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Page Six PHOENIX June 28,19731I11IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII9IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII millllllHIIIHIllitNIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIlIiSlllR. - %u25a0PROFILEMarvin Focuses LbNYon Local EnvironmentBY KITTY TERJENThe young environmental activist who has taken over the helm of the Citizens for a Better New York (CBNY) says his Brooklynbased environmental group will focus on local problems during his presidency.Ben Marvin, who succeeded Sherry Koehler as president of CBNY last month, outlined the group%u2019s past accomplishments%u2014 including the Recycling Center on Atlantic Ave. and the curbside newspaper pickup%u2014and said the group is now ready to tackle even more specific environmental issues at home.%u201cCBNY is going to oppose the expansion of Long Island College Hospital for environmental reasons,%u201d he said, noting that the hospital, by increasing its facilities, will also increase the amount of liquid waste that is dumped untreated into the Gowanus Canal.%u201cThe Red Hook Sewage Interceptor%u2014in the unlikely event that it is kept on schedule%u2014will not be complete %u2019til 1978, but the hospital%u2019s expansion will be complete in the next two years,%u201d he pointed out. %u201cThe hospital would be creating its own patients, its own business, by dumping more untreated waste into the canal.%u201dSaying that the Community Action Committee, headed by Allen Kone, and the South Brooklyn Interactors, headed by Thornton Willet, base their arguments against expansion ofthe hospital on grounds that the neighborhood will be destroyed, Marvin added that CBNY has entered the hospital controversy on its own initiative and plans to fight the hospital on grounds that the environmental impact of such a large expansion will be disasterous.He said that CBNY will also work with the Ad Hoc Committee on the Gowanus Canal and the South Brooklyn Development Council to clean up the Gowanus.Another local issue CBNY is now tackling is plans to build a large Mobil Oil station in Boerum Hill. The owner of a lot on the corner of Atlantic Ave., Third Ave. and Pacific Ave., now occupied by a small garage and gas station, has applied for a zoning variance to permit the construction of a large gas station on the site Marvin explained.%u201cEight pumps are planned,%u201d he said. %u201cWe%u2019ll be fighting this before the Board of Standards and Appeals on environmental grounds because we think it is in conflict with the goals of the New York City Metropolitan Air Quality Im %u00adplementation Plan.%u201dSince most of the city%u2019s air pollution is caused by cars and trucks, the city%u2019s air plan calls for more mass transit and less auto pollution. %u201cA large gas station like the one planned in Boerum Hill would have the effect of encouraging more cars at a time the state and city are calling for a decrease in auto pollution,%u201d he said.iiiiiiHiiimmiiiiiiimmimiiiiiimiiiimiimiHiiiiiimnin%u201c It%u2019s also strange,%u201d he added, %u201cto build a large station at a time the oil companies are crying gas shortages. If this is true, we ought to be conserving%u2014not wasting%u2014 our resources.%u201dMarvin became an active environmentalist while a student at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He recalled an environmental teach-in held at the campus during Earth Week in 1970 which marked the beginning of his active involvement in environmental issues. %u201cI got into a newspaper collection group,%u201d he said, %u201cand we decided to keep it going 'til the end of the school year. We formed LIFE (Living in aFiner Environment) which carried on another successful newspaper collection project and also cleaned up the banks of a nearby river.%u201dWhen, during his senior year in college, the City of Bowling Green established an Environmental Commission, Marvin was named as a student representative, with official membership and fuli voting privileges on the commission.Marvin, who is originally from Woodmere, L.I., moved to the Heights in January 1972 with his wife. His first job was a temporary one with the federal Environmental Protection Agency. He now works for the Securities and Exchange Commission.PHOENIX Photo by Francois Dumaine%u201cI joined CBNY to keep in touch with environmental issues after I left EPA,%u201d Marvin said.Under Sherry Koehler%u2019s leadership, CBNY%u2019s Recycling Center reached a point where it sells enough recycled materials to pay its own rent and the curbside newspaper pickup experiment has been so successful in South Brooklyn that it will soon be expanded to the rest of the city. Now, Martin feels, CBNY is ready to tackle any local issues with environmental impact and with the same prognosis of success that has marked the group%u2019s previous endeavors.IlHIHIIIIIIIltllllllitllllllllHIIIIIIlHIISIHIIItHinilllllllHIinHIlIlllinnillNIIIIIIIIIIIlttMNIllllUllllllllllllIlevery Saturdayon the SS Rotterdamfrom $265%u00b0%u00b0Rates slightly higherJune 23 - Aug 25Poly Announces GraduatesD r e a m T r a v e la t M a rtin s 501 F ulton S tre e t B ro o k ly n N.Y. 8 7 5 -7 9 0 0Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn has announced the names of students who have received graduate and undergraduate degrees this month.The following area students earned their doctorates: Thomas Kai-Yee, Clark Str, Chemistry; Rosa Oppenheim, Grace Court, Operations Research; and William Gordon, Jr., Clinton Ave., Physics.Sixteen other area students received their Master%u2019s of Science degrees: Suhas Trimbak Chitnis, Adams St., Civil Engn.; John J. Clark, Columbia Heights, Transportation Planning; KazunoriHanda, Montague St., Electrical Engn.; Eispeth Burke Hart, Hicks St., History of Science; Kamal Dev Singh Jamwal, Joralemon St., Mechanical Engn.; Jason Ching Ping Lee, Duffield St., Electrical Engn; Marasimhan Narayan Mudambi, Henry St., Metallurgical Engn; Djordie S. Paunovic, Montague St., Electrical Engn; Jean Pinchinat, Willoughby St., Management; Charles T. Schauss, Jay St., Management; Basil C. Stephanis, Montague Str, Transportation Planning; Arun Madhav Virginkar, Montague Str, Electrical Engn; Shih-Cheng Chang, Washington Ave., Electhe potters%u2019 workshop114 Montague St. tel 624-4817'Register Now\Summer classes start July 9thmiiiiHimiiniiHmiiiiiiBiuiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiuiiiiimmimisiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHim1 P A R K S L O P E C O M M U N I T Y S C H O O L . ISUMMER PROGRACtfflFT5 HNO TH ies, PJJJ5 ftN OF%u00a3N - cu)S5Roo(r, e%P%u00a3&\\%u00a3Hcs for chicprenPHpES 3 -to <4EFtRS2 Week Sessions Available $35%u00b0%u00b0 PER WEEKI June 25- June July 6 July 23- August 3| July 9- July 20 * August 6- August 171FOR IN R D R m m O N : CRLL 789-8006 iniiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiisiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigmuiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiimiiiiiiiHimiimiiiiiinHiimiiiiiiiiiWitrical Engn; Nitin Harjivandas, Adelphi Str, Systems Engn; Oyuko Onyango Mbeehe, Clinton Ave., Transportation Planning; and Frank A. Amodeo, Carroll Str, Systems Engn.Several area residents received their B.S. degrees: Joanne Ameen, Amity Str, Systems Engn; Simo Bergado, Bridge Str, Chemical Engn; Samiresh Bose, Montague Str, Electrical Engn, Surama Cum Laude; Alphonse Go Chung Bunsu, Ashland PL, Electrical Engn; Joseph Carusso III, Sidney PL, Systems Engn; Duksoo Chun, Pierrepont Str, Chemical Engn; Nicholas Marzella, Front Str, Systems Engn; Gary Nye, Sidney PL, Civil Engn; Ka Ho Ong, Ashland PL, Mechanical Engn; Ashok Perekh, Montague Str, Mechanical Engn; Gerald Scheibner, Sidney PL, Chemical Engn; Thomas Sedlack, Front St., Chemical Engn.Additional B.S. recipiants are Clifford McArtey, Willoughby Ave., Mechanical Engn; William J. Bendick, 11th Str, Electrical Engn; Thomas Provenzano, 6th Ave., Systems Engn; Frank Zurica, 5th Str, Mechanical Engn; George Ajjan, 8th Ave., Mathematics, Robert Petito, Douglass Ave., Electrical Engn; Frank Amodeo, Carroll Str.,Systems Engn; Michael A. Cerrato, President Str., Pre-Med; John T. Grillo, First Str., Electrical Engn; Marianne A. Musella, Clinton Str., Chemical Engn; Margaret Wallace, and Second PI, Social Science.200 Tons of Paper Recycled LocallyOver 200 tons of newsprint have been recycled by residents of South Brooklyn through their par-1 ticipation in the Environmental Protection A d m in istratio n %u2019s newspaper recycling program, the EPA announced this week.Under the newspaper recycling program, residents of Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, Red Hook, and parts of Fort Greene and Park Slope bring out their newspapers when they bring out their garbage. The area receives Sanitation collection six days a week (except Sundays and holidays) Newspapers tied in secure bundles! are placed in racks under the collection trucks by the Depart-1 ment of Sanitation.The newspaper recycling program in South Brooklyn began last September and was expanded in January of 1973.%u00a3 C i r * H JAX/Y YIC CI J UAm -Handcrafted Jewelry, Custom and Readymade Other Art and Craft WorkWed. thru Sat.12 ^ ^t 834-0764 or by appointment J)219 Court Street