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PHOENIX February 7,1974mT %u25a0 %u25a0 la k eN ew sNAMED TO LONG ISLAND REGENTS%u2014Donald F. Othmer, a Columbia Heights resident and distinguished professor of chemical engineering at Polytechnic Institute of New York, has been named a member of the Board of Regents of Long Island College Hospital in Cobble Hill. A native of Nebraska, Dr. Othmer holds more than 100 patnts on chemical manufacturing processes and equipment and has designed plants for numerous corporations. He has been at Poly since 1933, was Honorary Professor at the University of Concepcion in Chile in 1951 and received an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree from the University of Nebraska in 1962.REGENTS WINNERS AT PACKER-Six local residents, students at Packer Collegiate Institute on Joralemon Street, have been named as winners of the New York State Regents Scholarship. They are: Elizabeth Elkmd and Linda Haelters, Brooklyn Heights; Silvia Regina and Katherine Shine, Cobble Hill; and Madeleine Maier and Sarah Woodfin, Park Slope.SERVES AS CONFERENCE CO+CHAIRM AN%u2014Mrs. Arthur Wittenstein, a resident of Henry Street in Brooklyn Heights, is co-chairman of the 1974 annual conference of the United Neighborhood Houses, the city-wide settlement house federation. The March 7 conference will be held at the N.Y. Hilton Hotel and its theme is %u201c Today%u2019s Dilemmas in Human Services%u2014Who Shall Get Them.. .Fund Them... Deliver Them?%u201d Mrs. Wittenstein is board chairman of Colony-South Brooklyn Houses and chairman of New Alliances for Brooklyn, a United Neighborhood Houses effort to forge ties with a wide variety of community service agencies in Brooklyn.HOW DO YOU SPELL AARDVARK?- George Fulton of Cambridge Place in Clinton Hill, a student at Junior Hight School 294 on Adel phi Street, is the winner of the Districtwide Spelling Contest for School District 13, which includes Brooklyn Heights, Fort Greene and adjacent areas. George will represent the local district at the Citywide Championship Finals on March at Madison Square Garden.ROONEY NOMINATES FOR SERVICEACADEMIES%u2014Congressman John Rooneyannounced last week the names of 13 men he has nominated to the military service academies. Among the local residents named are: Gregory Chesnulovitch, 30 Hicks St., a student at Brooklynl j; %u201e u dI U U I II llV fU l I ll%u00a3 jl I S/V/I IW /I, U lIU I \\ ,1 D - 1 on n*,llVSOf 4 . ^ .St., Bishop Loughlin High School, both to the Air Force Academy; William G. Kimball, 107 Oak St., St. Frances Preparatory School, to the U.S. Military Academy; and Jose Figueroa, Jr., 98 Atlantic Ave., Automotive High School, and Christopher A. Kenny, 111 State St., St. Ann%u2019s, to the U.S. Naval Academy.IBM Corporation DonatesVan for Youth CenterFrank Decorato (right) and Tom Leavey (left) remove ribbon from GMC Suburban van that the IBM Corporation has donated to the Brooklyn Heights Youth Center, 406 Atlantic Ave. Decorato is chairman of the Board of the Center, and Leavey is from IBM. The gift came about as the result of efforts by Vincent Rivera, a former member of the center, now on its Board, and George Herzog, another Board member, who were both IBM employees at the time the request was initiated. The van received its first use last weekend when it was used to take the Center's Steel Drum Band to Springvale, Maine, where it performed at Nasson College, under the direction of Barbara Moncure and Julio Vozz. Also on the trip was the Center's photography class, taught by Geoffrey Brooks, which mounted a photo exhibition. (Ann Mandelbaum Photo)78th PrecinctSpeakers SuggestMeditation to SolveCommunity ProblemsBY JOHN BLACKMOREWhen the 78th Precinct Community Council met last week for its monthly meeting, it was treated to an especial event %u2014 a visit by two members of the International Meditation Society.Though at first flash a somewhat unusual choice for the Council%u2019s monthly guest speaker series, which usually includes experts on crime, narcotics and community services, several participants walked away from the meeting with the consciousness that perhaps there are other, subtler ways of facing the day-to-day variety of social problems. The dictum that %u201c know thyself%u201d predicates the solution of problems of man getting on with his brother should not ring hollow to Western ears, a fact brought home by the ever increasing interest in Transcendental Meditation and other contemplative teachings in Brooklyn's neighborhoods and around the world.Arthur %u201c Skip%u201d Crehan, Community Relations Officer for the 78th, headquartered at Bergen and Sixth Ave. caught onto the idea for the presentation after attending a similar one at Berkeley Institute. There he met Marc Berkowitz of President Street, a follower of the teachings of Mararishi Mahesh Yogi, who dispatched two other TM proponents to speak before the Council. Stan Mongin, the Community Council%u2019s president, was impressed with the possibility dial by acquiring a deeper sense ofthought, a better community can develop. Mongin said that the two TM people, John Erhardt of Crown Heights and Anna Carnevale, a visitor from Italy, outlined some of the general tenets of their philosophy, but did not go into the precise mechanics of meditating.Ms. Carnevale said that she wasnlanooH o n n m r Kofm ro frh