Carnegie Medals Awarded to 19 for Extraordinary Acts of Civilian Heroism

    


    
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<p><span class="xn-location">PITTSBURGH</span>, <span class="xn-chron">Sept. 23</span> /CNW/ -- In its third award announcement of 2010, the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission today named 19 individuals as recipients of the Carnegie Medal.  The medal is given throughout the <span class="xn-location">United States</span> and <span class="xn-location">Canada</span> to those who risk their lives to an extraordinary degree while saving or attempting to save the lives of others.</p>
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<p>The heroes announced today bring to 64 the number of awards made in 2010 to date and to 9,391 the total number of awards since the Pittsburgh-based Fund's inception in 1904.  Commission <span class="xn-person">President Mark Laskow</span> stated that each of the awardees or their next of kin will also receive a financial grant.  Throughout the 106 years since the Fund was established by industrialist-philanthropist <span class="xn-person">Andrew Carnegie</span>, <span class="xn-money">$32.7 million</span> has been given in one-time grants, scholarship aid, death benefits, and continuing assistance.</p>
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<p>Three of the awardees died in the performance of their heroic acts, each while helping to save a child from drowning.  Carnegie wrote in the Hero Fund's Deed of Trust that those who are injured or lose their lives in such acts are the "heroes of civilization."  The latest awardees are:</p>
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    Jeffrey R. Heimbach                       Denville, N.J.
    Garrett T. Townsend, Jr., deceased        Detroit, Mich.
    Catharina Rowley                          Paso Robles, Calif.
    Alexander J. Whitney                      Grand Haven, Mich.
    Stanley C. Romberg                        Ocala, Fla.
    Corey Saladin                             Reed City, Mich.
    Scott Hecht                               Hauppage, N.Y.
    Douglas L. Hipple                         Warren, Ohio
    Eric L. Fullerton                         Salt Lake City, Utah
    John M. Krahn                             Muskego, Wis.
    James Callahan                            Flower Mound, Texas
    Keith Sampson                             Flint, Mich.
    Kristine Kelly Keaton                     Flint, Mich.
    Allen Lee Heck, deceased                  Longview, Wash.
    Michael Earl Gay, Sr.                     Bartow, Fla.
    Nathan R. Simpson                         Medina, Ohio
    Tina Maryann Moores, deceased             Grand Falls-Windsor, N.L.
    John Rechlitz                             Milwaukee, Wis.
    Joel P. Rechlitz                          Milwaukee, Wis.


    
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<p>Resumes of the acts follow can be found at <a href="http://www.carnegiehero.org/awardees_recent.php">http://www.carnegiehero.org/awardees_recent.php</a>. Fuller information on the Carnegie Medal and the history of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission can be found at <a href="http://www.carnegiehero.org">www.carnegiehero.org</a></p>
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