See Also:
Beginning of a FAMOUS Hero: The Fred Rogers Story.
Life Lesson #97 – Dream.
It was in 1901 that a boy named Walter was born in Chicago. When he was nine years old, his family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, and it was there that he, along with his sister, Ruth, and his brother, Roy went to Benton Grammar School.
Walter had a very special talent for drawing pictures, and he had a very active imagination, too! He especially liked drawing cartoon characters, and he made up stories to go along with his characters. Because of his excellent artwork, he joined the Kansas City Art Institute when he was only fourteen years old! Along about that same time, he got a job as a paperboy, and later he drove an ambulance for the United States Army.
After that, he went back home to continue his drawing, and once again he would settle for nothing less than excellence in the pictures he drew.
In 1923, Walter got a contract to make several cartoons so he and his brother Roy moved to Los Angeles, California. That’s where they were when Walter’s attitude of excellence really began to pay off! You see, he created a character called Mickey Mouse, and Walter — yes, Walt Disney — became famous!
Soon he had to hire other people to help him make a lot of animated movies, including Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and many more. Walter began to make a lot of other movies, too using real actors instead of cartoon characters. Then came Disney Land, Disney World, and so much more, all designed with excellence in mind by that boy named Walter from Chicago who grew up to be Walt Disney the HERO!
– Jim Lord