‘Endurance:’ Carnegie Hero Fund officers look back at 2021
REPORT OF CHAIR “If there were a movie about the Hero Fund in 2020, I’d name it Resilience. If there were a sequel about 2021, I’d call it Endurance.” stated …
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Officer John Smith,
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Impulse 69: Board Notes
A slight lull in the hectic life of your dedicated Board Notes essayist (that’s me) allowed me to retrieve from my inbox a special story that has been calling for …
Hero’s granddaughter marks grave as a gift for mom
The family of Walter R. Fuchs has received a grave marker from the Hero Fund to place on his headstone. The 3.75-inch medallion that is cast in the likeness of …
From the archives: Female flight instructor responds to 1958 ’copter crash
In the early afternoon of Monday, April 28, 1958, 34-year-old John J. Ryan and his Powell Valley Electric Cooperative colleague, 49-year-old Davis L. McNiel, left Jonesville, Virginia, in a Bell …
Overheard: Impulse 69
It was something that went through my soul. You don’t think about risk. — Vickie Tillman, Carnegie Medal awardee #10000 Scary, definitely scary. It was surreal. — Robin Ireland, Carnegie …
Carnegie Medal presentation to Kenneth Brian McCarter
Carnegie Hero Kenneth Brian McCarter (left) reunited with the woman he saved in a ceremony where she presented him with the Carnegie Medal. Carol S. DeLillo was working in her …
Carnegie Medal presentation to Jonathan Bauer
Berlin Mayor Zack Tyndall (left) presented Carnegie Hero awardee Jonathan Bauer of Ocean Pines, Maryland, with the Carnegie Medal at the mayor’s office on March 23, 2022. He was recognized …
Carnegie Medal presentation to family of John D. Colter
St. Louis County Councilman Tim Fitch (center) presents the Carnegie Medal to the family of John D. Colter during an April 26, 2022 St. Louis County Council meeting in which …
Carnegie Medal presentation to Sean P. Conaboy
From left, Hero Fund President Eric Zahren reads the back of the Carnegie Medal to Carnegie Hero Sean P. Conaboy while Dr. Pete Lambrou, Hero Fund commission member, looks on. …
Carnegie Medal presentation to family of Edgar F. Moreno
From left, the mother of posthumous Carnegie Medal recipient Edgar F. Moreno Alba proudly holds her son’s Carnegie Medal, which was presented to her by Hero Fund Communications Director Jewels …
Carnegie Medal presentation to family of D’Angelo Cordero Jenkins
U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman presents the Carnegie Medal posthumously awarded to D’Angelo Cordero Jenkins to his mother, Kysia Lewis, during a ceremony at Norman’s district office in Rock Hill, South …
Carnegie Medal presentation to Shane Morrison
Carnegie Hero Shane Morrison (left) shakes the hand of Hero Fund President Eric Zahren upon receiving the Carnegie Medal from Zahren at a Concord Township (Ohio) Board of Trustees meeting …
Friends remembered: Andre J. Ledbetter
Andre J. Ledbetter, 75, of Pahrump, Nevada, died Monday, Feb. 28, 2022, at home. He was surrounded by family and his beloved dog. When he was 18, Ledbetter saved a …
Friends remembered: James Walter Polowy
James Walter Polowy, 74, of Long Grove, Illinois, died Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021. In 1980, Polowy repeatedly dived into the Miami Canal in Hialeah, Florida, to save a 49-year-old woman …
Friends remembered: Randall ODell Williams
Randall ODell Williams, 58, of Saginaw, Michigan, died Friday, Dec. 17, 2021. In 1991, Williams, then 28, a newspaper delivery truck driver, was in a Saginaw neighborhood and saw a …
Friends remembered: R. A. Mills
R.A. Mills, 90, of Albany, Oregon, died on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, after a long battle with pulmonary fibrosis. While on a cycling trip in 1988, Mills rescued a 74-year-old …
Friends remembered: Earl E. Cummins
Earl E. Cummins, 90, formerly of Fairhope, Pennsylvania, died Sunday, April 17, 2022. In 2004, Cummins saved a 76-year-old woman from burning after fire broke out in her Hyndman, Pennsylvania, …
David J. Brown
Two men, ages 34 and 35, started to struggle in a swimming area of the Gull River at a cabin resort in East Gull Lake, Minnesota, after they entered the …
Jamey Ruth Klassen
Sixteen-year-old Jamey Ruth Klassen of Guelph, Ontario, entered waters of the Georgian Bay, off of Lake Huron, on July 26, 2020, after she overheard others on the bank near Collingwood, …
Marc F. Romano
On a boat nearby, 26-year-old deckhand Marc F. Romano, of Kailua Kona, Hawaii, immediately jumped into the Pacific Ocean after hearing a swimmer screaming for help off the coast of …