Aw. Dave Smith died. Dave was the first archivist for the Disney company, founding a small division that grew into a large one. He went to work there in 1970 and I think I met him two years later when I began doing various writing projects for the firm. His self-described mission statement was to learn and preserve absolutely everything that had happened in and around Disney since before it was just the names of a couple of brothers without much money.
When he retired after forty years, leaving the quest to what had grown into a large staff, he hadn't exhausted the subject. That was impossible. But there was darn near nothing anyone would ever want to know about Disney that he or his crew couldn't answer.
I don't think I ever visited him without him saying "Look what we just found" and hauling out some amazing artifact that you couldn't believe had survived. He was truly a man who loved his job and did it well. Disney fans everywhere are forever in his debt. Here's an obit that probably has already been indexed and placed in the Disney Archives.