Milt Albright

Milt Albright (June 7, 1916 - April 7, 2014) born in Kearney, Missouri was an manager/accountant for the Walt Disney Company from 1947 until his retirement in 1992. At age 21 Albright got interested in working for Walt Disney, after seeing him appear on the cover of Time Magazine in 1937. It wasn't till June 19, 1947 that he made the dream come true and was hired to work for Walt Disney Studios.
Walt Disney Studios / Walt Disney Company Career
At the start of his career in 1947 Albright was hired as a junior accountant at the Walt Disney Studios in the payroll department delivering and preparing paychecks for executives and employees including both Walt Disney and his brother Roy O. Disney.
It wasn't until 1953 that Albright found a new interest in a new proposed project by Walt Disney known as Disneyland. In response to this new proposed amusement park by Walt Disney Albright decided to gain Walt's attention by creating his own miniature car designed after the 1954 Corvette, a model car which would later become a prototype for the Disneyland attraction Autopia. While the car's fiberglass body and designed intrigued Walt Disney, Albright unfortunately didn't get the time to mention to Walt that the car itself wasn't done and was missing it's breaks. Within mintues of testing it Walt Disney was forced to come to a crashing halt in the car leading to splitting the entire body in half. While this event didn't impress Walt Disney it did encourage him to take note of the younger Albright.
In the year 1954, Albright was hired as the manager of accounting for Disneyland Park which he claimed was given to him not for his knowledge, but that he was a very trustworthy person for the position. By July 1, 1954, Albright was one of seventeen employees for Disneyland which not only included him, but also Walt Disney and Ron W. Miller who later became president of the Walt Disney Productions.
Around 1957, after being manager for the park Albright was given the position for the now closed Disneyland party/picnic area know as Holidayland which use to sit where Critter Country now resides in the park. By 1958 Albright was transferred to the group sales department where he founded the most successful in-house marketing program in history for the Walt Disney Company. The program was called the Magic Kingdom Club which gave special discounts on tickets to those who had a club card, which at its best served over 6 million members and 30,000 companies worldwide.
On June 15, 1961, Albright hosted and designed a new private Disneyland party known as Grad Nite, which continues on till this day as a tradition for all Southern California High Schools. By the 1970s Albright was the manager for the special projects in the marketing department before ultimately finishing his career in the guest communications department in 1992.
Awards and honors
In 1992, Albright received the honor of having his name appear on Main Street, U.S.A. windows at Disneyland. The window, which can be found above The Mad Hatter/Opera House reads: Milt Albright - Entrepreneur - No Job Too Big - No Job Too Small.
It wasn't until 2005 Albright got inducted as a Disney Legend for his contributions for the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts.

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