Kathleen Lindsey:  

I started school at Mulberry Elementary. My family went to St Andrew Lutheran Church. My best friends were Mary Morton, Karen Nucci and Kathy Dolan. I continued on to Hillview Jr High School and became interested in Art. Once I started at Cal High I continued with Art classes and planned to teach art. My design for the year book won for 1967. I attended Cypress Collège for several years and then on to Cal State University, Fullerton completing a degree in Art Education with a minor in English. After a 5th year of student teaching and School of Education, I received a teaching credential to teach Art in grades 1 - 12. (I never used it, however...) I married Fredrick Brown in July 1968. He was in the Air Force and later became a history teacher and swim coach. While I was in College, I was working for Wickes Furniture as the Display manager and loving it! Fred and I divorced in 1976. no children At Wickes Furniture I met Jeffrey Day from Covina. He was my soul mate and ardent admirer of my artwork. Jeff and I married in 1978. We spent a year starting up an interior design company focusing on murals. However, Disneyland had an opening for Park Decorator and I got the position with the Facilities Maintenance and Construction Division in December of 1978. I had 20 wonderful years designing window displays and props for animated sets. We helped the other part of our department with florals and event decoration installations. Christmas was the best! Loved decorating all the windows and buildings, Christmas trees and restaurant interiors. So much fun working with crazy artists every day. I later became Project Planner in the Construction group, scheduling craftsmen and contractors and managing budgets for maintenance on the attractions and facilities. For 3 years I was a manager of Training and Development for the 800 Craftsmen and women in the Division. Great fun using my teaching background with a bunch of creatively talented folks. The last 2 years of my 20 were in Tokyo with Publishing and Educational division of Marketing. I was liaison to a Japanese Book Publisher, buil...Expand for more