Military, civilian hero A. James Dyess
When A. James Dyess—“Jimmie”—was an undergraduate at Clemson (S.C.) Agricultural College, now Clemson University, he helped to save a woman from drowning in the Atlantic Ocean off Sullivans Island, S.C. …
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Officer John Smith,
2019 Awardee
Author: Carnegie Hero Fund
Medal presentation from one awardee to another
A Carnegie Medal presentation was held Aug. 16 in Eagan, Minn., in which Ryan Thomas Nelson received the award from Carnegie Medal awardee John P. Williams of LaCrosse, Wis., one of the …
Carnegie Medal presentation by Calif. Highway Patrol
By Susan Winlow, Features Editor Daily Republic, Fairfield, Calif. Perry Hookey relives the horrific morning of Jan. 10, 2013, every morning he drives to work as a paramedic at Medic …
Carnegie Medal awardee George Russell Blair recalls rescue
In a letter to his daughter 67 years later, Carnegie Medal awardee George Russell Blair recalled his dramatic rescue of a 9-year-old boy from the icy waters of Cazenovia Lake …
Carnegie Medal awardee Anthony Montville memorial receives marker
A bronze medallion cast in the likeness of the Carnegie Medal has been affixed to the memorial marking the grave of Carnegie Medal awardee Anthony Montville in Riverside Cemetery, Cleveland, …
Board Notes: A broadened context sharpens the thinking
By Mark Laskow, Chair Carnegie Hero Fund Commission imPULSE, which you are reading at this very moment, has had an interesting effect on the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. Before the …
Carnegie Medal awardee Terry Brown saves 14 year old
Thumbs Up Joshua A. Peterson, right, of Brookings, Ore., owes his life to Carnegie Medal awardee Terry Brown, a deputy with the Curry County, Ore., Sheriff’s Department. On June 2 last …
Family’s two Carnegie Medal awardees shared bonds of bravery and selflessness
By Roberta Scholz, Edmonds, Wash. On Jan. 20, 2014, our son, Philip Erich Scholz, 35, died tragically while attempting to rescue a man who was trying to commit suicide by …
Hero recounts rescue to high school seniors
Carnegie Medal awardee John Nash Hale, left, of Toms River, N.J., joined the Hero Fund’s director of external affairs, Douglas R. Chambers, for an assembly at Rae Kushner Yeshiva High …
Schaumburg teens honored at Village Meeting
Four recently awarded heroes were honored in front of family members and community leaders at the Schaumburg, Ill., April 14 Village Meeting. Tyler T. Fredrickson, 15, Matthew I. Grammas, 15, Graham W. Fath, 12, …
Natural gas leak leads to massive explosion, dramatic rescue by Paul W. Mongiello
Returning home from work on February 19, 2013, Paul W. Mongiello, a 57-year-old insurance executive from Overland Park, Kan., was stopped in traffic in Kansas City, Mo., when a massive …
Connecticut man rescues young girl from burning apartment
Frederick J. Levesque, Jr., 52, a retired corrections administrator from Stafford Springs, Conn., rescued Kerra R. Colgan, 7, from her family’s burning apartment in Somers, Conn., on Dec. 4, 2013. …
Three heroes, two rescues, one celebration
On February 20, three recently awarded heroes involved in two different rescues came together to be honored in front of family members and a large number of California Highway Patrol …
Great, great grandson uncovers ‘granddaddy’s’ grave stone — Ansel James
Through a family research project, educator Phillip N. Frazier, 41, of Washington, D.C., learned that his great-great-grandfather Ansel James was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1945, when, on Feb. 16, …
Remembering the hero of 1982 plane crash in Potomac River
Melvin E.—“Gene”—Windsor, 74, of Myrtle Beach, S.C., died Aug. 24, 2014. He was one of four men to be named awardees of the Carnegie Medal for their heroic actions in …
Heroic 16 year olds gave lives for others
Of the 21 heroes awarded the Carnegie Medal in June of 2014, two were 16-year-old sophomores, Madison Leigh Wallace and Malo Enrique Paul. Both died in their rescue attempts, and …
Firefighter rescues two sisters from Yellowstone River
Justin Lowell Hanley, 43, a wild land firefighter from Miles City, Mont., saved sisters Chava L. and Shoshana L. Berry from drowning in the Yellowstone River at Miles City on …
‘River man’s code’ prompts rescue act
On June 12, 2012, Kyle Robert Hardman, while a deckhand on a towboat plying the waters of the Mississippi River near St. Louis, Mo., gave his life in an attempt …
Judge perishes in Atlantic Ocean rescue
Mitchell L. McLean, 54, a chief district court judge from North Wilkesboro, N.C., died July 3, 2013 after attempting to save Maryanne Galway and others from drowning in the Atlantic …
Teacher enters bloodied water in shark attack rescue
High school teacher Richard Irvin Moore of Laguna Niguel, Calif., rescued Jana Lutteropp, 20, from a shark attack at Wailea, Hawaii, on August 14, 2013. Lutteropp was snorkeling in the …