The description that accompanied the May 30 photos of the house built by Portland-area high school technical students on Page B1 of the Local & State section of the Portland Press Herald requires some slight rewriting. The text should have been written as follows:

“A four-bedroom, Cape Cod-style house built by dozens of Portland-area high school students over the course of four academic years left Portland on Friday for its new home. Contractors moved the structure in several large pieces.

“The house was constructed by students of the plumbing and carpentry technologies at Portland Arts and Technology High School and by students studying electrical technology at the Westbrook High School Regional Vocational Center. The house was then assembled for its owners on its new foundation in Durham.”

I feel, professionally and personally, that the students studying electricity technology at the Westbrook High School-based Regional Vocational Center deserve to be recognized as “students” and not as “others.”

Between 1965 and 1969, I attended Westbrook High School and selected the vocational course – which back then was kind of looked down on when compared to the college course. The Rotary Club sponsored the houses being constructed then, and I was one of the students who wired two houses in Westbrook.

I am a proud member of the Westbrook High School Class of 1969 and an equally proud member of the Class of 1971 at Southern Maine Vocational-Technical Institute (now Southern Maine Community College) in electrical technology.

My sincere congratulations to the carpentry and plumbing students at PATHS and the electrical students at WHS Regional Vocational Center!

Dennis Marrotte

Westbrook

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