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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....................................................... Roy A. Stamps

Vice-President............................................... Joe M. Leonard

Secretary-Treasurer....................................... Gideon D. Bell

Directors....................................................... Frank X. Schad

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

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

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

.................................................................... B. Arthur Dillard

.................................................................... Roy P. Wilson

.................................................................... Portis M. Sims

.................................................................... T. Harold Chaffin

.................................................................... Charles B. Stringer

 

EXECUTIVE AND MECHANICAL STAFFS

 

General Manager.................................... Roy A. Stamps

Assistant Manager and General Agent....... Joe M. Leonard

Secretary-Treasurer................................ Gideon D. Bell

Legal Adjuster........................................ Frank X. Schad

Superintendent of Transportation............. Charles B. Stringer

Reserve Seat Ticket Superintendent......... T. Harold Chaffin

Front Door Superintendent...................... Roy P. Wilson

Equestrian Director................................. Roy A. Stamps

Program Director and Announcer............. A. Morton Smith

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

General Press Representative................... Cecil H. Tinsley

Musical Director..................................... John W. Nay

Public Address System............................ G. L. Mitchell

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

Lot Superintendent and 24-hour Man....... Verne Brewer

Backyard Superintendent......................... C. C. Patterson

Ring Stock Superintendent....................... Portis M. Sims

Wardrobe Superintendent........................ Jane Harris

Assistant Wardrobe Superintendent.......... Mrs. J. D. Stephens

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

Boss Canvasman.................................... Paul McGehee

Chief Mechanic...................................... Foster Renfro

Head Usher............................................ Lee S. Reese

Producing Clown.................................... J. B. Saylors

Boss Hostler.......................................... Henry Skaggs

Steward................................................. O. P. Ryan

TICKET WAGON

G. D. Bell

Anton J. Fipp

Paul Schad

J. Ancil Smoot

FRONT DOOR

Roy P. Wilson

Albert S. Brient

B. Arthur Dillard

Cecil H. Tinsley

RESERVED SEAT TICKETS

T. Harold Chaffin

William Blanton

J. Lacy Burch

J. Robert Evans

Jimmy Storms

USHERS AND TICKET TAKERS

Frank Aldridge, Jr.

Lew Allen

Allan Barksdale

Hal Brooks

Charles Caulfield

Fred Caulfield

Dean Copeland

Dan Couch

Howard Cribley

George Glenn Davis

Sylvan Davis

James Dodson

Elmo Faubion

Berry Garner

E. B. Harris

Kenneth E. Heath

Haskell Hunter

Douglas McCann

Frederick Mauldin

Robert Mauldin

Charles Moody

Charles O'Neal

A. L. Parker

Ray Patterson

Kenneth Perkins

Lee E. Reese

Lloyd Roane

Pat Sparks

Bradley Spires

Burch Spires

R. F. Spires

Wayne Truitt

Frasher Westbrook

William Westbrook

Hubert White

Lacy Wheeler

Jack Wiess

PERFORMERS

William Blanton

Vern Brewer

Dorothea Cox

Mabel Cunningham

Catherine Fischer

Margie Fischer

Juanita Hall

Koleta Hall

Elsie Harrell

Creighton Hatfield

Darleen Hatfield

Jimmy Haynes

Annabelle Hull

Mary Jeanne Hull

Carl Kaden

Ernestine Kaps

Imogene Kaps

Mauris Lucas

Luther McCollum

George McCutcheon

Virda McGehee

Gerry Murrell

W. Alex Murrell

Doris Marie Norman

Gloria Wanda Norman

Marcella Pagel

Bill Ritchie

Helen Ryan

Jane Sims

Portis M. Sims

A. Morton Smith

Roy A. Stamps

J. D. Stephens

Perry Stephens

Terry Stephens

CLOWNS

Sam J. Beattie

James R. Cunningham

Humes Hogue

Robert Jordan

Jimmy Kaden

Herbert Kaps, Jr.

Bill Kemplin

Harry Lewis

Jack Lewis

A. W. McCann

Albert A. Marx

Ted Norman, Jr.

Billy Patterson

J. B. Piper

Richard Renfro

J. Benny Saylors

Dan M. Smith

James A. Smith

Jerry G. Smith

Raymond Van Duker

A. W. Wells

Cad Wingert

William Wingert

Betty Yarbrough

S. M. Yarbrough

BIG SHOW BAND

William Brooks

Charles Buchanan

Donovan Clack

Robert Collins

Irving Findley

Paul Giraudin

Charles Greenwood

A. C. Herrman, Jr.

William Hughes

J. C. Jones

Van Gene Kaden

Pat Leonard

Adolph Lohmann

Cecil Lohn

Clark McPherson

Keith Merick

William Micks

John W. Nay

William F. Powell

Doris Saylors

Geraldine Saylors

Tommy Talley

William Tanner

Terrence Wyatt

William Wiess

WARDROBE DEPARTMENT

Mrs. Sam Beattie

Mrs. Maudora Bell

Mrs. Willie Cox

Jane Harris

Mrs. Hallie Hatfield

Mrs. Vera Kaps

Mrs. Florence McCollum

Mrs. Ruth Norman

Mrs. Ethyle Ryan

Mrs. Lorene Saylors

Mrs. Mary Sims

Mrs. Louise Smith

Mrs. Rita Stamps

Mrs. J. D. Stephens

Mrs. Eloise Yarbrough

BACKYARD

C. C. Patterson

Charles Fischer

C. C. McCorkle

PROPERTIES AND CANVAS

Derow Adkins

Woodrow Adkins

Kermit Baker

R. D. Baker

Luther Bentley

William Bentley

Vern Brewer

Emmett Cameron

Buster Kerr

Weldon Kerr

Albert McGehee

Elbert McGehee

Paul McGehee

Ted Norman

I. M. Rushing

Foster Renfro

Jack Sims

Cecil Wilson

Odus Wilson

RING STOCK

Ed Beck

Ernest Beck

H. Greever Gray

James Rowland

Portis M. Sims

Calvin Skaggs

Henry Skaggs

McC. H. Wilson

TRAINERS

Arthur Henry

 

Marie Henry