Carnegie Medals Awarded to 21 for Extraordinary Acts of Civilian Heroism
In its fourth and final award announcement of 2010, the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission today named 21 individuals from throughout the United States and Canada as recipients of the CARNEGIE MEDAL. The medal is given to those who risk their lives to an extraordinary degree while saving or attempting to save the lives of others.
The heroes announced today bring to 85 the number of awards made in 2010 and to 9,412 the total number of awards since the Pittsburgh-based Fund’s inception in 1904. Commission President Mark Laskow 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 Andrew Carnegie, $32.9 million has been given in one-time grants, scholarship aid, death benefits, and continuing assistance.
| The latest awardees are: | ||
| Keith B. Havens | Albion, Mich. | |
| Zachary Prince Havens | Albion, Mich. | |
| Zane W. Havens | Albion, Mich. | |
| Mark J. Pierce | Morristown, Tenn. | |
| Donald Ericson | The Woodlands, Texas | |
| Trevor Jordan Tally, deceased | La Grande, Ore. | |
| Julie Fitzpatrick | Lighthouse Point, Fla. | |
| Gheorghita Rusu | Ottawa, Ont. | |
| David A. Benke | Littleton, Colo. | |
| Michael V. Sharpe | Spruce Grove, Alta. | |
| Larry G. Darrohn, Jr., deceased | Jim Thorpe, Pa. | |
| Steven Bradley Estes | Hartselle, Ala. | |
| Gerald Piacente | Red Hook, N.Y. | |
| Jose Higareda, deceased | Norwalk, Conn. | |
| Eula Lee Harward, deceased | Ocala, Fla. | |
| Christopher Alan Sturgeon | Topeka, Kan. | |
| Victor Oxford | Corona, Calif. | |
| Brian W. Coblentz | Germantown, Tenn. | |
| Joseph M. Healey | Bullhead City, Ariz. | |
| Scott Matthew Bligh | El Cajon, Calif. | |
| Gary A. Kneeshaw | El Cajon, Calif. | |
Details of these heroic acts can be found at http://www.carnegiehero.org/awardees_recent.php. More on the CARNEGIE MEDAL and the history of the CARNEGIE HERO FUND COMMISSION can be found at www.carnegiehero.org
To nominate someone for the CARNEGIE MEDAL, write the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, 436 Seventh Avenue, Suite 1101, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, or call 1-800-447-8900 (toll free).
