Glenelg High School

Traffic was stalled for an hour outside Glenelg High School yesterday morning after a collision involving three cars and a school bus that sent a Woodbine man to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.Howard County police said the accident happened about 7: 20 a.m. on Burnt Woods Road near Sharp Road when an eastbound car was struck from the rear by another car and shoved into the path of a westbound school bus.Police said the bus was carrying no passengers.A traffic report said a Jaguar stopped suddenly on Burnt Woods Road because of congested traffic near the school.

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GLENELG HIGH School has some talented students. Noah Smith proved he is among them by scoring a perfect 800 on the math portion of the Scholastic Assessment Tests.He didn't stop there. He also scored a perfect 800 on the verbal portion of the test. Rare? It's like gold dust. Noah could hardly believe what he saw when he tore open the envelope at his mailbox.He looked again and again and then ran and tripped his way to his house to share the good news. The junior, who took the test May 4, is characteristically modest about his accomplishments, chalking up the perfect 1600 to "a bit of luck."

More than 100 parents and students gathered at Wilde Lake High School in Columbia on Thursday night to learn about how to prevent of cyberbullying and hear details of the Howard County public schools' anti-bullying policy. Thursday's forum was in the works before the Easter Day suicide of a Glenelg High School sophomore who had been bullied online. But experts say the conversation is especially timely given the threat of copy-cat suicides. "Cyberbullying doesn't directly lead to suicide," said Sameer Hinduja, the forum's keynote speaker and co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center.

GLENELG HIGH School continues to produce fine scholars.This year, the school is proud to announce the names of four National Merit Scholarship semifinalists in the 1997 Merit Competition. Gordon Finnigan, Christopher Selmer and Noah Smith, all seniors, are semifinalists. Rachel Yellin, a junior at Glenelg last year who attends Howard Community College, also is a semifinalist.Students become semifinalists by achieving elite scores in the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Exam.Maryland's Higher Education Commission announced that Gordon Finnigan, Luke Reinke, Chris Selmer and Noah Smith are finalists in academic achievement in the Maryland Distinguished Scholar Program.

Glenelg High School's homecoming, scheduled for Saturday, is a school and community celebration. Festivities begin at 12:30 p.m. with a parade led by the award-winning Glenelg High School Marching Unit under the direction of Barry Enzman.Floats extolling the excellence of each class and convertibles carrying homecoming royalty follow. If you've never attended this spectacle, you've missed some local color.The parade marches from the front of the school through a local neighborhood and returns to the school.

If you have a student attending Glenelg High School, you've heard some talk about alternative scheduling. Schools in Howard County and around the country are looking to change traditional high school schedules to meet students' needs.At Glenelg High, an Alternative Scheduling Task Force has been at work reviewing schedules used locally and throughout the country. The Task Force, composed of teachers from all departments in the school, read about various schedules, visited schools using some of these schedules and had phone conversations with teachers and administrators at other schools.

Glenelg High School has established a new partnership with Eyre Bus, Tour & Travel to enable students to learn about running a tour and travel business, including skills such as scheduling, finance, marketing and communications. As part of the partnership, Eyre will offer internships at the company, and its employees will participate in career days and mock interviews. Eyre has also agreed to sponsor events at the school. The 60-year-old Eyre company, in Glenelg, offers charter bus, tour and travel agency services.

YOU COULD learn how different mouthwashes affect bacteria or how much fertilizer a plant needs at the annual Glenelg High School Science Fair. Projects ranged from physics and chemistry to environmental science and microbiology at the Dec. 13 event. Each project was evaluated by three judges, and contestants with the highest averages were declared overall winners. The overall first-place winner was freshman Sarah Mohl. Her project focused on the effects of brain lateralization - the functions of the right and left sides of the brain - on eye-hand coordination.

WHO NEEDS Broadway, when there's such great musical theater in Glenelg?At 8 o'clock tonight, Glenelg High School's drama department will present Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical "Cinderella."Performances will continue at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 3 p.m. Sunday in the school auditorium, 14025 Burnt Woods Road.The production features senior Jenna Bythrow as Cinderella, and junior Brian Rice as Prince Charming.Senior Valerie Barnes and junior Sarah Cummings portray the selfish stepsisters, and senior Annie Marland is the evil stepmother.

Glenelg High School is gearing up for its prom safe-driving events, which include a scheduled visit from NASCAR driver Kurt Busch. School officials said Busch will be a guest speaker at a schoolwide assembly April 23, the start of Glenelg's Prom Safety Week. It is one of several safety-related events that the school is offering throughout the year. Steve Willingham, Glenelg's student resource officer, said Busch is scheduled to talk about the importance of safe driving from his perspective as a professional driver and how speed is a factor in collisions, particularly those involving young people.

Jessica Cooper , of Woodbine, is the recipient of the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Ambassador award, given by the Student Services Department at Glenelg High School. She is being recognized for her leadership skills. Cooper will attend a three-day leadership conference in the spring with other Ambassadors from the state.

Glenelg is a compromise. Situated in western Howard County, the area is ideal for couples who commute to Baltimore or Washington. And it is in the country without the in-the-middle-of-nowhere isolation. "It offers a rural lifestyle within minutes of suburban amenities," says Sharon Keeny, a Realtor who lives in Dayton and is a former president of the Glenelg High School Parent-Teacher-Student Association. Glenelg takes its name from a village in western Scotland. The name is also a language quirk known as a palindrome, meaning it is spelled the same forward and backward.

Superintendent Sydney L. Cousin got a firsthand look at the use of capital funds during a five-school construction tour last week. Cousin was joined by school board members and top-ranking central office personnel. On Wednesday, the group visited Longfellow, Centennial Lane, Clemens Crossings and Worthington elementary schools, and Glenelg High School. Worthington and Clemens Crossing are undergoing systemic renovations. Longfellow, Centennial Lane and Glenelg are amid major addition projects.

The county school system community recently mourned the loss of Melvin Hackett, who had worked as day supervisor for Glenelg High School for 44 years. He died June 17 at age 64. It is believed that Hackett, who had lived in Mount Airy, spent his entire school system career at Glenelg High, school spokeswoman Patti Caplan said. "[Glenelg] was his second home," she said. Day supervisors lead a school's custodial crew during the day, Caplan said. "He was truly the finest building supervisor whom I have worked with in 28 years," Principal Karl Schindler said.

Hip-hop choreographer Honey Rockwell, who has appeared in videos with stars such as Kanye West and Will Smith, will lead a Hip-Hop Master Class Workshop on Saturday and March 9 at Marriotts Ridge High School to benefit the MRHS dance program spring trip. The Saturday workshop, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., is open to students in grades six to eight. The March 9 workshop, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., is open to those of high school age or older. No dance experience is required. The cost is $40 for each workshop, which will be held at the dance studio at Marriotts Ridge, 12100 Woodford Drive, Marriottsville.

Glenelg High School measures its success one student at a time. Monday night at the County Council meeting, however, Principal Jim McGregor was measuring the success of the whole student body.He accepted a plaque from Council President Charles Feaga to honor the school for receiving the first Sportsmanship Cup awarded by the Howard County Board of Education.The cup is given in recognition of the school whose teams have shown high-quality sportsmanship on and off the field. In this first year the cup has been presented, athletic directors and principals at all Howard County high schools voted to give the first Sportsmanship Cup to Glenelg High.

Five students at Glenelg High School were arrested yesterday after an assistant principal caught them using marijuana in the school parking lot, according to Howard County police. Four boys - three age 17 and one age 16 - and a 16-year-old girl were charged as juveniles with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, police said. The boys, from Marriottsville, Woodbine, Sykesville and Mount Airy, and the girl, from Cooksville, were released into their parents' custody. The police officer who is usually posted at Glenelg was voluntarily away from the school while Howard County police investigate his arrest of another student.

Lauren Mundy, a Glenelg High School senior, spends most of her afternoons going on rounds with Dr. Fred Lewis, a Clarksville-based equine veterinarian. They see three to four horses on a typical day, and Mundy applies bandages, checks teeth and confers with Lewis on possible courses of action. Lewis, in turn, is helping Mundy with a research paper on equine metabolic syndrome, a condition that causes his four-legged patients to grow unaccountably overweight. The arrangement, which lets Mundy earn school credit and explore a career path while giving Lewis a valuable helper, is part of a Gifted and Talented Intern/Mentor Program offered at all Howard County high schools.

As part of the Candlelight Concert Series' outreach program, two free concerts by the Enso String Quartet will be offered at two Howard County senior centers Friday. A performance at the Glenwood Senior Center begins at 10:30 a.m, a performance at the Bain Center at 1 p.m. Information: 410-313-7213. Program on teen financial literacy "Sound Cents," a program on teen financial literacy, will be offered from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Glenwood branch library, 2350 Route 97, Cooksville.