LOS ANGELES COUNTY - News from July 20, 1987

Walt Disney Imagineering, the Walt Disney Co. subsidiary in Glendale responsible for the creation of the company’s theme park and leisure ventures, has promoted four executives.

Martin Sklar has been named executive vice president-creative group. Patrick Scanlon has been named vice president-business affairs and planning. Randy Bright has been named executive producer for Disneyland and for Walt Disney World in Florida. Tony Baxter has been named executive producer and chief designer for the Euro Disneyland Magic Kingdom, a new theme park being built 20 miles east of Paris. Chris Carradine has been promoted to executive producer and chief designer-environmental design. He will supervise the creative teams responsible for architectural design and environmental aspects of Disney’s parks. Rick Rothschild has been named executive producer for entertainment center projects. He will help plan several entertainment/retail center projects being considered for the United States, Europe and Japan.