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HEAR SCHOOL PLEANo! S o ys A g n e s P erryTell Board of Ed It'sTime to Build NewHigh School onJ o a n H a n le y S p e a k sA g a in st SiteM a u te e n S lo a n e ,a Jo h n J a y T e a c h e rOld Gas Co. SiteBY CORRINE COLEMANThe Gowanus school site feature at the Board of Education headquarters Tuesday night was not quite a rerun, but rather a revision %u2014 sharper focused now, characters more believable, some cast changes. Perhaps in recognition of the years of labor on the work and growing acceptance of the major theme, this time the presentation got to the central theater.For those who may have forgotten the scenario, the following is a summary: Thepeople of South Brooklyn need a new high school; the sole such public facility in the area having become more and more crowded through the years. The school, John Jay, runs on double session; operates 167 percent beyond capacity.The populace, in agreement about the above, becomes divided however, when a site for a new school is found. The place, called the %u201cgas works,%u201d is located on the West Bank of the borough embarrassment %u2014 the Gowanus Canal. Requiring no displacement of families, since no one lives on the site and close to public transportation, the spot is objected to by dwellers on nearby streets. Added to the reasons for opposition given during early showings, their preference for location of industry on the site, their feelings that subway noises would impair the students%u2019 learning possibilities, the antagonists now are focusing on the dangers of the waterway. Referring to recent chemical findings of concentrations of virulent organisms, they ask, %u201chow can you send children next to such a noxious place.%u201dThe proponents of the site, more numerous than the antagonists and representing more diversified aspects of the South Brooklyn community %u2014 including the distressed John Jay High School students %u2014 have seen their proposition favorably voted on by an early board of school representatives and then reversed by the present %u201cdecentralized%u201d board because of fear of furthering community antagonism.Now the proponents have additional arguments. The industry, the jobs, never came they say, and as a matter of fact, the site has been excluded from an industrial park planned for the area. The alternate sites proposed by the gasworks opponents came to naught, and the only other current suggestion relates to the Atlantic Terminal Area, a project still in limbo after nearly 10 years of planning. They add the new information about the expected closing of three area parochial high schools by the end of the year and remind the opposition that the canal is at last slated for a sewage system, which will begin the process of decontamination. They also question the willingness of residents adjacent to the canal to continue living in a place they find so objectionable for a high school.Father George T. Voiland of St. Mary%u2019s Star of the Sea Church is a new addition to the gas works site. Once opposed to the building of a 4,000-pupil school on the sitfe, he now favors a 1500-2000 student mini-school which would bring %u201ca balance of ethnicity, of race, of languages%u201d to the neighborhood.New elected officials have also come out for the Gowanus school. Representatives of StateAssemblymen Mike Pesce and Steven Solarz and State Senator Carol Bellamy read the officials%u2019 statements in favor of the school. Though no elected officials have been overtly antagonistic districtTEN NEW MEMBERS: The Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, has 10 new members, all Brooklyn residents: Rollin C. Bush, Vice President, First National City Bank; Mrs. Virginia Cantarella, painter; Mrs. Andrew Cooper, Volunteer Director, Community Development Agency, Human Resources Administration; W. Robert Foreman, Head of the Middle School of Poly Prep Country Day School in Bay Ridge; Norman Lustig, president, Consolidated Mutual Insurance Company; Donald E. Moore, executive director, Downtown Brooklyn Development Committee, Inc.; Peter Nagler, management consultant; Theodore Notides, vice president, Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co.; Joseph T. Sharkey, president, The Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh; Dr. Julius Stolfi, vice president for hospital affairs and associate dean for clinical affairs, Downstate MedicalP o n to rABROAD: Martha Corprew, daughter of Mrs.Lucinda Corprew, 234 Sands Street, left today for London, where she will begin a six-month comparative study of Black Theatre in England and Ghana, as part of the 1973 InterFuture project, %u201cInternationalism.%u201d Miss Corprew is a junior at Queens College, CUNY, where she majors in Drama and pursues her interests in photography, yoga and karate.WHO%u2019S WHO: 26 students from Brooklyn, who are attending Long Island University%u2019s Brooklyn Center, have been named for inclusion in the 1973 edition of Who%u2019s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.The annual publication salutes the accomplishments of students in academic studies, as well as for dedicated and distinguished service in extracurricular and community activities.Among those honored are: Thomas Chung of Willoughby St., Roslyn Dixon of Willoughby St., Starr Gurney of Willow St., Christopher Militano of Willoughby St., Kellam Ingram of Willoughby St., Steven Presser of Willoughby St., Lionel Richardson of Willoughby St. and Carmine Cincotta of First PI.FIRST REFORM CLUB TO ENDORSE: The Independent Neighborhood Democrats (IND), a Democratic Reform Club on Court St., voted last week to endorse Jerome Kretchmer, former EPA chief, for mayor. The tally was as follows: Kretchmer, 50 votes; Mario Biaggi, 7; A1 Blumenthal, 7; Herman Badilio, 2; no endorsement, 5.PRESIDENTIAL CHAIRS %u2014 Local institutions of higher education have confirmed one new president and seen the departure of another in recent weeks. Richardson Pratt, Jr., descendant of the family that gave its name to Pratt Institute in Clinton Hill, was named the ninth president of the Institute in January, ending a six-month search by a faculty-student-trustee committee. Last week, Arthur Grad, president of Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, announced his resignation as head of this prestigious institution located in downtown Brooklyn. Grad has been under intense pressure to resign after a recent vote of %u201cno confidence%u201d by the Institute%u2019s faculty.Ellen M ich e n e r A d HocSchool Com m itteeP hillip K a p la n ,Lo cal B o ard C h a irm a n .councilman Thomas Cuite is always out of the picture.A member of the naysaying schoolboard, Chairman PhillipKaplan, now sees little alternative to the canal location. Candidates for new schoolboard elections, like Peter Drago, announced their intentions to run along with their plans for activism in seeking the Gowanus building.And finally, as in the earlier version, the audience is left without a conclusion. This time however, the ultim ate judges heard the case. And as their spokesman said, they took note of the larger numbers for the gas works, the championship by the elected representatives, the great need and the years of waiting. Hoping to come to a decision %u201cwithout bringing about further polarization of the community,%u201d the City School Board will nevertheless %u201c move with alacrity,%u201d they sayM eeting Photos:F ran co is D u m ain eIs a b e l B o y le W a n tstk o C rlin n l Mn