Andrew Carnegie’s Hero Fund Commission is administered carefully to ensure its existence into perpetuity, and a visitor to the Commission’s 111th annual meeting on June 25, 2015 was a symbol …
Not only were Ryan Thomas Nelson of Eagan, Minn., and Matthew J. Heisler of Lakeville, Minn., roommates at the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks, they were best friends …
Carnegie Medal awardee Gale O. Shreffler of Plum, Pa., who died May 31, 2014, at 90, was a certified hero in both war and peace. He compiled an impressive record …
Philip Bevacqua, 85, of Totowa, N.J., died May 17, 2015. Awarded the Carnegie Medal at age 77 in 2008, Bevacqua was a police captain for the Paterson, N.J., Police Department, …
Carnegie Medal awardee Charles T. Carbonell, Sr., of Tampa, Fla., is one of only five recipients of the Carnegie Medal to have been awarded the medal twice, and that fact …
By Janet D. Hattaway Shreveport, La. I am the proud mother of a man, Matthew Ray Hattaway, who has been recognized by the Hero Fund for his outstanding act of …
Summer visitors to the Hero Fund’s offices included Carnegie medal awardee Clerc Higgins Cooper, 22, of New Orleans, who was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 2009 for a heroic rescue …
By Brian R. Riches School of Social Science, Policy & Evaluation Claremont (Calif.) Graduate University Anyone can be a hero. A civilian who rescues another person from a fire at …
Several awardees of the Carnegie Medal volunteer their services for medal presentations to newly named awardees. Two such presentations were made in May 2015 to awardees announced earlier this year. Fire …
Long service recognized The longest-serving member of the Hero Fund Commission staff, Myrna J. Braun, was honored at the Commission’s 111th annual meeting on June 25, 2015 with a certificate …
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission has long benefited from a relationship with the United States Steel Corporation, the largest integrated steel producer headquartered in the U.S. Both entities share in …
By Chris Foreman, Case Investigator Carnegie Hero Fund Commission Some days, it seems like there is no shortage of heroes in the headlines. In recent weeks, I’ve spotted news websites …
Sally Laubin of South Deerfield, Mass., recently honored the memory of her great-grandfather, John Morris, with the placement of a bronze grave marker on his headstone at Mt. St. Benedict’s …
Paul H. Olson, 92, of Anoka, Minn., died June 9, 2015. At age 38 on March 13, 1961, he saved a woman from drowning in the Mississippi River at Minneapolis. …
Howard R. Giles II, 73, of Henderson, Nev., died June 28, 2015. Giles was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1955 in recognition of his actions of Aug. 26, 1954, by …
By Mark Laskow, Chair Carnegie Hero Fund Commission Little did I suspect when I joined the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission in 1992 that I would one day travel to Norway …
Clinton D. Blackburn of Winchester, Ky., and McKenzie McKay Guffey of Gainesboro, Tenn., are both truck drivers, were both on the road when they effected extraordinary acts of lifesaving within …
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. …
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 …
