EVER HEARD GALES of giddy laughter coming from the middle of a crowd? Chances are that the person emitting these sounds is Barb Clark. She is a a walking example of pep and friendliness. In fact, she would be a leading candidate for the peppiest person in school if such an award were available.

Activities that Barbie has participated in include Pep club, Brotherhood society, Chemistry club and student council. Her junior year Barb was secretary of Pep club, and now serves as secretary of Brotherhood society. She was elected to the society in her third year at Maine. This year, her fourth on student council, she is social committee chairman and publicity chairman of Chemistry club.

"My whole life is one big embarrassing moment," discloses Barb. "Rummie and rum‑dum" are her favorite expressions and the sentence "If everybody goes, it will be lots of fun," is fast becoming a trade mark as she seems to say it of everything.

Pizza, garlic bread, slumber parties, Shelly Berman, giggling, coke‑tale parties and seeing everybody come to the school events are among the many things that please this brunette. Pet peeves are few and far between as far as Barb is concerned. After considerable prodding though, she lists hearing kids labeled "grease" and being called "Gabby" by her homeroom teacher as most prominent.

Barb has one obvious weakness‑she can't say no. This ac­counts for the many night Barbie has stayed up through the wee hours making posters, baking cookies, and working on publicity for coming events. Being always willing to help others and genuinely wanting to be of aid has caused Barb to choose nursing as her desired career. She plans to enter Wesley Memorial hospital in preparation for this.

JIM DUVAL, THIS year's student council parlimentarian, and the guy who brought knickers back in style, is one of the boys you might see running out on the football field, with pad and pencil in hand, to ask the star player if he might have an interview.

A transfer from a Chicago school his sophomore year, Jim was surprised to find a suburban school like Maine so large. When asked what he thought of the new Maine West, Jim smiled and replied, "Man, this is really a great school‑the best I've ever seen."

Being one of the friendliest boys around school, Jim feels that it isn't right to say that the student body is made up of cliques. "In my opinion," disclosed Jim, "there is a clique at Maine West but it is made up of the entire student body acting as a whole‑full of spirit the way every school should be."

Although Jim doesn't have many pet peeves, there is one that needs special recognition. This is "people who rap me about my job as parlimentarian."

When questioned about his biggest thrill at Maine, Jim's face became serious as he confided, "Don't think I'm silly, but the biggest thrill for me was when I attended my first pep assembly at Maine and heard the Pep song for the first time. I never imagined that there was that much school spirit in one student body!"

The highlight of Jim's senior year so far has been Nemo Shayne's open‑house, which he considers "one of the best" in his three years at Maine. Jim is planning to attend Lake Forest college with the hopes of majoring in either journalism or law.