders at the Schaumburg, Ill., April 14 Village Meeting. Tyler T. Fredrickson, 15, Matthew I. Grammas, 15, Graham W. Fath, 12, …
Returning home from work on February 19, 2013, Paul W. Mongiello, a 57-year-old insurance executive from Overland Park, Kan., was stopped in traffic in Kansas City, Mo., when a massive …
Frederick J. Levesque, Jr., 52, a retired corrections administrator from Stafford Springs, Conn., rescued Kerra R. Colgan, 7, from her family’s burning apartment in Somers, Conn., on Dec. 4, 2013. …
On February 20, three recently awarded heroes involved in two different rescues came together to be honored in front of family members and a large number of California Highway Patrol …
Through a family research project, educator Phillip N. Frazier, 41, of Washington, D.C., learned that his great-great-grandfather Ansel James was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1945, when, on Feb. 16, …
