JIM ROSENTHAL
Although now in his early sixties, TV sports presenter Jim Rosenthal still looks back on his Duke of Edinburgh Award (DofE) with fondness.
It was the mid-1960s when he started working towards his Gold award and the DofE programme wasn't well established. "I had the choice at my school of either going into the Combined Cadet Force or doing the DofE Awards, which was really in its infancy. I chose to do the DofE and it proved to be a terrific scheme for me. People still look at me with a bit of respect and astonishment when I say I got a Gold DofE award," he says.
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