* Lewis Beall; Educator, School District Administrator

Lewis Beall, 72, Southern California educator and school district administrator. Born in San Marino, Beall earned a bachelor’s degree at UC Berkeley, master’s degree at UCLA, a doctorate at USC, and served in the Coast Guard during the Korean War. He began his career teaching science at Monrovia High School but soon moved into administration as assistant principal and then principal in Anaheim high schools. He went on to become assistant superintendent in the Desert Sands School District in Indio. Moving to the Azusa School District, Beall served as assistant superintendent from 1967 to 1974 and was superintendent for the next decade. In 1984, he became superintendent of the larger Chula Vista City School District in San Diego County, where he remained until his retirement. A former president of the California City School Superintendents Assn., Beall in 1983 received the California School Boards Assn. Golden Bell Award for outstanding service to California students. Over the years, Beall also taught graduate classes at USC, Pepperdine and Cal State Long Beach. On Thursday in San Diego of cancer.