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

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

.................................................................... Mrs. Pauline McArdle

.................................................................... Lee S. Olney

.................................................................... J. Russell Teague

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

 

EXECUTIVE AND MECHANICAL STAFFS

 

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

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

Reserved Seat Tickets............................ Joseph Carroll

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

Personnel Superintendent....................... Carl Kaden

Equestrian Director................................ J. N. McArdle

Boss Property Man................................ Leo M. Kuehn, Jr.

Lot Superintendent................................. Yancy L. Culp

Principal Clown..................................... Joe B. Pettit

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

Wardrobe Mistress................................. Mrs. J. A. Blohm

Boss Carpenter...................................... L. B. Morris

General Superintendent.......................... W. Alex Murrell

Press Agent........................................... Egbert Thompson

Chief Mechanic..................................... Pete Saunders

Boss Billposter...................................... B. L. McKinley

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

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

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

Chief Rigging Man................................ Floyd Garrett

Backyard Superintendent....................... G. R. McKissack

Steward................................................ Leonard Thurman

Commissary.......................................... Bovell Maniss

Front Door Superintendent..................... Lee S. Olney

Program Director................................... A. Morton Smith

TICKET WAGON

Robert Myers

PERFORMERS

Ada Ballew

Charles Brewer

Ralph Brewer

Vern Brewer

Anna Mae Collins

Jimmy Craig

Theresa Cullen

Mildred Culp

Jack Dunman

Leone Finnie

T. J. Finney

Sara Garrett

Dorothy Haney

Franklin House

Carl Kaden

Virgil P. Keel

Evelyn King

Gilda Lee King

Ruth King

Francis Leach

Tommie Lyman

J. L. Lynch

J. Norman McArdle

Pauline McArdle

Roy Lee McDaniel

Carl Moore, Jr.

Dorothy Murphy

Dorothy A. Murphy

Loveta Murphy

Gerry Murrell

Stella Pettit

Billie Lu Purcell

Carrie Reynolds

Bill Ritchie

Jim Scruggs

Jimmie Scruggs

Opal Scruggs

A. Morton Smith

S. G. Staniforth

Carl Stewart

Margaret Talley

Stan Thomason

George Tyler

Evelyn Welborn

Ray Whitaker

Camilla Williams

Claudia Wilson

Buck Wimberly

William Wingert

CLOWNS

Frank Cobble

Wayne Collins

Glenn Davis

Cecil Farr

B. F. Mitchell

Sterling Pemberton

Joe Pettit, Jr.

J. B. Piper

Jerry Piper

Rafe Piper

Pete Saunders

Portis Sims

Egbert Thompson

Dr. S. M. Yarbrough

BIG SHOW BAND

Ed Albeitz

Elmer Blake

William Brooks

Shearon A. Bryan

Kenneth Carson

John A. Cunningham

Archie Davis

C. R. Farr

D. Farr

Melvin Farr

O. G. Farr

A. B. Garvin

Billy Hayes

A. C. Herrmann

O. H. Homer

Harold R. McDaniel

Frank Morris, Jr.

Nick Mosman

Shive Powers

W. W. Rike

J. M. Talley

Hurlburt Turner

Orlando Turner

Charles Van Duker

Ellis Van Duker

Merle Walling

Robert Westbrook

WARDROBE DEPARTMENT

Mrs. J. A. Blohm

Mrs. Yancy Culp

Mrs. Allen King

Elizabeth Maddox

Mrs. Lorene Saylors

Mrs. Paul Siegmund

Mrs. Louise Smith

Eula Wooten

PROPERTIES AND CANVAS

J. C. Alagood

Raymond Burch

E. Dow Clements

J. S. Conoway

Floyd Garrett

C. R. Heath

Buddy Homer

Leo M. Kuehn, Jr.

John McIntosh, Jr.

B. L. McKinley

Bovell Maniss

L. B. Morris

Davis Olney

Foster Renfro

Jack Sims

Sam Sims, Jr.

Leslie Smith

Harry E. Spence

Leonard Thurman

Earl Torbert

Fred Voelker

TRAINER
S. G. Staniforth