Hero Fund commits to honor COVID-19 heroes
The Hero Fund will create a special committee to look at ways to recognize and honor those who have willingly placed themselves in harm’s way to care for those afflicted …
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I turned from news cameraman into a rescuer, basically. — Austin Raishbrook, Carnegie Medal awardee #9992 At that point, I had to do something. I couldn’t wait any longer. She …
Suffragist, 1 of 3 rescuers in 1915 water case, wanted focus on drowned painter
After Lucy G. Branham became known as a suffragist and agitator for other political causes, news reports commonly cited her as a Carnegie hero when she stumped across the country. …
Friends remembered: Gerald A. LaMonica
Gerald A. LaMonica, 85, of Dearborn Heights, Mich., died Tuesday, April 28, 2020. Ten years earlier, LaMonica was awarded the Carnegie Medal for saving a 10-year-old girl from attacking dogs …
From the Archives: Hiking trip gone awry — 1965 rappelling rescue takes hours
On the evening of July 7, 1965, 18-year-old Clayton E. Toensing was descending the steep face of a 430-foot cliff with two younger teenagers, when he lost his footing, fell …
Friends Remembered: Dianne R. McKenzie
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. …
Friends Remembered: Jarrett M. Cherok
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 …
2019 in review: 73 awards made, more than $786K dispersed in grants
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 …
Board Notes: Global pandemic requires everyone to sacrifice
Mark Laskow, Board Chair, Carnegie Hero Fund Commission “You know, I’d better write my Impulse article now, before I catch this damned virus.” I’ve been writing this quarterly column since …
Carnegie hero memorializes act with forearm tattoo
Julie K. Callaghan shows the tattoo she commissioned that memorializes the heroic act in which she gravely injured her hand attempting to save a man in a wheelchair from being …
Norfolk Southern railroad features Carnegie hero during Black History Month
Hero laid to rest in Indonesia, grave in family plot marked with Carnegie medallion
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 …
Symposium named for Carnegie hero celebrates 10 years
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 …
Carnegie Medal Presentation to Carnegie Hero Danny Lee Tiger
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 …
Carnegie Medal Presentation to Carnegie Hero Michael Benjamin James
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 …
Carnegie Medal Presentation to widow of Carnegie Hero David Covington
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, …
Carnegie Medal Presentation to Carnegie Hero Darren M. Smith
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, …
Accident on 1914 film set spurs camera man to attempt rescue of actress
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 …
Exceptional Graduates: Carnegie Hero Fund scholar to pursue master’s degree in Christian counseling
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 …
Friends Remembered: Michael Robert Keyser
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 …