Toby Circus Ballantine

 

Toby Circus Ballantine, son of Ringling clown, artist, author, and dean of Clown College, Bill Ballantine, photographed by Marc Hauser in 1981 on what I assume is a Shrine date.

Trey Key

 

Here is Trey Key performing a Barnum's Animal Crackers walk around when he was a student in the Ringling Clown College class of 1990.

Trey performed as a clown on Kelly Miller Circus and has owned Culpepper Merriweather Circus for many years. 

Otto Griebling

 

Otto, photographed at the Boston Garden in 1955 by P. Tharp.

Happy Lou Year!

Here's wishing everyone a wonderful, laughter filled 2025!

 

Lou Jacobs

 

I have never seen this photo of Lou before, but it is pretty darned awesome. 

Grock Artwork

Grock- Taquineries 1997

Grock- Le Petit Violon Enchanté 1994

Two wonderful pieces of art from Laurent Diercksen, who wrote the 1999 book, "Grock: An Extraordinary Destiny". 

 

Rie "Elizabeth" Sekine

 

Rie Sekine, a graduate of the Clown College Japan class of 1990 and the only CCJ grad to perform on the American Ringling show (Blue Unit 1999-2000 and Red Unit 2002-2004) with her husband, Steve Lough.