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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

Vice President............................................... Cecil Murphy

Secretary-Treasurer....................................... J. L. Webb

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

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

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

.................................................................... Dorothy Scott

.................................................................... George J. Carroll

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

.................................................................... M. Voncille Liddell

.................................................................... W. Alex Murrell

 

EXECUTIVE AND MECHANICAL STAFF

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Superintendent of Properties................... Ira W. Davis

Ringstock Superintendent........................ W. Alex Murrell

Superintendent of Lights......................... James B. Piper

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

Musical Director.................................... Shearon A. Bryan

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

Wardrobe Mistress................................. Dorothy Scott

Carpenter.............................................. Ben Leach

Backyard Superintendent........................ George J. Carroll

Superintendent of Makeup...................... Ouida Walker

Mechanic.............................................. E. W. Greer

 

TICKETS

J. Lacy Burch                                    Franklin House

PERFORMERS

Hubert Andrews

Shirley Andrews

Albert Bell

Ora Ellen Bell

Devoe Betts

Bertha Blake

Christena Blake

Ralph Brewer

Vern Brewer

Ray Conley

William Cullen

Benge Daniel

Jake Dunman

Priscilla Ellis

Thomas Harris

Robert E. Joiner

Chick Johnson

Mrs. Chick Johnson

Mary Ellen Keel

Virgil P. Keel

G. W. King

Francis Leach

J. L. Lynch

Pauline McArdle

Si McCollum

Carl Moore, Jr.

Palmer B. Morris

Worth Morris

Alice Marie Murrell

Eloise Murrell

Floy Murrell

Louisa Murrell

Gerry Murrell

Willie Nesmith

Martha Nott

Noble Osburn

Newton Phillips

Bill Ritchie

Jimmie Scruggs

A. Morton Smith

William Thomas

Dorothy Turner

George Tyler

Robert Williams

William Wingert

Winnie Young

CLOWNS

Bob Anderson

Ralph Brewer

Wayne Collins

Ray Conley

Ted Herrmann

Felix Johnson

Mary Ellen Keel

Floyd Kelly

W. J. Langston

B. F. Mitchell

Palmer Morris

Worth Morris

Dan Mowery

Hobart Nowell

Sterling Pemberton

Joe B. Pettit

Rafe I. Piper

J. B. Saylors

Jerry Spence

Egbert Thompson

Dr. S. M. Yarbrough

BIG SHOW BAND

Ed Albeitz

E. Bomar

Shearon A. Bryan

Kenneth Carson

D. Farr

Berry Garner

Allen Gudgell

J. C. Johnson

Arthur Lanford

S. Lester

Adolph Lohmann, Sr.

Adolph Lohmann, Jr.

Nick Mosman

Ed Penton

Shive Powers

W. W. Rike

R. Robertson

Hurlburt Turner

Orlando Turner

Merle Walling

RING STOCK

W. Alex Murrell

Henry Briggs

Cotton Davis

TRAINERS

John Louis Koethe

Alva Shepard

Rebecca Thayer

William Wingert