Lyford Beverage, named Wiscasset’s next interim superintendent of schools on June 26, has no intention of staying on for a permanent gig.

“That’s official,” Beverage, 71, of Pittsfield told reporters after the Wiscasset School Committee unanimously voted him into the temp job.

Beverage grew up on Call’s Hill Road in Dresden.

He said the committee made a very wise decision to go with an interim superintendent for the department’s first school year because, in the mountain of work to be done, it would be impossible for some choices not to make some people unhappy.

“It would be a shame for a long-term superintendent to start with baggage,” Beverage said.

In his approximately 46 years in education, he has worked in nearly every job there is at a school, from bus driver to teacher, to sports coach, to principal, Beverage said. He is a past superintendent of School Union 51, which had many of the towns now in the district Wiscasset is leaving, Regional School Unit 12; and is a former superintendent of School Administrative District 59 in Madison.

Asked about taking the helm of Wiscasset’s school department in the town’s first year on its own, Beverage said: “I’m looking forward to helping to shape a system that is efficiency-based and student-oriented, and developing a culture where students are identified as individuals for whom we have an obligation to do something good.”

“Welcome aboard,” Chairman Glen Craig told Beverage during the meeting in Room 3 at Wiscasset High School.

The interim position is for one year, July 1 through June 30, 2015.

Outgoing interim superintendent Wayne Dorr will be staying on about a month as Beverage begins his work. Dorr did not seek to hold onto the interim slot he took after voters elected the school committee in January. Wiscasset residents voted in November 2013 to leave RSU 12. The town is on its own July 1.