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10 THE TRIBUNE/LEADER - December 16 - December 22, 2010 828.645.5009 Carol Talbot, left, gives one of her final lessons at NBMS to Jake Baker.


By Matt Tate Science comes easy to Carol Tal-


bot after spending 46 years teach- ing the subject to eighth graders. One recent math equation,


though, nearly boggled her mind. As she sets for retirement fol-


lowing her 23 years at North Buncombe Middle School, Talbot estimated she has educated about 3,500 North Buncombe kids. “I about fainted when I started


doing the math,” she said with a laugh. Talbot’s last day will be the end of the fall semester. She said the


ending will be bittersweet. “[North Buncombe Middle] is a


great school. I am going to miss it. I am going to miss the kids,” she said. Talbot’s teaching career began


in Duval County, Florida. She spent exactly half of her career in the Sunshine State before relocat- ing to the Western North Carolina area she visited as a teenager and taking a position at NBMS. Talbot, 66, never thought she


would spend almost five decades as an educator. “I didn’t think about retiring. I just thought about teaching,” she


remarked. At NBMS, Talbot has been a


tennis coach for five years and an active leader in the school’s Beta Club for 22 years. She plans to continue her activities with the Beta Club in retirement. She also said spending more


time on her music, sleeping past 7 am and hobnobbing with her dog are at the top of her retirement plans list. Among her accomplishments


at NBMS, she was the Buncombe County Schools Science Teacher of the Year and the N.C. Earth Sci- ence Teacher of the Year in 1994.


BCS offers personalized contact With the exception of true emergency calls that go to every contact number on file, parents of Buncombe


County School students are now able to choose how to receive notifications from individual schools and from the school system’s central office. Parents can now go online to set up their own personal contact manager account, then choose to have


various types of alerts sent in different ways. For example, parents can choose to opt out of weather calls, or have them sent as text messages. Tey can have calls from the principal sent to one or multiple phone numbers and not another, select email options, etc. Complete instructions can be found on the Buncombe County Schools website at buncombe.k12.nc.us.


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