Ron Gross won a Carnegie Medal winner for intervening during an assault in York in 2003. He's one of a handful of York countians ever awarded the medal. Background posts: York County educator recalls machete attack on 'I survived', War memorials stand proudly in towns through York County and Hollywood discovers heroics of Four Chaplains.
When Hanover's Craig Gouker received a post-humous Carnegie Medal recently, his name was placed on an honored list occupied by only 15 other York countians in the past 100 years.
York criminal defense attorney Ron Gross was the last county resident to be so honored for coming to the aid of a court stenographer under attack on a York street in 2003.
Another Hanoverian, Oliver L. Schmuck was the first. He also died trying to save a fellow student from a Cornell University fire in 1906... .
Continue reading 16 York County Good Samaritans honored with Carnegie Medals since 1906.
