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Officer John Smith, 2019 Awardee

Category: Impulse Issue 70

Medal presentation in honor of Peter Rosengren

Peter Rosengren

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Colin Cavada

Maura Rosengren, left, accepts the Carnegie Medal posthumously awarded to her husband, Peter Rosengren, from Corinne Pierog, chairperson of the Kane County, Illinois, Board on July 12, 2022, at a …

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Medal presentation in honor of Layne Paul Gravois

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Colin Cavada

Lenny and Kristi Gravois, parents of Layne Paul Gravois, hold his Carnegie Medal as the young hero’s siblings, Addison and Collin, look on during a ceremony at the Bayou Country …

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Medal presentation to Justin Leland Perry and Jason Hadfield

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Colin Cavada

From left, U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman, on June 29, 2022, presents the Carnegie Medal to heroes Justin Leland Perry and Jason Hadfield for their role in the July 25, 2020, …

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Heroic ancestors honored over Independence Day weekend

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Colin Cavada

Although more than 1,000 miles and nearly 100 years apart, the graves of two more Carnegie heroes were marked this past Independence Day weekend (2022) with a bronze medallion honoring …

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“A moment of resonance” — New commission employee joins communications team

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Colin Cavada

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been obsessed with larger-than-life tales of heroism and adventure. I read The Iliad and The Odyssey as a teenager and dreamt of …

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Impulse 70: Board notes

Mark Laskow

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Colin Cavada

And so it goes …There are big changes underway at the Hero Fund. “Good governance,” complete with all associated “best practices,” has caught up with us. In June I completed …

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Commission elects new chair, celebrates emeritus board members

Board Meeting

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Colin Cavada

After serving at the helm of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission for the past 21 years, Chair Mark Laskow stepped down at the Hero Fund Commission’s annual meeting, held June …

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Families remain close decades after traumatic rescue

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Colin Cavada

It’s been nearly 20 years since the accident in which Carnegie heroes Terry R. Pease and Robert K. Barth rescued a woman and her 3-year-old daughter from a burning vehicle …

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Overheard: Impulse 70

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Colin Cavada

We saw the knife, and me and Marvin, wewent quick to take it right away — Jose L. Casanova, Carnegie Medal awardee #10089 I knew that with these old trailers, …

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Friends Remembered: Earl C. Moorman

Earl Moorman

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Colin Cavada

  Earl C. Moorman, 79, of Auburn, Illinois, died Saturday, March 30, 2019, at St. John’s Hospital in Springfield, Illinois. In 2015, Carnegie Hero Ashley Marie Aldridge pulled Moorman from …

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Friends Remembered: Brenda S. Maw

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Colin Cavada

Brenda S. Maw, 70, of Easley, South Carolina, died Saturday, March 5, 2022. In 1982, Maw received the Carnegie Medal for saving a police officer from being shot. Maw, at …

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Friends Remembered: Joseph W. Alderman

Joseph Alderman

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Colin Cavada

  Joseph W. Alderman, 90, of Winchester, Virginia, died Saturday, June 4, 2022, after an arduous battle with Alzheimer’s Disease. In 1966, Alderman, then a 35-year-old engineer-geologist, saved a 16-year-old …

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Friends Remembered: Kristian F. Falkenstein

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Colin Cavada

Kristian F. Falkenstein, 44, of Newtown, Pennsylvania, died Monday, June 27, 2022. In 2017, Falkenstein, then a 39-year-old university development officer, responded to a 32-year-old struggling in the Atlantic Ocean …

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Friends Remembered: Ryan B. Phillips

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Colin Cavada

  Ryan B. Phillips, 55, of St. Petersburg, Florida, died Wednesday, June 29, 2022. In 2011, Phillips, then a 43-year-old construction worker, saved his 3-year-old neighbor from burning in her …

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The Quotable A.C.: Impulse 70

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Jewels Phraner

Let us pity those who haven’t ancestors of whom they can be proud, dukes or duchesses though they be. — An American Four-in-Hand in Britain, 1899

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From the Archives: 1922 hero enters burning building three times to save friend

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Colin Cavada

On the morning of March 2, 1922, an alarm sounded after a fire broke out in the basement of the T.A. Houston department store in Mercer, Pennsylvania. Responding to the …

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Carnegie Medal presentation in honor of Kim A. McGrady

Kim A McGrady

Posted on July 29, 2022 by Colin Cavada

Lynn Deutsch, mayor of Dunwoody, Ga., far right, presents the posthumous Carnegie Medal to the family of Kim A. McGrady. From left, McGrady’s son Colton McGrady, daughter Kayleigh McGrady, and …

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Carnegie Medal presentation in honor of Ricky Lee Sneve

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Colin Cavada

From left, Hero Fund President Eric Zahren presented the posthumous Carnegie Medal for Ricky Lee Sneve to his mother, Nicole Eufers, and father, Chad Sneve, at a ceremony on July …

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Carnegie Medal presentation to Marena L. Kouba

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Jewels Phraner

U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer, left, is pictured with Carnegie Hero Marena L. Kouba and Hero Fund President Eric Zahren, at her award presentation on July 22, 2022, at Fire Lake …

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