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Officer John Smith, 2019 Awardee

Category: imPULSE Issue 45

2015 in review: Hero Fund attested to ‘genuine article’ of modern heroism

modern heroism

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

By Sybil P. Veeder, Ph.D., Chair, Executive Committee Carnegie Hero Fund Commission When six men, including three Americans, subdued an armed assailant aboard a Paris-bound train in August 2015, The …

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Board notes: Actions of heroes ultimate in our democratic values

departing president

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

By Mark Laskow, Chair Carnegie Hero Fund Commission Who needs these heroes, the men and women who earned the Carnegie Medal?  Those they rescued did, of course, but isn’t the …

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Monument of hero restored

monument of hero restored

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

With some investigating by historian Ken Johnson of Langley, B.C., initiative by dedicated cemetery leadhand Shawn Flint of Thunder Bay, Ont., elbow grease by Lakehead Monument Ltd. of Thunder Bay, …

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Hometown puts Carnegie Medal awardee in large mural depicting notable natives

Carnegie Medal awardee in large mural

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Decades after Nazareth A. Tomasetti rescued a man from a cave-in during a street-excavation project, his portrait adorns a five-story-tall building in his longtime home of Pittston, Pa.  Tomasetti, a …

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Measure of his heart: Carnegie Hero writes book

hero writes book

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Carnegie Medal recipient and Lighthouse Project founder Paul J. Lessard has recently turned his pen toward the subject of long-time friend and mentor, Yogi Yarborough, in his latest book, A …

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Stories of heroes continue past their acts, as each life touches so many others

stories of heroes

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

By Traci E. Langston Phoenix, Ariz. Noah V. Langston saved Delilah E. Arnold from drowning, Sperry, Oklahoma, June 2, 1922.  While wading and trying to swim in Bird Creek, Delilah, …

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Friends remembered: Joseph R. Sowers

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Jewels Phraner

Joseph R. Sowers, 96, of Kingston, Tenn., died Dec. 8, 2015.  At age 23 in 1942, Sowers, then an automobile mechanic, saved an 8-year-old boy from drowning in the flooded …

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Friends remembered: Marvin E. Panch

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Jewels Phraner

Marvin E. Panch, 89, of Port Orange, Fla., died Dec. 31, 2015.  One of NASCAR’s 50 Greatest Drivers, Panch was involved in a fiery crash at Daytona International Speedway on …

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Radio host queries awardees: What does it mean to be heroic?

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

By Mike Slater Radio Station KFMB, San Diego, Calif. We’re all so confused about what’s right and wrong, what we value, and what we consider heroic and what we consider …

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Carnegie Hero Lincoln J. Partridge died for another

Carnegie Hero Lincoln J. Partridge

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Carnegie Hero Lincoln J. Partridge was 43 and the father of five when he lost his life in a tragic accident on Nov. 23, 1907.  His death came just after …

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Stichting Carnegie Heldenfonds secretary retiring

stichting carnegie heldenfonds

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Hans W. de Vries, 12-year secretary of Stichting Carnegie Heldenfonds—the hero fund of the Netherlands—retired at the end of 2015.  He started work for the Dutch fund in 2004 and …

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Friends remembered: Elizabeth L. Darlington

friends remembered

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Elizabeth L. Darlington, 87, of Columbia, S.C., died Jan. 2, 2016.  She was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 2006 for her actions of Oct. 12, 2005, by which she—at age …

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Carnegie Medal presentations

carnegie medal presentations

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Liane Heather Wood, an insurance broker; her husband, Daniel Marvin Wood, a pastor; Clifford W. J. Peterson, a police constable; and Isaac G. Pinsonneault, a college student (from left, above), …

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From the archives: U.S. hero made German prisoner

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

If you do good, good things will come to you too. That’s the conclusion of Gudrun Laux-Vincq of Mezos, France, whose father, Karl J. Laux, was awarded the Carnegie Medal …

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The Quotable A.C.: Impulse 45

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

“This is man’s work on earth, one of development toward the more perfect day; nothing yet finished, but all growing better through his strenuous exertions.  “Rest and be thankful” is …

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Carnegie Medal presentation to 4 Carnegie Heroes

Carnegie Medal presentation

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Recently, Carnegie Hero Fund Commission Board Member Nathalie Lemieux and Director of External Affairs Douglas R. Chambers conducted a Carnegie Medal presentation to four Carnegie Heroes: Isaac G. Pinsonneault, Liane Heather …

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