Friends Remembered: Impulse No.83
Friends Remembered is a collection of tributes to Carnegie heroes, beneficiaries, and others we have lost since the last edition of Impulse. They are listed chronologically by date of passing. …
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Officer John Smith,
2019 Awardee
Category: Impulse Issue 83
Overheard: Impulse 83
To be honest with you, I think that most people would have done this. – Lewis A. Medina, Carnegie Hero #10302 I wasn’t thinking about myself at all. I was …
1982: Salesman saves “Raging Bull” actress from stalker
On a street outside her apartment in West Hollywood, California, Theresa Saldana sensed that bystanders were near, but nobody was coming closer to help her despite her screams. On …
Hero Fund president celebrates 10 years as Hero Fund board member
Hero Fund Chair Thomas L. Wentling Jr., right, unfurls a resolution for Hero Fund President Eric P. Zahren, left, to celebrate his 10-year-milestone anniversary as a Hero Fund board member. …
Impulse 83: Board Notes
I hope you won’t consider me disloyal to our great Carnegie heroes if I tell you I do sometimes think about other kinds of heroism – the kind that does …
Las Vegas Hero Fund talk includes local Carnegie hero
No sooner had Carnegie Hero Fund Commission Chair Thomas L. Wentling Jr. retired from a 48-year career as a financial advisor, his cousin beckoned him to Las Vegas to talk …
Carnegie Hero among rescuers in 1913 Bathhouse tragedy
By Ron Suduiko In 1848, plans for Lawrence, Massachusetts, envisioned it as a ‘new industrial city,’ one that would attract labor with offers of good jobs, reasonable pay, good housing, …