The Hero Fund in the classroom
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 …
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Account of Native American heroic rescue kept alive by family, historians, researchers
Don Stoll of Good Hart, Mich., is the great-grandson of Joseph Okenotego, one of the first Native Americans to be awarded the Carnegie Medal, and 108 years after his great-grandfather’s …
Carnegie Hero reflects on medal
Awarded the Carnegie Medal in September 2015 for helping to save the pilot of a small crashed and burning airplane in West Jordan, Utah, on Aug. 10, 2014, Kirby Crump …
Hometown Hero
Shown helping to install his plaque on the “Wall of Honor” at Janesville (Wis.) High School, 2008 Carnegie Medal awardee Kermit R. Kubitz was cited by his alma mater in …
From the archives: Legacy of hero strong through 112 years
By Margaretmary McCann and William Norbert Our relative, Thomas H. McCann of South Portland, Maine, was the sixth recipient of the Carnegie Medal and the first Mainer to be honored. If …
Friends remembered: Keith W. Daniels
Kenneth W. Daniels, 81, of Havelock, N.C., died March 29, 2016. He and a co-rescuer were each awarded a Carnegie Medal in 1961 for saving a crewman who was trapped …
The Quotable A.C.: Impulse 46
“Man was not created with an instinct for his own degradation, but from the lower he had risen to the higher forms. Nor is there any conceivable end to his …
Carnegie Medal presented to Matthew L. Tranel and Cory Alan Simonson
Carnegie Medal volunteer presenter John P. Williams presented two Carnegie Medals Tuesday March 22, 2016, at a ceremony held at the Maquoketa (Iowa) Volunteer Fire Department. Williams is also a Carnegie …
Carnegie Medal presented to Clifford A. Wright
Carnegie Hero Clifford A. Wright, who rescued two people from a submerging vehicle, was presented the Carnegie Medal on March 20, 2016, at a private presentation held in Sarasota, Fla. …
Carnegie Medal presentation to Carnegie Hero Joel Kevin Kyle, Jr.
Carnegie Hero Joel Kevin Kyle, Jr., was presented with the Carnegie Medal at a private ceremony held February 5, 2016 in Altoona, Pa. Douglas R. Chambers, director of external affairs …
March 2016 edition of imPULSE
The March 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 stories reviewing the Commission’s last year …
2015 in review: Hero Fund attested to ‘genuine article’ of modern heroism
By Sybil P. Veeder, Ph.D., Chair, Executive Committee Carnegie Hero Fund Commission When six men, including three Americans, subdued an armed assailant aboard a Paris-bound train in August 2015, The …
Board notes: Actions of heroes ultimate in our democratic values
By Mark Laskow, Chair Carnegie Hero Fund Commission Who needs these heroes, the men and women who earned the Carnegie Medal? Those they rescued did, of course, but isn’t the …
Monument of hero restored
With some investigating by historian Ken Johnson of Langley, B.C., initiative by dedicated cemetery leadhand Shawn Flint of Thunder Bay, Ont., elbow grease by Lakehead Monument Ltd. of Thunder Bay, …
Hometown puts Carnegie Medal awardee in large mural depicting notable natives
Decades after Nazareth A. Tomasetti rescued a man from a cave-in during a street-excavation project, his portrait adorns a five-story-tall building in his longtime home of Pittston, Pa. Tomasetti, a …
Measure of his heart: Carnegie Hero writes book
Carnegie Medal recipient and Lighthouse Project founder Paul J. Lessard has recently turned his pen toward the subject of long-time friend and mentor, Yogi Yarborough, in his latest book, A …
Stories of heroes continue past their acts, as each life touches so many others
By Traci E. Langston Phoenix, Ariz. Noah V. Langston saved Delilah E. Arnold from drowning, Sperry, Oklahoma, June 2, 1922. While wading and trying to swim in Bird Creek, Delilah, …
Radio host queries awardees: What does it mean to be heroic?
By Mike Slater Radio Station KFMB, San Diego, Calif. We’re all so confused about what’s right and wrong, what we value, and what we consider heroic and what we consider …
Carnegie Hero Lincoln J. Partridge died for another
Carnegie Hero Lincoln J. Partridge was 43 and the father of five when he lost his life in a tragic accident on Nov. 23, 1907. His death came just after …
Stichting Carnegie Heldenfonds secretary retiring
Hans W. de Vries, 12-year secretary of Stichting Carnegie Heldenfonds—the hero fund of the Netherlands—retired at the end of 2015. He started work for the Dutch fund in 2004 and …