Umbrella show honors the late Arnold Palmer's 90th birthday

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Umbrella show honors the late Arnold Palmer's 90th birthday

Shane Dunlap | Tuesday, September 10, 2019 9:13 p.m.

Shane Dunlap | Tribune-Review

About 90 Saint Vincent College students volunteered to perform a colorful collaborative performance art with light-up umbrellas hosted by Pilobolus Dance Company on Tuesday night, Sept. 10, 2019 at Saint Vincent College. The live art display was in honor of the 90th birthday of Arnold Palmer.

On what would have been his 90th birthday, a fitting display of colorful, illuminated umbrellas was put on Tuesday in honor of Latrobe-native and golfing legend Arnold Palmer.

The event at UPMC Field at Saint Vincent College in Unity was presented by the famed Pilobolus dance company and the Arnold & Winnie Palmer Foundation. Saint Vincent students holding color-changing LED umbrellas moved to music and solved puzzles to “visually manifest the beauty of cooperation,” the organizers said.

The event culminated the “90 for 90” campaign — which honored 90 years of Arnold Palmer, who was born Sept. 10, 1929, in Latrobe.

The son of a groundskeeper at Latrobe Country Club went on to become a two-time PGA Player of Year and won seven major championships. Palmer died in 2016.

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