Carnegie Medal awardee attempts to save best friend
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 …
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Carnegie Medal awardee Gale O. Shreffler was hero in war and peace
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 …
Friends remembered: Philip Bevacqua
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, …
Double Carnegie Medal awardee featured in magazine
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 …
Mother remembers Carnegie Medal awardee Matthew Ray Hattaway
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 …
Carnegie Medal awardee sets sail for law school
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 …
Exploring the characteristics of heroes
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 …
Medal presentations for Dean Ronald Nelson and Christina Alicia Wilson
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 …
Commission staff member Myrna J. Braun honored
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 …
Hero Fund tour of U. S. Steel plant highlights shared Carnegie legacy
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 …
Behind the scenes: Chris Foreman joins Commission as newest case investigator
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 …
Grave marker placed to honor great-grandfather
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 …
Friends remembered: Paul H. Olson
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. …
Friends remembered: Howard R. Giles II
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 …
Board notes: Carnegie’s nine hero funds advance a compelling mission
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 …
Truckers braked to save lives and became national highway heroes
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 …
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. …
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 …