Oakland Mills High

Lively Arts for Little Ones! will present a performance by Milkshake for children ages 2 to 5 and their chaperones at 10 a.m., and 1 p.m. April 7 at The Other Barn in Oakland Mills Village Center. The Interactive music-making show costs $4.50 for children ages 2 and older and adults. Group rates are available. The Other Barn is at 5851 Robert Oliver Place. Information: 410-730-4610. Oakland Mills PTSA planning a benefit The Oakland Mills PTSA is planning a dinner and silent and live auction to help raise money for medical expenses for David Hillen, parent of a student at the school.

The Howard County school board voted unanimously yesterday to reinstate the former athletic director of Oakland Mills High School in Columbia, who was suspended after he was implicated in a grade-changing scandal that forced the football team to forfeit a playoff game and its seven regular-season victories. In making its decision, the school board rejected the recommendation of John R. O'Rourke, then superintendent, that Kenneth O. Hovet Jr., who also coached the football team, be fired.

During a recent ceremony, Todd Colby and James O'Keefe were named Eagle Scouts at a Court of Honor held at the Owen Brown Community Center.The young men also can be proud to be part of BSA Troop 601, which has produced 38 Eagle Scouts. It is sponsored by the Oakland Mills Village Association.Their Scout Leader is Francis "Butch" Colby.Mr. Colby, a Scout since 1985, has been awarded the Order of the Arrow, two World Crests, two Miler Awards and 27 Merit Badges.His Eagle Scout project involved planning, preparing and planting landscaping for Oakland Mills High School's new science greenhouse addition.

OUTSTANDING contributions that benefit home, school, community, country and the world were the criteria met by Jean Haverstick to win Soroptimist International's "Youth Citizenship" award.Ms. Haverstick, a senior at Oakland Mills High School, is one of the two graduating seniors in Maryland to receive the award, which is funded by the Soroptimist Foundation and Soroptimist Foundation of Canada.Scholarship awardOakland Mills High School senior Keri Farmer has been selected the winner of a $2,000.

THE UNITED Nations - what better place is there for high school students to learn firsthand about cultural diversity and the breaking down of cultural stereotypes? That is why about 40 students from the Oakland Mills High School Human Relations Club and the Long Reach High School International Student Organization traveled to New York together to visit the United Nations and Ground Zero. The trip coincided with International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination last month. "We wanted to tie in the dichotomy of the United Nations working toward peace with the tragedy of Sept.

TEACHERS ARE back in school, and students will begin their school year Aug. 25.But only for a few days. On Aug. 29, schools will be closed for the teachers' Professional Work Day, and that means it will be a long weekend, because the next Monday is Labor Day.School will resume Tuesday.There will be new principals and assistant principals at several east Columbia schools this fall.Carl Perkins has been promoted from assistant principal to principal at Oakland Mills High School.Carol May will be his assistant principal.

The long-serving principal of Oakland Mills High School, who acknowledged last week that he is appealing punishment in a grade-changing scandal, has been transferred to the Homewood School as principal of the alternative learning center, Howard County school officials announced yesterday. Marshall Peterson, who presided over the Columbia school for nine years, asked for the move last week, and school officials determined that the reassignment was in the principal's and the school system's best interest, said Superintendent Sydney L. Cousin.

For Ken Hovet, life now is a mixture of relief, anger and anxiety. The 43-year-old former Oakland Mills High School athletic director and football coach got his teaching job and back pay restored by the Howard County school board this week. Today, he is due in Circuit Court, seeking $113,000 in legal fees and damages from his fight to obtain access to documents he needed to prepare a defense against charges that he should be fired in a grade-changing scandal. But important as all that is, there is something more vital to Hovet, a plain-spoken father of three who agreed to be interviewed yesterday in the downtown Washington law office of Thomas R. Bundy III, a 1991 Oakland Mills High graduate who represented Hovet.

The Howard County Diabetes Coalition and the Columbia Association will sponsor "Open House: Diabetes," an information and resource-sharing session, to be held from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Thursday at Supreme Sports Club, 7080 Deepage Drive. Discussion will include facts about diabetes, the role of exercise and nutrition in managing the disease and new developments in care and resources. Light refreshments will be served. Admission is free. Information: 410-381-5355. Stamp gift box workshop to be held in Oakland Mills The Oakland Mills Community Association will sponsor a workshop, "Stamp Gift Boxes with Gina," from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. today at The Other Barn in Oakland Mills Village Center.

CONNECTING SHAPES and creating interesting spaces between them sounds like painting class, but a dance workshop at Oakland Mills High School last week demonstrated that shapes and space are not limited to the art room. About 35 students used their bodies to create dramatic shapes under the tutelage of professional dancer Rebecca Anderson, a former member of the renowned Pilobolus Dance Theatre and current member of Pilobolus TOO, an offshoot dance duet that presents small-scale modern dance performances and programs for schools.