Toombs

A veteran of Imagineering for nearly 55 years, Irvine just may be the only living creative at the company who worked with and was mentored by Walt’s initial team of designers, including her mother, Leota Toombs, one of the first women to work for Imagineering and the inspiration for Madame Leota.

A veteran with Imagineering for nearly 55 years, Irvine just may be the only living creative at the company who worked with and was mentored by Walt’s initial team of designers, including that of her mother, Leota Toombs, one of the first women to work for Imagineering and the inspiration for Madame Leota.

In the shop, officially designated as Madame Leota’s Somewhere Beyond, hangs a portrait of Toombs in her Haunted Mansion guise.

President Charles Toombs said in a statement that 76% of voting members approved the agreement and hailed the vote as a sign of the union’s “solidarity, debate and courage to press CSU management for better faculty working and student learning conditions.”

Charles Toombs, president of the California Faculty Assn., said raising minimum pay for the lowest-paid instructors, who make up more than half of the union’s 29,000 members, was a “massive and historic” win.