2015 Carnegie Medal awardee latest to receive Coast Guard Gold Medal
In 2015, Terry Brown of Dallas, Ore., was awarded the Carnegie Medal for his actions of June 2, 2014, by which he helped to save a teenage boy from drowning …
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In 2015, Terry Brown of Dallas, Ore., was awarded the Carnegie Medal for his actions of June 2, 2014, by which he helped to save a teenage boy from drowning …
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Douglas R. Chambers, left, the Hero Fund’s director of external affairs, made his last medal presentation in late June 2016 and retired from the organization a week later. He is …
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Long and faithful service by two members of the Commission was recognized at its 112th annual meeting in June 2016. Board chair Mark Laskow, shown at left in both photos, …
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By Kenneth W. Mathews, Billerica, Mass. Carnegie Medal awardee #4836 When I was about 10 years old, I purchased four goldfish at the W.T. Grant store in Nashua, N.H. I …
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Nancy L. Rackoff, a member of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission since 2002, was elected vice chair of the board at the Commission’s 112th annual meeting, held in June 2016 …
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A “mini summit” of representatives from three of Andrew Carnegie’s nine existing hero funds took place in The Hague, Netherlands, in spring 2016, hosted by Boi Jongejan, second from right, …
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Friday, Sept. 23, 1966, was Kiwanis Kids Day in Chicago, Ill., and its suburbs, and the 105 area clubs of the worldwide service organization were combining manpower to sell peanuts …
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One day after Ronaldo J. Freitas of Somerville, Mass., pulled a woman from her crashed and burning car in Somerville on March 20, 2015, John Conley of Barrington, R.I., was emailing the …
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By Teresa Hardister Randleman, N.C. On the Sunday prior to July 6, 1956, my grandfather, J. Walter Reeder, stood in …
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“We are in the presence of universal law and should bow our heads in silence and obey the Judge within, asking nothing, fearing nothing, just doing our duty right along, …
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Carnegie Hero Donald E. Thompson and his family visited the Pittsburgh offices of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission on Monday, June 13, 2016. Mr. Thompson, a Los Angeles police officer, …
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The June 2016 edition of imPULSE, the Commission’s quarterly newsletter, can be read online. This issue includes resumes of the latest awardees’ heroic acts, as well as the announcement of the Commission’s new …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 …