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Robert Scott honored with service award

Mayor Mitch Ward presents Robert Scott with his service award. (photo by Paul Silva)

(Updated: Thursday, July 8, 2010 4:52 PM PDT)

Robert Scott was presented with the 2010 Manhattan Beach Recreation and Youth Services Award by Mayor Mitch Ward Tuesday night, for his tireless mentoring and teaching in Manhattan Beach and the South Bay.

For more than 30 years, Scott has worked with young people in the city, teaching and mentoring in the city’s swim, music and environmental programs. Scott has tutored Manhattan Beach students in chemistry, physics and higher mathematics since 1984, taught the summer swim program at Begg Junior High School from 1976 to 1992, and has given private swim lessons and yearly intense Junior Lifeguard preparation workouts since 1992.

Scott taught chemistry at Lennox High School and Leuzinger High School starting in 1974, and taught the Marymount College Summer Program in chemistry since 1994, along with tutoring students for college admission and scholarships.

“There’s no more honor than helping the youth of society. You do it fantastically well,” Ward said.

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