(living) Frederick Cochrane is a resort planner who joined Harrison “Buzz” Price’s Economic Research Associates in 1962. Economic Research Associates (which became the Harrison Price Company and then Cochrane Consulting) did the resort feasibility studies for WED Enterprises, Inc.
(19??-2014) Royal “Mickey” Clark was Walt Disney’s personal family accountant. He started working for WED Enterprises, Inc. in 1952 or 1955 and became and secretary-treasurer of WED Enterprises, Inc. Later he became Executive Vice President of the company. He retired in 1985. Clark also served as Treasurer and later, Vice President for Walt Disney’s privately owned company, Retlaw Enterprises.
(1928-1967) Robert Bergfeldt Brown was an architect and art director for WED Enterprises, as well as Sharon Disney’s first husband.
(1908-1992) Roger E. Broggie was a mechanical engineer, and the first Disney Imagineer. He began his Disney career in 1939 in the Camera Department and later established the Disney Studio machine shop. Being interested in trains, he helped Walt Disney with his train hobby and engineered the layout for the scale-model train at Disney’s Holmby Hills backyard. He later headed MAPO [manufacturing area of WED Enterprises/Walt Disney Imagineering] and retired in 1975. One of the locomotives on the Walt Disney World Railroad is named after him. He was named a Disney Legend in 1990.
(1904-1977) Montgomery “Monty” Atwater was an avalanche researcher who provided services to Walt Disney Productions c. 1969 when the company was researching methods of avalanche control in Mineral King, where Disney planned to build a ski area. Atwater established the first avalanche research center in the Americas, and helped develop a pneumatic cannon for launching avalanch control explosives. He managed avalanche control for the 1960 Olympics in Squaw Valley and alpine skiing World Championships in Chile in 1966.