On this day in 1936, Sharon Mae Disney was born and adopted by Walt and Lillian Disney. Sharon went on to be elected to the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company. Additionally, Sharon was a trustee of the California Institute of the Arts, the Marianne Frostig Center of Educational Therapy, and the Curtis School Foundation. She was also quite active with the Los Angeles County Music Center. A few years after her death, the Sharon D. Lund Foundation made a large donation to the California Institute of the Arts, an organization that her father, Walt, also generously supported, and the school of dance was renamed to the Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance.
