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Officer John Smith, 2019 Awardee

Category: imPULSE Issue 46

Carnegie Hero reunited with man saved from burning

Carnegie Hero reunited

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

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 …

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Board notes: ‘Small’ moral choices prepare heroes for the big mortal one

departing president

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

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 …

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Researchers to study heroes DNA for genetics influencing altruistic behaviors

genetics influencing altruistic behaviors

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

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 …

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Medal awarded posthumously bought at auction by collector

auction

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

 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 …

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Commission’s new executive director : Heroism never fades, needed now as ever

Commission's new executive director

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

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 …

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15:13 Boy hero recalled 100 years after death

boy hero

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

  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. …

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Carnegie Hero’s actions retold in centennial of catastrophic flooding

centennial of catastrophic flooding

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

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 …

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The Hero Fund in the classroom

hero fund in the classroom

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

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 …

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Account of Native American heroic rescue kept alive by family, historians, researchers

native american heroic rescue

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

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 …

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Friends remembered: Earl L. Zimmerman

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Jewels Phraner

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, …

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Friends remembered: Hershal B. Sargent

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Jewels Phraner

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 …

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Carnegie Hero reflects on medal

hero reflects on medal

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

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 …

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Hometown Hero

hometown hero

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Shown helping to install his plaque on the “Wall of Honor” at Janesville (Wis.) High School, 2008 Carnegie Medal awardee Kermit R. Kubitz was cited by his alma mater in …

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From the archives: Legacy of hero strong through 112 years

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

By Margaretmary McCann and William Norbert Our relative, Thomas H. McCann of South Portland, Maine, was the sixth recipient of the Carnegie Medal and the first Mainer to be honored.  If …

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Friends remembered: Keith W. Daniels

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Kenneth W. Daniels, 81, of Havelock, N.C., died March 29, 2016.  He and a co-rescuer were each awarded a Carnegie Medal in 1961 for saving a crewman who was trapped …

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The Quotable A.C.: Impulse 46

Dear Mr. Carnegie

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

“Man was not created with an instinct for his own degradation, but from the lower he had risen to the higher forms.  Nor is there any conceivable end to his …

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Carnegie Medal presented to Matthew L. Tranel and Cory Alan Simonson

Posted on March 23, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Carnegie Medal volunteer presenter John P. Williams presented two Carnegie Medals Tuesday March 22, 2016, at a ceremony held at the Maquoketa (Iowa) Volunteer Fire Department.  Williams is also a Carnegie …

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Carnegie Medal presented to Clifford A. Wright

carnegie medal presented

Posted on March 23, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Carnegie Hero Clifford A. Wright, who rescued two people from a submerging vehicle, was presented the Carnegie Medal on March 20, 2016, at a private presentation held in Sarasota, Fla. …

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Carnegie Medal presentation to Carnegie Hero Joel Kevin Kyle, Jr.

Carnegie Medal presented to Carnegie Hero Joel Kevin Kyle, Jr.

Posted on March 10, 2016 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Carnegie Hero Joel Kevin Kyle, Jr., was presented with the Carnegie Medal at a private ceremony held February 5, 2016 in Altoona, Pa. Douglas R. Chambers, director of external affairs …

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