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Page Two, PHOENIXGALASSI WINS FELLOWSHIP: Dr. Frank Galassi, a resident of the Heights, has been awarded a fellowship under The National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D.C. and will spend a year pursuing research in American theater, proposing to explore the relationship of American politics and social interaction and the output of American dramatists. Beginning as an actor and singer, Galassi is now an Assistant Professor in the Theater Department of Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University, where he has initiated courses in the correlation between politics and theater. He has published articles related to political satire and history.Mrs. Richard C. Yancey, of Brooklyn Heights, former president of the Junior League of Brooklyn and an active civic leader, is the new chairman of the 100- year-old City Hospital Visiting Committee of the United Hospital Fund of New York. A member of the Board of Directors of the Brooklyn Kindergarten Society, Mrs. Yancey also is vice president and chairman of its Education Committee. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Brooklyn Heights Association and of its Heights-Hill Community Council, an organization concerned with problems of aging in the community.M cD erm ott G alassiTERRIER ACE: Dennis McDermott, the 6%u20197%u201d junior forward for St. Francis College, finished up the 1972-73 cage season in grand style. He hit a career high of 40 points against Navy on March 3, upping his total of the year to 578 points %u2014 and 1007 for his varsity career. Only a junior, he has still another year to go. McDermott%u2019s 24.1 per game scoring average ranks him among the top 25 nationally this season.%u2022 %u2022 %u2022 %u2022 %u2022 %u2022 %u2022 %u2022 %u2022 %u2022Another Canarsie InSchool District 15 ?BY CORRINE COLEMANThreats of %u201cAnother Canarsie!%u201d, that latest urban war cry, blasted through the District 15 battleground at last week%u2019s initial confrontation among contenders for community school board posts at stake in May 1 elections.South Brooklyn%u2019s militants, the anti-Gowanus High school site cadre, gave fair warning of a disaster similar to that other Brooklyn holocaust even before the final decision to turn the first shovel of dirt on the gas works ground.Unharried by the admonition, the majority of new seekers for rule over the district%u2019s 25 schools, emphasized their championship of the nine and a half acres on the Gowanus Canal, for placement of the teenage learning center at the first of a series of candidates forums on March 8 at the Dist. 15 offices on Smith St.As a matter of fact, that very centra! issue, which was called a %u201cpolitical%u201d entrapment, when a statement of each candidate%u2019sposition on the site was asked for by Assemblyman Mike Pesce, clearly separated the old linerr from the new, the potentially daring from the adherents to the status quo, and indeed, more effectively zeroed them into types, than did any answers given to the seemingly more relevant questions on educational specifics.The Gowanus H. S. question, long hovering over the South Brooklyn scene, seems to have become a legitimate indicator of allegiances, since a majority of the district%u2019s parents and children have expressed their desire for a building on the Gowanus site to relieve the continued overcrowding of John Jay H. S. (the one such public facility in Dist. 15). When all but one of the seven members of the current board seeking a second term, still reject the location, never having agreed on another place for a district H. S., their willingness to be swayed by a small but threatening contingent (all of whom live in the area bordering the site) says more than any description of curriculum additions that they obtained.The current board members whoarc running again still state their opposition to the Gowanus site except for Emil Giordano who admits that no substitute has yet been found. President of the Board, Phillip Kaplan, who spoke for the gas works at a recent Board of Education meeting, reversed his position in the meeting once again and placed himself among the opponents of the site where he stood two years ago, the time of the board%u2019s original %u201cno%u201d vote.Of the new aspirants, candidates Mary El-Khouri, Peter Drago, John Flanagan, Richard Leotta, Robert McNeill, Ellen Michener, Carmen Miniz, M Romeo and Ann Shelton came out for the Gowanus school. Teacher candidate William Hunter gave a qualified yes, while Betty Ralph of Red Hook claimed along with second teacher, Bert Schuman, not to know enough about the high school question. Candidates Tuffy Sanchez and Alberto Cruise were not present, and their stand on the issue is expected to be sought at the next such get together, scheduled for March 20 at P.S. 230, at Albemarle and Dahill Roads.LeoneAnnouncesBorough President Leone . takes his message to the Brooklyn Bridge as part of kick-off ceremonies in his drive for election to a fullterm as Brooklyn Borough President. To date, his challengers inclu d e : Councilwoman-at-Large Ruth Lerner and Assemblyman Stephen Solarz.BROOKLYNargesT CITY IN MfiWCfcSIBASTIAH lEO H t^ oucsh PRESIDENTISRAEL EXCHANGE STUDENT. Betty Rabinowitz is currently attending classes for two weeks at Packer Collegiate Institute, as part of an Israeli private schools program set up to compare the life styles of teen-agers in the two countries. A year ago a group of Packer students, led by a faculty member, visited Israel on a similar mission. Miss Rabinowitz is a native of South Africa who moved to Israel in 1961 and now lives in Haifa. The 16-year-old Israeli finds the relaxed interchange between students and teachers at Packer otie of the outstanding differences in the two cultures.During her two weeks in Brooklyn, Miss Rabinowitz is the guest of the Woodfin family, 633 Second Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn.9MAKOS NAMED AT METHODIST %u2014 James Makos, 29, has been appointed Assistant Administrator at The Methodist Hospital of Brooklyn, effective immtrtuictttrij. n c tunica i>u ificuiuuiai> uGiu a u ~ %u201e r WIC v u iic g c u>New Rochelle, New Rochelle, N.Y. where he was Assistant to the President and holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Long Island University, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Iona College. He is a member of the advisory board of Community Leadership Consortium which includes five area colleges.VCuiteOpens HQsCOMMUNITY ACTION CENTER DEBUTS: City Council Majority Leader Thomas J. Cuite welcomes area residents at ceremonies to mark the opening of the newly-established Community Action Center, 315 Court St. Mr. Cuite set up the center for people living in Cobble Hill, Gowanus, Red Hook and upper Park Slope %u2014 to give them a central location where they could visit and discuss community problems with various public officials.