Char Freeman stands 5' 7", has blue eyes and brown hair, and is captain of the Pom‑Pon Squad. She was chosen as a member of the squad at the end of her sophomore year and captain at the beginning of her senior year.

When asked about her pet peeve, she said it was "conceited and unfriendly people." Char likes practically everything about Maine, "especially the teachers and kids." She feels Maine has "one of the best educational systems around."

Besides her courses, "Sam" is kept busy with the Pom‑Pon Squad, V‑Show, National Thespian Society, National Honor Society, Senior Leaders, Pep Council, and Spirit Senate.

One of Char's favorite hobbies is dancing. Because of her knowledge of dance, she is the choreographer of this year's V‑Show. She has studied dance since she was in the seventh grade.

"Participate in as many extra‑curricular activities as you can and still work for good grades" is Char's advice to students.

Char plans to go to the University of Illinois to study elementary education when she graduates. "Before I go into teaching, I'd like to travel as much as I can."

When asked about her most embarrassing moment, she just blushed and said, "I have so many, I just can't begin to describe them. I'm known as the 'big joke' of Maine West."

Char claims that one of the most embarrassing things happened to her while she was a counselor at a summer camp in Wisconsin, but she refused to tell what it was.

"The school spirit is the greatest it's ever been, but there's always room for improvement. I think we're on our way to make it tops," she commented. Char also thinks that a fieldhouse would be a great improvement to the school. She thinks that more of the "kids" should come out and support the teams.

Char's courses include college trigonometry and analytic geometry, English IVA.P., French IV, and law and government. She has no favorite subject; she "likes 'em all."

If at any time during your wanderings, you see a young man, about 5' 7" tall, with green eyes and curly, brown hair, wearing glasses and a rug, you know that it's "Poncho de Pinna." At all other times this creature is known as Curt Hayward, one of this week's personalities. Actually, it's not a rug, but as his nickname implies, it's a colorful, wooly, Mexican Poncho that Curt has taken to wearing when he's not in school. The attachment Curt has for the Poncho is, in his words, "sort of like the security Linus feels with his blanket."

Curt is a very serious music student. He is a classical pianist and plays the string bass in concert orchestra. He has played in many piano recitals and participated in a piano workshop at Northwestern. For the last two years he has gone to Districts in orchestra competition.

Although he is an active musician, the thing that he considers to be his greatest achievement has nothing to do with music. This achievement is "being sophomore and senior ping‑pong champion. In order to accomplish this feat," he commented, "I had to play two people one in each class."

Curt portrayed Mr. de Pinna in the Senior Class play, You Can't Take It With You, and considers this one of his greatest experiences. Also, one of his funniest incidents occurred during the play. He said, "During the week that we were giving homeroom performances, each day after we had gotten into our costumes, I, in my toga and gym shoes, would walk around the ball pretending to be a visiting foreign ambassador. A couple of the other guys in the cast would pretend to be my bodyguards and interpreter. They'd ask me questions just as if I were some important foreign visitor. You should see the strange looks we got from the people in the hall."

Curt has two favorite foods and two pet peeves. As far as food is concerned, he enjoys munching on Kadota figs and sipping Hawaiian Punch. His pet peeves are girls who smoke, "unless they smoke cigars," and "seeing the halls littered with paper and candy wrappers."

So the next time you are about to throw down that candy wrapper or scrap of paper in the hail, remember‑the eyes of de Pinna may be upon you.