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Prior to his death on December
15, 1966, Walt Disney took a deep interest in the establishment of California
Institute of the Arts, a college-level professional school of all the
creative and performing arts. Of Cal Arts Walt once said, "It's the principal
thing I hope to leave when I move on to greener pastures. If I can help
provide a place to develop the talent of the future, I think I will have
accomplished something."
California Institute of the Arts
was founded in 1961 with the amalgamation of two schools, the Los Angeles
Conservatory of Music and Chouinard Art Institute. The campus is located
in the city of Valencia, 32 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles. Walt
Disney conceived the new school as a place where all the performing and
creative arts would be taught under one roof in a "community of the arts"
as a completely new approach to professional arts training.
Walt Disney is a legend, a folk
hero of the 20th century. His worldwide popularity is based upon the ideas
his name represents: imagination, optimism, and self-made success in the
American tradition. Walt Disney did more to touch the hearts, minds, and
emotions of millions of Americans than any other man in the past century.
Through his work he brought joy, happiness, and a universal means of communication
to the people of every nation. Certainly our world shall know but one
Walt Disney.
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