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16 Pages Today
Vol. 65 - No. 36
TRYON. N. C. 28782
MONDAY, MARCH 23,1992
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The weather Thursday, high
68, low 47, hum. 50 percent,
and by 7 a.m. Friday .32 inches
of rain had fallen.
Addelle Thompson became
the first resident of Tryon
Estates in Columbus last
Thursday.
Originally from Washington,
D.C., she was living in Hender
sonville. More residents are
expected to move in this week
as Tryon Estates becomes Polk
County's newest, fastest grow
ing residential community
overnight.
In other news: Callers
responded to the series of post
office photographs run in the
Bulletin last Thursday. They
correctly surmised that the
community photographer sim
ply wanted to show that Tryon
Post Office does not display its
zip code - for what it's worth.
What's happening:
The Tryon Merchants Asso
ciation will hold an organiza
tional meeting Tuesday at 5:30
at The Village Restaurant.
The Lake Lure Republican
Women's Club will hold a
luncheon and fashion show
Wednesday, 11:30 a.m. at Bald
Mountain Country Club in the
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Hendersonville
Radiology Group
To Serve St. Luke's
St. Luke's Hospital will con
tract with Hendersonville
Radiology Consultants begin
ning May 1 to replace radiolo
gist Dr. Rick Gentry, who is
moving the end of April.
In return for radiology ser
vices, the hospital has agreed to
purchase $20,000 of tele
radiology equipment to transfer
CT and ultrasound images to
them, reported hospital presi
dent Thomas Bradshaw.
However, chief of medical
staff Dr. Brad Whitney ques
tioned the cost of such equip
ment in the face of hospital
financial problems when there
is no guarantee Hendersonville
Radiology Consultants will stay
more than a year or two.
In addition, tele-radiology
equipment can only transmit
60% of X-rays, Dr. Whitney
pointed out. That leaves 40%
that will not transmit.
"Dr. Gentry always comes
down (to the hospital). Will
they be willing to come for a
C-Spine at 2 a.m.? I don't want
any frustrating situations," he
cautioned.
In such circumstances, one of
the radiologists would have to
come to St. Luke's under the
agreement of the contract,
Bradshaw said.
Local resident and radiologist
Dr. Bill Spencer will be joining
Hendersonville Radiology
Consultants and he lives right
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8th Graders Soon
To Choose A Major
In the next few weeks, Polk
County's rising 9th graders will
choose more than their fresh
man year course schedule.
They'll begin choosing their
future. These students will
decide which educational plan
they think they want to follow
through high school:
* College Prep;
* Applied Academics (techni
cal skills and academic skills
needed to pursue a job-oriented
associate degree);
* or "Occu-Prep" (occupa
tional preparation for excep
tional students to seek jobs right
out of high school).
The students also will indicate
what they're thinking of doing
after high school graduation:
Seeking higher education? If so
how much and what type?
Military service? Employment?
Something else? Undecided?
Like college freshmen, they
will designate a "major" course
interest or preferred focus of
study.
For the college prep student
the interest could be language
arts or communications, math,
science, social science, or a
combination of these.
The Applied Academics stu-
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dent's choices are Business
Education; Health/Human Ser
vices; or Trade and Industry.
The Occu-Prep student can
concentrate in cither Custo-
dial/Building and Grounds; or
Home/Health Care. (More
detail on these two areas will
follow in the series).
"Every student will have a
major in high school around his
interest," said Dr. Willard Dag-
get, the nationally known con
sultant helping Polk design an
Outcome Based Curriculum.
''Let them study what they want
in depth, the technical reading
and writing in that interest."
Each student will have an
advisor to counsel him in these
decisions. Once the OBE curri
culum is established in the
middles grades, middle grade
students will have the same
advisor from 6th through Sth
grade.
Each high school student also
will have a teacher "advocate",
a sort of mentor who will work
with him through high school,
advise him, counsel him and
meet with him regularly.
The new courses will empha
size not so much content and
data as process and skill, said
David Williams, assistant prin
cipal at Polk Central and Direc
tor of the N.C. Center for
Teaching Thinking.
Following is a look at some of
those courses:
* Communication Skills I
replaces English I. This will
still be a broad survey course
but more emphasis will be put
on reading, writing, speaking
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