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 …
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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 …
Friends remembered: James Vernon
James Vernon, 81, of Morton, Illinois died Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Illinois. Vernon was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 2017 for saving …
Friends remembered: Ricky Don Bailey
Ricky Don Bailey, 63, died Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, at his Clinton, Louisiana, home surrounded by family. His death came after a long struggle with dementia. When Bailey was 31 …
Friends remembered: Ronald Larsen
Ronald Larsen, 81, of Elko, Nevada, died Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. When Larsen was 57, he rescued 3-year-old Nicholas R. Nolte from burning in his family’s one-story home on Jan. …
From the Archives: Circle-K clerk saves toddler in runaway truck
On the warm evening of May 19, 1967, 23-year-old mother Toni Diffie fastened her 3-year-old daughter Ginger Lee into a canvas car seat that hung from the backrest of the …
For the greater love of Rudell Stitch
By Glen Sharp NYfights.com Rudell Stitch died on a Sunday – June 5, 1960 – the day before he was to sign for a rematch with the No. 1-ranked welterweight …
The Quotable A.C.: Impulse 65
Nowadays, as I sit in my office, I am positioned under Carnegie’s portrait, and cannot help but reflect, with some awe, on the responsibility of following in the footsteps of …