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Issue DateStreet%u2022 Six, PHOENIXW 8& S& 8& $^GyselingsDebuts AtGallery 91March 9Rudolf Gyselings of Douglas St. in Boerum Hill will make his formal gallery debut on Friday, March 9, at the Gallery 91 Co-op, 91 Atlantic Ave.The 29-year-old Belgian-born artist who shared first prize for oil painting at last fall%u2019s Brooklyn Heights Promenade Art Show has concentrated on that medium and on pencil drawing since his award of the 1961 Mistier Prize for sculpture from the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts.Gyselings, who came to this country in 1968, also won the honors for oils in the 1969 promenade show and exhibited this October at the Brooklyn Museum Community Gallery.The first regular gallery presentation of the versatile artist, reflects, he says, a development out of impressionism and into abstraction %u2014 with the aim %u201c of creating a free lyrical abstraction like music freely floating in space %u2014 of rearranging disorder in such a way that it is still disordered but controlled.%u201dVoterDriveThe Board of Education and the Board of Elections are uniting in a special registration drive beginning on Monday, March 12. Designed to provide parents ineligible to vote in regular elections, with the possibility of participating in the May 1 community school board vote, all the city elementary schools and all borough board of elections offices will permanently register all those eligible as well.Registration will take place at elementary schools from Monday, March 12, through Friday, March 16, from 8:30 a.m. until 8:30 p.m., and on Saturday, March 17, from noon to 6 p.m. Brooklyn Board of Election offices on 345 Adams St. will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon. Volunteer groups deputized by the board of elections will register voters in spots throughout the school districts. A parent voter who will be registering only for participation in the community board elections must be 18 years of age and a resident of New York City for 30 days. Parent voters must have a child in either an elementary, intermediate or junior high school. A parent whose child attends only a high school or special school must qualify as a permanently registered voter. Though voters may register in any public school, May 1 voting is required in designated spots. Parents living in a district different from the one in which the child attends school mayAnnouncing PHOENIXName-lt-ContestCan You Nam e This Building?* 'Here Are The Easy RulesCan you identify this building? If you know what it is and where it is, you can win a free year%u2019s subscription to the PHOENIX. With this issue, the PHOENIX begins its \Photographs of home, offices, and other buildings in the PHOENIX area%u2014-which includes Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Boerum Hill, Downtown Brooklyn and Park Slope%u2014will be run regularly. First three people correctly identifying the photos will win free subscriptions to the PHOENIX, Brooklyn%u2019s liveliest weekly. Address all replies to Name It Contest, The Phoenix, 132 Clinton St., Brooklyn, N Y. 11201. Sorry, answers received by telephone cannot be accepted. WATCH FOR RESULTS IN NEXT WEEK'S PHOENIX,If You Know Where/ You Can WinPHOENIX NAME-IT-CONTEST132 C linton St. B ro o k ly n , N .Y . 11201vote for the board candidates in the child%u2019s school district. However, even if permanently registered, the parent must then register as a Parent Voter. Parents with children in more than one school district can choose the district. In no case can there be voting in more than one district. Permanently registered voters without children in public schools can also vote. For additional information, call Board of Elections 925-7535 or 226-2207 or Board of Education 596-5367 or 596- 4190.MissionSponsorsThe theme for this year%u2019s, 16th Annual, School of Missions sponsored by the Board of Christian Education of Greenwood Baptist Church, in Park Slope, is %u201c India %u2014 One Sixth of the World%u2019s People.%u201dSessions, according to Mrs. George A. Cosper, Chairman of the Board, will begin 5 p.m. cm Sun., March 11, and will conclude on Sun., April 1, with the 6:30 P.M. Session. Location is Seventh Ave. at Sixth St.There are seminars (classes) for Adults led by Franklin E. Smith, Jr., Chairman, Greenwood%u2019s Board of Deacons; Senior Highs and Young Adults led by Mrs. Jane Leonard and Mrs. Enith Constant; Juliette and Halda Constant will lead the Junior and Junior Highs; and the Primary and Kindergarten leaders are to be Cari Cosper and Mrs. Bessie Hall. These seminars meet from 5:00 to 6:00 P.M. each Sunday of March and the first Sunday of April.Circles of the church%u2019s Women%u2019s Union, under the leadership of Miss Emily Patterson, will assist during the Fellowship Hour from 6 to 6:30 p.m. at which refreshments will be served.On Opening Night at 6:30, a sound color film, %u201c The Cross in the Lotus,%u201d will be shown. March 18, %u201c Life In India%u201d is the subject of Mrs. Beryl Marin, a native of India, President, Women%u2019s Society, Jamaica. Long Island, Baptist Church. Recorded Music of India and colored slides will be part of the program on March 25 presented by The Rev. and Mrs. Earl Philips of Dean Street Baptist Church of Brooklyn. On the final evening there will be an India Festival with native food served and games played plus a sharing of ideas of the congregation with the leaders of the School of Missions.As in the past, an exhibit depicting the history of India, Baptist Work in the country, Religious beliefs and culture will be set up in the Chapel prepared by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Morris Hubbard.Mystery $$Saves KasparThe Chelsea Theater production of %u201c Kaspar,%u201d the Peter Handke play about the power of language to define or %u2014 most often %u2014 substitute for experience, has received a very good word from the outside.Though the play (loosely modeled after a 19th Century youth strangely thrust at 16 into the %u201c civilized%u201d world) received notices comparing it as a theatrical landmark, to Beckett%u2019s %u201c Waiting for Godot,%u201d it was scheduled to end its short run on March 4th.However, at 2 a.m. on March 1, the words from a mysterious caller to Chelsea Artistic Director TimW o rn o t ar-nnratplv rlpfinort h e rfeeling that the show must go on. Identifying herself as %u201c Mrs. Spook,%u201d she promised the money to keep Kaspar running for an extra week. Within a few hours, her words were followed by a messenger with a bank check for $7,000, enough to keep the play on until Sunday, March 11; It%u2019s at the Rrooklvn Academy. For program information call 783-5110.India

