WESTBROOK– The former Wescott Junior High School will retain the name of the city’s late mayor Fred C. Wescott, and his widow, Annette, said Wednesday that she couldn’t be more pleased.

“I’m happy with it because that’s all I asked for,” she said.

When the new middle school was built on Stroudwater Street last year, the old school became the Westbrook Community Center, which upset Wescott, 74, and her family.

Wednesday afternoon, Wescott said, she, along with two of her children, Susan Blais and Wayne Wescott, met with City Manager Jerre Bryant. She said Bryant told the family the community center would be re-named the Fred C. Wescott Building.

Bryant, who confirmed the change, said it was Mayor Colleen Hilton’s decision to restore the Wescott name to the building.

“We basically wanted to make everything right,” Bryant said.

The name will soon grace a new sign over the building’s entrance. Wescott said she did not want to have any formal rededication ceremony.

“They told me they’d have a rededication in the spring,” she said. “I told them they didn’t need it.”

Wescott also credited City Councilors John O’Hara and Mike Sanphy, who, she said, supported her from the start, lobbying on her behalf.

Wescott said her husband would have been “overwhelmed” at the outpouring of interest in protecting his memory.

“I don’t think he ever would have imagined that the building would have been named after him in the first place,” she said.

Wescott said she was glad she raised the issue with the city, and said if the positions were reversed, her husband might have put up a bigger fight.

“I’m the quiet one,” she said with a smile.