11 escape house on fire; arson suspected

HARWOOD -- Four adults and seven children escaped from a burning one-story, wood-frame house early yesterday in a fire investigators are labeling suspicious.

The fire in the 800 block of Harwood Road was reported about 2:44 a.m., said Lt. Robert H. Kornmann of the Anne Arundel County Fire Department.

30-year educator named superintendent

WESTMINSTER

WESTMINSTER -- Brian Lockard, a Westminster native and second-generation educator, was appointed the new superintendent of Carroll County public schools yesterday.

Dr. Lockard has held the system's second-highest post as deputy superintendent since 1987. He has been an educator for almost 30 years, virtually all of it in Carroll schools.

He begins his new position tomorrow.

His longtime colleague and mentor, Superintendent R. Edward Shilling, retires today after seven years in the post.

Dr. Lockard will earn $116,000 for the 1994-1995 school year, plus $4,640 toward his contribution to the Maryland State Retirement System.