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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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), …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
