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Information on this page from
TWELVE YEARS OF TROUPING WITH GAINESVILLE COMMUNITY CIRCUS
by A. Morton Smith

OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS

 

President....................................................... Mrs. Ruth Cheaney

Secretary-Treasurer....................................... Cecil Murphy

Directors....................................................... B. F. Mitchell

.................................................................... A. Morton Smith

.................................................................... James B. Piper

.................................................................... Mrs. Deva Spence

.................................................................... Mrs. Clay Newton

.................................................................... Joe B. Pettit

.................................................................... J. L. Webb

.................................................................... Dr. R. C. Whiddon

 

EXECUTIVE AND MECHANICAL STAFF

 

Manager................................................ Mrs Ruth Cheaney

Secretary............................................... Cecil Murphy

Program Director................................... Chowning Moore

Superintendent of Tickets....................... J. Lacy Burch

Reserved Seats...................................... Franklin House

Head Usher........................................... Charles Priddy, Jr.

Privileges Superintendent........................ Robert Williams

Sideshow Manager................................. J. Russell Teague

Equestrian Director................................ A. Morton Smith

Superintendent of Properties................... Cecil H. Tinsley

Ringstock Superintendent........................ Harold V. Tanner

Superintendent of Lights......................... W. A. Brooks

Producing Clown................................... Joe B. Pettit

Musical Director.................................... C. T. Simmons

Parade Marshall..................................... Lee M. Moody

Transportation....................................... M. W. Gibbs

 

TICKETS

J. Lacy Burch                                    Franklin House

PERFORMERS

Hubert Andrews

Albert Bell

Cleo Bell

Devoe Betts

Christena Blake

Margaret Boyd

Ralph Brewer

Blanche Clements

George Culp

Benge Daniel

Dan Duncan

Glenna Fox

Marjorie Garnett

Almus Hamilton

Tom R. Hickman

Helen Horn

Virgil P. Keel

G. W. King

Pauline McArdle

Si McCollum

Mary Frances Midkiff

Lee M. Moody

Carl Moore, Jr.

Chowning Moore

Palmer B. Morris

Worth Morris

Gerry Murrell

Myrtie Helen Newton

Ward Nott

Frances Overstreet

Retha Pace

Newton Phillips

James B. Piper

Lawrence Priddy

Eugene Robertson

Henry Siebman

A. Morton Smith

Harold V. Tanner

George Tyler

Jack Walker

Margaret Wear

Susie Mae Wilson

Wm. E. Wingert

CLOWNS

Bob Anderson

Ralph Brewer

Emmett Cassady

Robert W. Cooke

Almus Hamilton

Charles Herrmann

Ted Herrmann

Felix M. Johnson, Jr.

Granville Jones

Floyd Kelly

Palmer Morris

Worth Morris

W. Alex Murrell

Ward Nott, Jr.

Hobart Nowell

Sterling Pemberton

Joe B. Pettit

J. B. Saylors

Ed Skelton, Jr.

Jerry Spence

Harold V. Tanner

Wm. E. Wingert

Dr. S. M. Yarbrough

BIG SHOW BAND

Virgil Allred

E. Bomar

C. Brooks

Shearon A. Bryan

F. Flusche

Berry Garner

A. B. Garvin

Allen Gudgell

J. C. Johnson

Arthur Lanford

S. Lester

Adolph Lohmann, Sr.

Adolph Lohmann, Jr.

Nick Mosman

Walter Parnell

Ed Penton

Shive Powers

R. Robberson

W. W. Rike

C. T. Simmons

Donald Thomas

Hurlburt Turner

Orlando Turner

RING STOCK

Harold V. Tanner

Henry Briggs

Cotton Davis

TRAINERS

John Louis Koethe

Alva Shepard

Rebecca Thayer