Walt Disney Elementary School - Anaheim, CA
by Steve
Thursday, December 27, 2007
OCThen reader, "hwdlaura" asks if anyone else attended Walt Disney Elementary School in Anaheim...
Any alumni of Walt Disney Elementary in Anaheim out there? My sister and I both went there in the 60s. I went back a few years ago and took some photos of the wonderful Disney artwork in the cafeteria. I remember sitting on the cafeteria floor on parent/teacher conference days watching Disney movies. Herman the janitor, and Earl D Butler, principal. Delphine the crossing guard. My first grade teacher was Fay Schimming and my sixth grade teacher was Brenda Zanzee.
There are actually several "Walt Disney Elementary" schools across the country, including two others in California (Burbank, and San Ramon). You'd think that this one in Anaheim would have been the first, but it wasn't.
A website called, "Started by a Mouse", says that the Anaheim school was the third to be blessed with Walt's namesake (
link)...
The third Walt Disney Elementary was naturally in Anaheim, where Walt surprised the school officials and students by declaring it a school holiday, and inviting all of the students to come to Disneyland for the day.
But another website, Mouseplanet, says that the school in Marcine, MO (Walt's boyhood home), was the third (
link).
Maybe someone at the school district knows.
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