Are there gene variants in humans associated with a greater probability to help others in an emergency? That is, is being a hero in our DNA? The question intrigued three …
Ivah J. Coles of East St. Louis, Ill., gave his life for a friend on June 8, 1904, within two months of the Hero Fund’s founding in April. He was …
Concluding a 25-year career with the U.S. Secret Service, most lately as special agent in charge of the Pittsburgh field office, Eric. P. Zahren was elected the Commission’s new Executive …
A century after his heroic death, George C. Reitmeier’s story lives on at the gravesite of the boy hero in Cumberland, Md. George was just 9 when he died Jan. …
In mid-July 1916, the remnants of two hurricanes collided over western North Carolina, inundating the mountain region and the western Piedmont with historic rainfall. The result was catastrophic. Landslides wiped …
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 …
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 …
Earl L. Zimmerman, 87, of Williamsville, N.Y., died Feb. 26, 2016. As Zimmerman, 23, was pulling the unconscious driver of a wrecked truck from its cab on March 15, 1951, …
Hershal B. Sargent, 87, of Gahanna, Ohio, died Dec. 20, 2015. Sargent was one of five men who were each awarded the medal in 1967 for their heroic actions of …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
“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 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 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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
