NEWPORT BEACH : Educator Elected to Head School Board

By LISA MASCARO

Dec. 18, 1991 12 AM PT

Longtime educator Forrest Werner has taken the helm of the Board of Trustees of Newport-Mesa Unified School District, replacing outgoing president Sherry Loofbourrow.

Werner, 62, is a counselor at Pacifica High School in Garden Grove and has served on the board for the past decade. He was unanimously approved for the post by the board at a recent meeting.

The post is a one-year term during which the president chairs the twice-monthly school board meetings.

Loofbourrow will remain as a board member.

Supt. John W. Nicoll was also reappointed to the post of board secretary at the meeting earlier this month.

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Lisa Mascaro

Lisa Mascaro previously covered Congress in Washington, D.C., for the Los Angeles Times. She left in February 2018. A Los Angeles-area native, she has reported across Southern California, edited, traveled the States and worked in Texas. While the Washington correspondent for the Las Vegas Sun, she contributed as the paper won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. An economics and political science graduate of UC Santa Barbara, she also studied in Budapest, Hungary.

NEWPORT BEACH : Educator Elected to Head School Board

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