Behind the Scenes: Admin. assistant finds ‘place’ at Hero Fund
I FOUND MY PLACE. When I walked through the doors here at Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, I KNEW. I started at the Carnegie Hero Fund as a temporary employee in …
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Officer John Smith,
2019 Awardee
Friends Remembered: Damion Derobbio
Damion DeRobbio, 43, died on Tuesday, March 21, 2023, at his home in Poland, Ohio. DeRobbio was born in Pittsburgh on March 29, 1979, to Philip Anthony and Margaret Caitlyn …
Friends Remembered: Charles Noland Pierceall
Charles Noland Pierceall, 89, of Washington, Illinois, died on Sunday, March 5, 2023. Pierceall was born to Carl and Martha Pierceall in Fancy Farm, Kentucky, on Nov. 24, 1933. Pierceall …
Friends Remembered: Joseph B. Coleman
Joseph B. Coleman of Ashland, New Hampshire, died Monday, March 6, 2023. Coleman was born Sept. 10, 1928, in Providence, Rhode Island. He was the son of George V. and …
Friends Remembered: Rogene A. Vartanian
Carnegie Hero Rogene A. (Vartanian) McCorquodale, 79, of Santa Rosa, California, died Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. She was born March 2, 1944, in San Francisco to Jack and Lorraine Vartanian, …
The Quotable A.C.: Impulse 73
“In this world we must learn not to lay up our treasures, but to enjoy them day by day as we travel the path we never return to. If …
Carnegie Medal presentation to Darby Bicking
Carnegie Hero Darby Bicking poses with Hero Fund Director of Operations Melissa Brock after Brock presented her the Carnegie Medal in a April 13 ceremony held at the Coatesville (Pennsylvania) …
Hero’s rescue rings installed in southeastern Florida
Officials in Coral Springs, Florida, on Feb. 25, kicked off the installation of more than 70 rescue life rings near bodies of water in city parks in honor of Carnegie …
A supreme sacrifice: Man won Carnegie Medal for selfless heroism
By Jimmy Tomlin/ The High Point Enterprise Dec. 3—HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROLINA — A modest grave marker at Oakwood Cemetery tells the day that Don R. Kirkman died — July …
Impulse 72: Board notes
Every Carnegie hero has earned the Carnegie Medal by making a choice that would define their life. Not an abstract decision, like “I like jazz music better than rock,” but …
Overheard: Impulse 72
I’m happy that I was able to get him out. To this day, I sometimes think about what I could have done differently. You still wish you could have done …
Friends Remembered: Charles S. Harris
Carnegie Hero Charles S. Harris, 81, died Monday, Dec. 19, 2022, at his home in Ooltewah, Tennessee. Harris was a renowned Civil War historian and author, specifically known for finding …
Friends Remembered: Donna Cortese-Munday
Donna Cortese-Munday, 76, of Garineau, Quebec, died Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. She was the widow of Carnegie Hero Mario D. Cortese, and a beneficiary of the commission for 34 years. …
Friends Remembered: Melvin G. Kauffman
Melvin G. Kauffman, 91, of Pulaski, Pennsylvania, died Friday, Dec. 23, 2022. Born Aug. 13, 1931, to Lewis A. and Florence Mayberry Kauffman, he lived his entire 91 years in …
Friends Remembered: Louis R. Zabinski
Louis R. Zabinski, 90, of East Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, died Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022, at Allegheny Valley Hospital in Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania. Born Oct. 3, 1932, in East Vandergrift, he was …
Friends Remembered: Michael D. Croft
Carnegie Hero Michael D. Croft, 77, of Cheektowaga, New York, died Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022. Croft was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1986 after he rescued an 84-year-old man from …
Friends Remembered: Joshua Stewart Wright
Carnegie Hero Joshua Stewart Wright, 42, of Dahlonega, Georgia, died Friday, Jan. 20, 2023. Wright received the Carnegie Medal in 2018, after saving a 2-year-old girl from burning after the …
From the Archives: Heroes risk falling to their deaths in cliffside rescue
On Feb. 25, 1963, off the coast of Grand Manan Island in Canada’s New Brunswick province, Floyd D. Jones and his brother were fishing in a 15-foot motorboat when the …
The Quotable A.C.: Impulse 72
“True heroes think not of reward. They are inspired and think only of their fellows endangered; never of themselves.” — Andrew Carnegie biography
Carnegie Medal presentation to Scott Morin, Enmanuel Familia, Amy M. Waterman, Angela C. Consiglio, Steven Barnett, and Allen Noble Corson, Jr.
Those honored at a formal, Jan. 13 ceremony honoring six Carnegie heroes stand proudly with the Carnegie Medal on stage at Mechanics Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts. Five police officers and …