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Officer John Smith, 2019 Awardee

Category: Impulse Issue 65

Daughter discovers Dad’s Carnegie Medal after his death

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Abby Marie

Carnegie Hero Herbert A. Moran was a quiet man, according to his adult daughter, Kristen Solari, of Escalon, California. It wasn’t until after his death that she discovered the Carnegie …

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Carnegie Corp. leader and Hero Fund friend Vartan Gregorian dies at age 87

Vartan Gregorian legacy

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Abby Marie

Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, philanthropist, and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, died Thursday, April 15, 2021. He was 87. Carnegie Corporation announced his unexpected …

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Impulse 65: Board Notes

clues

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Abby Marie

Vartan Gregorian is no longer with us. For a quarter of a century he has been the energetic center of the world of philanthropy created by Andrew Carnegie. The power …

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And the work went on: Carnegie Hero Fund offers look back at 2020

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Abby Marie

Andrew Carnegie would have been well acquainted with the “unprecedented” circumstances facing the Carnegie Hero Fund – and the entire world – in 2020. The first known cases of the …

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Carnegie Medal presentation to Carnegie Hero Edward S. Cyr

Edward S. Cyr

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Abby Marie

Tolland (Connecticut) Town Manager Michael Rosen, left, and council Chairwoman Tammy Nuccio, right, pose with Carnegie Hero Edward S. Cyr after presenting the Carnegie Medal to him at the town …

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Carnegie Medal presentation to Carnegie Hero Donald C. Lowrie

Donald C>

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Abby Marie

Rick Ramsay, the sheriff in Monroe County, Florida, left, and Hero Fund Chairman Mark Laskow, right, presented the Carnegie Medal to Carnegie Hero Donald C. Lowrie during an on-air segment …

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Historical society ‘chronicles’ 15 Carnegie heroes from Smith County, Texas

Chronicles

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Abby Marie

Historian Carol Kehl knows there are exactly 15 Carnegie heroes who hailed from Smith County, Texas, at the time of their heroic acts. She also knows intimate details about their …

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Carnegie Medal presentation to Carnegie Hero Pierre Joseph Gibbons

Gibbons presentation

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Abby Marie

Carnegie Hero Pierre Joseph Gibbons, center, stands with his daughter, Taylor Gibbons, left, and son, Jeremiah Gibbons, a Baltimore firefighter, right, after receiving the Carnegie Medal for heroism. Gibbons risked …

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First Lady column touches family of Carnegie hero

First Lady column on Carnegie hero

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Abby Marie

U.S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt wrote more than 8,500 columns that appeared in newspapers around the country from 1935 to 1962. Entitled “My Day,” Roosevelt wrote about whom she met, …

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Carnegie Medal presentation to Carnegie Hero Seth Robert Bond

Seth Robert Bond

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Abby Marie

Carnegie Hero Seth Robert Bond stands with Tallmadge, Ohio, Mayor David G. Kline after Kline presented the Carnegie Medal to Bond on March 2, 2021, at the mayor’s office. Bond …

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Carnegie Medal presentation to Carnegie Hero Leslie E. Shaffer

Shaffer Presentation

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Abby Marie

Carnegie Hero Fund Commission President Eric Zahren, left, presents the Carnegie Medal to Leslie E. Shaffer at a park gazebo in Akron, Ohio, on March 11, 2021. After a private …

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Friends remembered: James R. Seitz

James R. Seitz

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Abby Marie

James R. Seitz, 51, of Denver, North Carolina, died Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020, after a month-long battle with pneumonia and COVID-19. Seitz received the Carnegie Medal in 2001 for the …

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Friends remembered: James Vernon

James Vernon

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Abby Marie

James Vernon, 81, of Morton, Illinois died Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Illinois. Vernon was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 2017 for saving …

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Friends remembered: Ricky Don Bailey

Ricky Don Bailey

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Abby Marie

Ricky Don Bailey, 63, died Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, at his Clinton, Louisiana, home  surrounded by family. His death came after a long struggle with dementia. When Bailey was 31 …

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Friends remembered: Ronald Larsen

Ronald Larsen

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Abby Marie

Ronald Larsen, 81, of Elko, Nevada, died Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. When Larsen was 57, he rescued 3-year-old Nicholas R. Nolte  from burning in his family’s one-story home on Jan. …

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From the Archives: Circle-K clerk saves toddler in runaway truck

Billie Jean Power

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Abby Marie

On the warm evening of May 19, 1967, 23-year-old mother Toni Diffie fastened her 3-year-old daughter Ginger Lee into a canvas car seat that hung from the backrest of the …

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For the greater love of Rudell Stitch

For greater love of Rudell Stitch

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Abby Marie

By Glen Sharp NYfights.com Rudell Stitch died on a Sunday – June 5, 1960 – the day before he was to sign for a rematch with the No. 1-ranked welterweight …

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The Quotable: Impulse 65

Vartan Gregorian

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Abby Marie

Nowadays, as I sit in my office, I am positioned under Carnegie’s portrait, and cannot help but reflect, with some awe, on the responsibility of following in the footsteps of …

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