CHARLOTTESVILLE (WINA) – The University of Virginia is wishing their most visible professor a happy birthday as he turns 70 Sunday, August 7. Toward that effort, the University has created about a 3-minute video featuring prominent TV pundits Tara Setmayer and Paul Begala.
In it, they note Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected as President the year Larry was born in 1952 in Norfolk. It was the year Queen Elizabeth II began her reign, America saw the debut of NBC’s “Today Show”, Mr. Potato Head was also born that year, and the movie “Singing In the Rain” opened to modest reviews. While Begala and Setmayer call Sabato one of America’s most influential and most important college professors, they say he’ll tell you the work he’s most proud of is founding the UVa Center for Politics which he still leads today.
The University is requesting for his 70th… contributing $7 to celebrate Larry’s 7th year when he worked his first political campaign… $70 to help develop a new lesson plan for the National Youth Leadership Initiative… $700 to finance a student stipend for a UVa student interning at the Center… or $7000 to sponsor 10 international students visiting the Grounds to study American democracy at the Center.
Click here to watch the video celebrating Larry’s 70th.
