Carnegie Medal presentation to Carnegie Hero Jonathan Wiese
San Diego Police Chief Brian Nisleit, left, presents the Carnegie Medal to Carnegie Hero Jonathan Wiese on June 3, 2021, in front of San Diego Police’s monument to its police …
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Carnegie Medal presentation to Carnegie Heroes Jonathan and Matthew Goldfarb
From left, Fairfield (Connecticut) Police Chief Robert Kalamaras and Captain Antonio Granata; First Selectwoman Brenda Kupchick; Carnegie heroes and brothers Jonathan and Matthew Goldfarb; and police Sgt. Michael Stahl pose …
Carnegie Medal presentation to Carnegie Hero Shawn H. Turner
Boca Raton (Florida) Mayor Scott Singer, left, poses with, from right, Zachary Bihr, director of municipal services for Boca Raton; Carnegie Hero Shawn H. Turner, who works as a plumber …
Outreach and investigative interns join Hero Fund staff for summer
This summer the Carnegie Hero Fund offered intern positions in the outreach and investigative departments. A Master’s student at the University of Pittsburgh’s Katz School of Business, Elijah Lambiotte, is …
The Quotable A.C.: Impulse 66
We live in a heroic age. Not seldom are we thrilled by deeds of heroism where men or women are injured or lose their lives in attempting to preserve or …
Friends remembered: John H. Brinkman
John H. Brinkman, 84, of Mason City, Iowa, died Saturday, April 3, 2021, at Mercy One North Iowa Hospice surrounded by his family. When Brinkman was 16, he helped save …
Friends remembered: Shane Douglas Burger
Shane Douglas Burger, 46, of Pavilion, New York, died Monday, June 21, 2021, at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York, after battling a lengthy illness. Burger received the Carnegie …
Friends remembered: James E. Spruill
James E. Spruill, 86, of Williamston, North Carolina, died Sunday, July, 11, 2021, at his home. In 1957, Spruill was named a Carnegie Hero for saving 40-year-old Josephine R. Cox, …
Daughter discovers Dad’s Carnegie Medal after his death
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 …
Carnegie Corp. leader and Hero Fund friend Vartan Gregorian dies at age 87
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 …
Impulse 65: Board Notes
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 …
And the work went on: Carnegie Hero Fund offers look back at 2020
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 …
Carnegie Medal presentation to Carnegie Hero Edward S. Cyr
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 …
Carnegie Medal presentation to Carnegie Hero Donald C. Lowrie
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 …
Historical society ‘chronicles’ 15 Carnegie heroes from Smith County, Texas
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 …
Carnegie Medal presentation to Carnegie Hero Pierre Joseph Gibbons
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 …
First Lady column touches family of Carnegie hero
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, …
Carnegie Medal presentation to Carnegie Hero Seth Robert Bond
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 …
Carnegie Medal presentation to Carnegie Hero Leslie E. Shaffer
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 …
Friends remembered: James R. Seitz
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 …