Jasper (Indiana) Police officers Grant A. Goffinet, left, and Brent D. Duncan received the Carnegie Medal for saving a 33-year-old man from an overturned,burning sport utility vehicle in a …
Wallace Earl Clendenen, 98, of Knoxville, Tennessee, died Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. Clendenen was named a Carnegie hero in 1942 for saving a 20-year-old student from drowning in Tellico Plains, …
In the early morning of an overcast Nov. 9, 1965, B. Bedelia Faeder, 73, was asleep in her third-floor apartment on King Street in Brockville, Ontario. The stone and brick …
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
In fitting celebration of a fire chief’s decades of service to his community, Carnegie Hero Paul H. Stoudt, Jr., 88, was recently surprised with a parade of at least 20 …
By Mark Laskow, Chair Carnegie Hero Fund Commission “As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” —Andrew Carnegie One hardly …
Two Sturgis (S.D.) police officers received the Carnegie Medal July 9 after a private presentation at the Sturgis City Hall. Rep. Dusty Johnson and Sturgis Police Chief Geody VanDewater presented …
If you ask Hero Fund Investigations Manager Jeffrey Dooley what he likes to do outside of work, he’ll tell you he likes to do what everyone likes to do: He …
The Hero Fund will create a special committee to look at ways to recognize and honor those who have willingly placed themselves in harm’s way to care for those afflicted …
I turned from news cameraman into a rescuer, basically. — Austin Raishbrook, Carnegie Medal awardee #9992 At that point, I had to do something. I couldn’t wait any longer. She …
After Lucy G. Branham became known as a suffragist and agitator for other political causes, news reports commonly cited her as a Carnegie hero when she stumped across the country. …
Gerald A. LaMonica, 85, of Dearborn Heights, Mich., died Tuesday, April 28, 2020. Ten years earlier, LaMonica was awarded the Carnegie Medal for saving a 10-year-old girl from attacking dogs …
On the evening of July 7, 1965, 18-year-old Clayton E. Toensing was descending the steep face of a 430-foot cliff with two younger teenagers, when he lost his footing, fell …
Dianne R. (Seifert) McKenzie, 81, of Baldwin, Pa., died Sunday, March 22, 2020. McKenzie was born on June 8, 1938, to the late William and Alvina Seifert of Pittsburgh, Pa. …
Jarrett M. Cherok, 38, of San Angelo, Texas, died Friday, Jan. 10, 2020. In 2006, Cherok was named a Carnegie hero for his June 8, 2005, rescue of a 47-year-old …
2019 was a relatively quiet year for the Hero Fund compared to the previous year’s excitement of our 10,000th medal awarded. But 2019 was nonetheless a landmark year as the …
“You know, I’d better write my Impulse article now, before I catch this damned virus.” I’ve been writing this quarterly column since 2007, or thereabouts, but this is the first …
On the outside of Julie K. Callaghan’s forearm, just above her wrist, a reminder in black ink spells out “50 mph” in slanted script with an arrow extending from the …
A Carnegie hero laid to rest in Indonesia now has a grave marker denoting the heroism he exhibited nearly 60 years before his death. “Few natives in this population have …
