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

Vice President............................................... Mrs. Pauline McArdle

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

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

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

.................................................................... Yancy L. Culp

.................................................................... Ira W. Davis

.................................................................... Mrs. Leone Finnie

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

.................................................................... Virgil P. Keel

.................................................................... Lee M. Moody

.................................................................... Cecil Murphy

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

 

EXECUTIVE AND MECHANICAL STAFFS

 

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

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

Ticket Superintendent............................. William Lewie

Reserved Seat Tickets............................ J. Russell Teague

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

Personnel Superintendent....................... Yancy L. Culp

Police Chief.......................................... W. G. Armstrong

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

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

Lot Superintendent................................. W. Alex Murrell

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

Musical Director.................................... Harold R. McDaniel

Wardrobe Superintendent....................... J. A. Blohm

Boss Carpenter...................................... Leonard Thurman

Transportation Superintendent................ Bert Gibbs

Special Agent........................................ Egbert Thompson

Chief Mechanic..................................... Floyd Garrett

Boss Hostler......................................... Henry Briggs

Legal Adjuster...................................... Cecil Murphy

Medical Department.............................. S. M. Yarbrough, M. D.

Boss Canvasman.................................. J. S. Conoway

Chief Electrician................................... W. A. Brooks

 

TICKET BOX

William Lewie

RESERVED SEAT TICKETS

Robert Myers

 

J. Russell Teague

USHERS AND TICKET TAKERS

Lawrence Gieb

Charles Priddy, Jr.

Felix Hugon

Ray Whittaker

PERFORMERS

Bertha Blake

Weldon Blanton

Lura Brewer

Ralph Brewer

Vern Brewer

Ray Caves

Ray Conley

Jimmy Craig

Yancy L. Culp

Jack Dunman

Leone Finnie

T. J. Finney

Sara F. Garrett

Gerry Griffin

Merlin Harrell

Clyde Haynes

Franklin House

Robert Hurley

Mary Ellen Keel

Virgil P. Keel

Evelyn King

Gilda Lee King

Francis Leach

Tommie Lyman

J. L. Lynch

Pauline McArdle

Dorothy McDaniel

Lee M. Moody

Dan Mowery

Dorothy Murphy

Gerry Murrell

W. Alex Murrell

Bill Ritchie

G. F. Ross

Lorene Saylors

Jimmie Scruggs

Paul Ray Spencer

Carl Stewart

Henri Stone

A. Morton Smith

Margaret Talley

William Thomas

Stan Thomason

George Tyler

Rachel Tyler

Evelyn Welborn

Dorothy Wingert

William Wingert

Winnie Young

CLOWNS

J. F. Boland

Ralph Brewer

Robert Bridges

Frank Cobble

Wayne Collins

Archie Davis

Glenn Davis

Harry Dickerson

W. J. Langston

A. W. McCann

B. F. Mitchell

Sterling Pemberton

Joe B. Pettit, Jr.

Rafe Piper, Jr.

Pete Saunders

J. B. Saylors

Jack Sims

Sam W. Sims

Jerry Spence

Weldon Thomas

Egbert Thompson

Ray Whittaker

S. M. Yarbrough

BIG SHOW BAND

Ed Albeitz

Cecil Bailey

Elmer Blake

Shearon A. Bryan

Kenneth Carson

John A. Cunningham

Archie Davis

D. Farr

Berry Garner

Allen Gudgell

Orbit Homer

J. C. Johnson

Arthur Lanford

Guy Leverett

Ed Penton

Shive Powers

W. W. Rike

B. E. Robinson

Mike Robinson

Percy Sparks

Hurlburt Turner

Orlando Turner

Merle Walling

Robert Westbrook

WARDROBE DEPARTMENT

J. A. Blohm

Mrs. J. A. Blohm

Mrs. Allen King

Mary Frances Midkiff

Mrs. Jim Scruggs

Mrs. Louise Smith

Mrs. Dorothy Teague

Mrs. Wm. Wingert

PROPERTIES AND CANVAS

Ira W. Davis

J. C. Alagood

Benge Daniel

Floyd Garrett

Roy Lee McDaniel

J. S. Conoway

John McIntosh, Jr.

B. L. McKinley, Jr.

Bovell Maniss

Davis Olney

Leo M. Kuehn, Jr.

Jim Scruggs

Sam W. Sims, Jr.

Leonard Thurman

RING STOCK
Henry Briggs                         J. N. McArdle
TRAINER
Henri Stone