Park bench dedicated to Beverly Rohrer
Manhattan Beach Unified School District Superintendent Beverly Rohrer gets cozy on her bench as Manhattan Beach Mayor Mitch Ward dedicates it to her. Photo by Alex Gonzales On Tuesday afternoon, Manhattan Beach Unified School District Superintendent Beverly Rohrer’s face shone as she pushed her grandson through the twists and turns of the playground in Polliwog Park. Kids ran, played and screamed around her, while several feet away roughly 40 people gathered to dedicate a park bench near the playground in honor of the South Bay’s beloved educator, two days before her retirement from a lifelong career in education. “What makes me so excited is I see my students, colleagues, parents, teachers, board members, council members — people from our community,” said a teary-eyed Rohrer. “It really is Manhattan Beach.” Bev Rohrer pushes her grandson Casey Rohrer, a third-grader at Hermosa Valley School, around the playground at Polliwog Park. Photo by Andrea Ruse Rohrer began her 56-year career in education as a teacher with Mira Costa High School and ultimately moved on to become the superintendent of both Manhattan and Redondo Beach’s school districts and interim superintendent of…
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