Southeast High School hosts 9/11 guest speaker, pays tribute to theater's namesake

Stand on the stage in the Jennifer L. Dorsey-Howley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Southeast High School, look up and to your left, and you’ll see a small blue light. It’s the only blue light in the theater. Over time, it’s come to represent Dorsey-Howley, a 1985 Southeast graduate who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Gordon Huie, a 9/11 survivor, addressed Southeast students, as well as friends and family of Dorsey-Howley’s, in that theater on Friday. He told his story from that day - and also took comfort in the memory of Dorsey-Howley.