This eight-page special “circus edition” of “The Ship,” the student newspaper of the Manitowoc Vocational School in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, was published shortly before the school’s indoor circus performed May 4-9, 1942. The paper includes an article about preparations for the show, a short biography of circus school founder Billy Schultz, brief sketches of some of the performers, and the program featuring twenty-two acts. There are also ads from Manitowoc businesses. In the 1930s and 1940s, the Manitowoc Vocational School offered what was termed the world’s only circus “prep” school under the direction of William G. (“Billy”) Schultz, a Manitowoc resident who had performed nationally as a circus acrobat, aerialist, and vaudeville star. Schultz’s student performers appeared at many special events in Manitowoc and throughout the state, and the school presented circus shows in Manitowoc in 1933, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1942, 1946, and 1948. During World War II, some of Shultz’s acts were broken up as a number of students and performers joined the armed forces, but his school continued, and was even featured in an article in the May 16, 1942 Saturday Evening Post, published shortly after this show.