>>>... and the awards of Personality of the Year will probably not materially enhance the recipients future prospects.
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>>Like if you applied for a job, doing Foxpro, and could say to your interviewer that you'bve been nominated POTY by the Foxpro community, it wouldn't make any difference? Even if it were for another discipline, the nomination shows you've got the smarts anyway.
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>I think the operative words I used was "materially enhance". If I was smart enough to get the UT award (like SB et al) then I doubt very much whether I would need to use it as my ticket into a job. I suspect that people like SB have considerably more feathers in their caps than that :) I think the award is a great way to say thanks to those that have done so much, with so little, for so many. (Hmmm I would make a pretty good speech writer).

Winston Churchill would have hired you in an instant.

I was disappointed to learn recently that much of his laudable six volume history of WWII was ghostwritten.