22 Carnegie Medals Awarded In U.S., Canada To Recognize Extraordinary Civilian Heroism

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 3, 2013 /CNW/ - In its third award announcement of 2013, the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission today named 22 individuals as recipients of the Carnegie Medal. The medal is given throughout the United States and Canada to those who risk their lives to an extraordinary degree while saving or attempting to save the lives of others. One of the awardees, Jeffery Scott Dinkins, died in the performance of his heroic act.

The heroes announced today bring to 9,633 the number of awards made since the Pittsburgh-based Fund's inception in 1904. Commission President Mark Laskow stated that each of the awardees or their survivors will also receive a financial grant. Throughout the 109 years since the Fund was established by industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, more than $35.4 million has been given in one-time grants, scholarship aid, death benefits, and continuing assistance. The awardees are:

Thomas St. John Harding	Mays Landing, N.J.
William Smith	Fairview, N.J.
David B. Mayo	Tecumseh, Ont.
Marcelino M. Orozco	Long Beach, Calif.
Jeffery Scott Dinkins, deceased	Lewisville, N.C.
Clarence M. Brooks, Jr.	Highland Village, Texas
Kevin Pratt	Milwaukie, Ore.
Nicholas A. Hays	East Wenatchee, Wash.
Bradley A. Bowman	Mablevale, Ark.
James Philip Snider	Clarksville, Tenn.
Peter Weatherford	Clarksville, Tenn.
John Nash Hale	Toms River, N.J.
Steven M. Enns	Estevan, Sask.
Jeremy Day	Sidney, Maine
Patrick J. Rimoshytus	Warren, R.I.
John Cody Clarke	Vancouver, Wash.
Christopher E. Williams	Gallipolis, Ohio
Thomas R. Nielsen	Louisville, Ky.
James B. Terry	Jeffersonville, Ind.
Pierre Johnson	Brooklyn Park, Minn.
Brian D. Lozier	Sterling, N.Y.
Warren L. Wood, Jr.	Crozet, Va.

Resumes of the acts can be found at http://carnegiehero.org/awardees. Fuller information on the Carnegie Medal and the history of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission can be found at www.carnegiehero.org.

Contact: Douglas R. Chambers
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SOURCE: Carnegie Hero Fund Commission

http://www.carnegiehero.org