European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 9, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Doily Jtimo Grozine the Catcher in the circus by Wes Cook associated David Smith remembers Well tils first performance a Catcher in a High flying circus tra Peze act i missed the last five Trie i had Cotton Mouth so bad i could hardly we had done real Well in but i Mew the last five tricks my opening night in Morris n that was a real humdinger of an he adds with an embarrassed less than two months before his opening night in octo Ber David now was a Junior High school teacher in he had married he College and they were living comfortably in a rented Home with their first then one evening in the late summer o he got a from an old Friend inviting them to a circa performance in nearby the Friend was a flyer with the rape in after us my Friend wild they needed an t did 1 want to shot Al just Lite he inapt i i decided that what i wanted to it meant a drastic change in the family Way of big the trapeze work was not really unnatural for David he had been Active in gymnastics in High school and College and had competed in National Smith is slightly Over 6 feet tall and he has great strength in his hands and developed in hours of practice on the gymnastic horizontal bars and had a Little car that i had built out of plywood and Sheet t borrowed a 16foot trailer from my and we had saved in two years of we just took we ust Cut All sold Alt the furniture and everything Hes recognized As a and As the Ararat shrine circus opened in Kansas recent Lou Zelv Kokh up song nude poses by Jennifer Kerr Amaud press three years gym teacher Lou Zivkovich doffed Bis clothes to become a playgirl Center his wife left his school tried to fire him on the plus the Centrefold shot did bring Haugh res ism Man of the year some television and commercial Friendship with Mae West and a second marriage to a former miss but he says the Rock Smith aerialist demonstrated the skills that won the world Champion designation in Competition in London last its the catchers Job to he in the right spot at the right to make up Smith said of his when the flyer jumps off the Rule he is he cannot change its the catchers Job to nuke whatever changes Are it the trick is done it us limn of u very Little strength i in ii year Tom i it of Iben Ibe More powerful no you the More you keep up in the rather Ihaza the flyer to the be we Are the Only trapeze act to perform both the triple somersault and the triple and these people do the hard things and make them look Beautiful and they Are really Good flyers and it is fun catch ing Smith said his Story is riot i had essential but my wife is the amazing one in the she had absolutely no background in gymnastics and was not really much of an she easily docs doubles and has Beautiful in really proud of a third member of the Smith family is about to enter the Center my is 9 years old and she will be working in the Center ring next year for Aerial she can do things on the single trapeze that no one else in a comparable age bracket can it is comparable to the Cha korbutt4ype thing in a circus sit Smith is known to the audience As Captain circus and to his companions in the circus As professor be cause of his educational he wears a mask throughout his hiding a head of Early but revealing a heavy a warm smile and a Strong in addition to catching the Catcher Smith right spot at the right he flies himself from the highest part of the build ing or tent to ground is the Strong Man in the Cradle trapeze a ind shoots the human Cannon that Dona the do be Fly out it the Canna i prefer to shoot my partner other than he paid and Hes wining to take the Doest life on the Road get tiresome but we have five acres and a Beautiful Home in Oregon near Nice to know but after were Here for a Lime were just As anxious to get Back on the Centrefold on the Grill now hed rather get into show business through an i  pose for another Magazine the 35 year old Apple High school physical Educa Tion its of if its in statues or but when you do it in the it Doest  says he expected mow Public Tat nothing like the disaster that resulted when us  arrived on the a Fuad of Apple a desert town of abet 75 Miles North East it 1 thought there nothing to i had told school a he said in a recent Telephone he received and an enjoyable weekend in Hawaii to pose for the the magazines july Issue came out just As Spring term giving parents the summer to simmer Over pictures showing their sons nude teacher sailing boat and frolicking in the surf and a Story describing How Stu dents discussed sex problems with toe school Board voted to fire he and a three member stale appeals panel agreed in March u7i that he Wai indeed a responsible individual and fit to serve a a teacher in the he could be admonished for a mistake in but not the panel but the school District refused to restore him As Tennis coach and department Zivkovich has filed a suit in san Bernardino Superior court seeking in Bock pay Lor the extra duties taken from the matter will be heard in december or he also has pending a 12million invasion of privacy suit in Angeles Superior court against Pat girl mag he claims the article that accompanied the photo january 1978 was tasteless and the Selery talks about a restless 116 Pound Young nun who played Canadian professional ought off groupies and tried to avoid bar i guess theres going to be a few people in town Bent out of shape about the the Magazine quotes him As but a lot of people have told me they think its great in to promote a healthy Way of Good sex and Good health Are closely related and Good health comes the article did not mention Zivkoviche wife and two his wife was not they were divorced in some of the Centrefold fall ii was exciting for Zivko the publicity from the dismissal hearings brought Calls from to he was on to Tell the actress Mae West got him a screen adore Guild card and a bit As a bartender on the Dick Cavell he also played a crooked health spa attendant in an episode of Mcmillan and he said he has some Small movie parts coming but Doest really want to bean except perhaps in i would like to try something like Public re i like whal in but at oos print in to like la try mme Thuu be said the entire experience really changed my Vich especially us interesting people he has he married one of Sherry last they live by Miles from Apple Valley in but despite the Zivkovich if i had to a it Over i the stars and stripes Page 13