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Officer John Smith, 2019 Awardee

Category: Impulse issue 61

Friends Remembered: Dianne R. McKenzie

Dianne R. McKenzie

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Jewels Phraner

Dianne R. (Seifert) McKenzie, 81, of Baldwin, Pa., died Sunday, March 22, 2020. McKenzie was born on June 8, 1938, to the late William and Alvina Seifert of Pittsburgh, Pa. …

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Friends Remembered: Jarrett M. Cherok

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Jewels Phraner

Jarrett M. Cherok, 38, of San Angelo, Texas, died Friday, Jan. 10, 2020. In 2006, Cherok was named a Carnegie hero for his June 8, 2005, rescue of a 47-year-old …

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2019 in review: 73 awards made, more than $786K dispersed in grants

2019 in review

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Carnegie Hero Fund

2019 was a relatively quiet year for the Hero Fund compared to the previous year’s excitement of our 10,000th medal awarded. But 2019 was nonetheless a landmark year as the …

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Board Notes: Global pandemic requires everyone to sacrifice

without disaster

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Carnegie Hero Fund

“You know, I’d better write my Impulse article now, before I catch this damned virus.” I’ve been writing this quarterly column since 2007, or thereabouts, but this is the first …

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Carnegie hero memorializes act with forearm tattoo

Tattoo memorializes act

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Carnegie Hero Fund

On the outside of Julie K. Callaghan’s forearm, just above her wrist, a reminder in black ink spells out “50 mph” in slanted script with an arrow extending from the …

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Norfolk Southern railroad features Carnegie hero during Black History Month

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Carnegie Hero Fund

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Hero laid to rest in Indonesia, grave in family plot marked with Carnegie medallion

Carnegie gravemarker Indonesia

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Carnegie Hero Fund

A Carnegie hero laid to rest in Indonesia now has a grave marker denoting the heroism he exhibited nearly 60 years before his death. “Few natives in this population have …

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Symposium named for Carnegie hero celebrates 10 years

hero symposium

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Carnegie Hero Fund

This year marked 10 years since the inaugural Jimmie Dyess Symposium, held annually each January in Augusta, Ga., to honor Carnegie Hero A. James (“Jimmie”) Dyess and his life of …

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Carnegie Medal Presentation to Carnegie Hero Danny Lee Tiger

Carnegie Hero Danny Lee Tiger

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, right, presented the Carnegie Medal to Danny Lee Tiger, of Ardmore, Okla., in a Feb. 11, 2020, ceremony in Oklahoma City. On June 26, 2019, when …

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Carnegie Medal Presentation to Carnegie Hero Michael Benjamin James

Carnegie Hero Michael Benjamin James

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Railroad signal maintainer Michael Benjamin James, center, celebrated with his mother, Janet Shuler, left, and wife, Cortney Skelding, right, after he received the Carnegie Medal from Michael Melham, mayor of …

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Carnegie Medal Presentation to widow of Carnegie Hero David Covington

Carnegie Hero David Covington

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Photo by William R. Toler/Richmond (N.C.) Observer. Rockingham (N.C.) Mayor Steve Morris, left, presents the Carnegie Medal awarded to the late David Covington to his widow, Jane, center, and nephew, …

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Carnegie Medal Presentation to Carnegie Hero Darren M. Smith

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Hero Fund Commission members A.H. Burchfield III, left, and Dan D. Sandman, right, presented Carnegie Hero Darren M. Smith, center, with the Carnegie Medal Jan. 17, 2020, in Vero Beach, …

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Accident on 1914 film set spurs camera man to attempt rescue of actress

Camera man attempts rescue

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Carnegie Hero Fund

It wasn’t supposed to be a dramatic scene. For a movie depicting gun smuggling at the U.S. border with Mexico, this sequence simply was to show a bandit’s daughter crossing …

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Exceptional Graduates: Carnegie Hero Fund scholar to pursue master’s degree in Christian counseling

Exceptional Graduates 61

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Hannah Radke Carnegie Hero Fund Scholar Hannah Radke, 22, will graduate this spring from Mount Vernon Nazarene University, in Mount Vernon, Ohio. “I can say with absolute certainty, that without …

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Friends Remembered: Michael Robert Keyser

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Michael Robert Keyser, 49, of Hesperia, Calif., died Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020, after he stopped to help a truck driver whose tractor-trailer overturned on Interstate 15. Keyser was killed in …

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Rescue at the swamp: birthday celebrations turn near-deadly

Swamp rescue

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Carnegie Hero Fund

On May 1, 1962, the weather was overcast in Mason County, Wash. Will H. Simpson had just finished up work as a plywood machine operator around 4 p.m. It was …

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The Quotable A.C.: Impulse 61

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Carnegie Hero Fund

No action more heroic than that of doctors and nurses volunteering their services in the case of an epidemic. — 1904 Carnegie Hero Fund Commission Deed of Trust.

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Overheard: Impulse 61

overheard 61

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Carnegie Hero Fund

I’m a big girl. I’m a strong woman. It didn’t matter at the time. — Vickie Tillman, Carnegie Medal awardee #10000, referencing bruises she sustained while helping rescue a police …

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Hero Fund response to COVID-19

March awardees

Posted on March 24, 2020 by Carnegie Hero Fund

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has impacted all of us across the globe, and the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission is no exception. First and foremost our concern is for the health …

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