This discussion was started by Harry Tabanken on the Facebook Group I Graduated from Bangor High School.

• Harry posted on July 2, 2011: "Can anyone else from the class of 59 remember when we conspired to break the rules and.....if you can believe this...........wore jeans to class!"
• Jim McDonald replied: "I don't remember that. But then again, these days, there is a lot that I don't remember! lol"
• Harry replied: "I don't know whose idea it was but I think it was one of you Fifth Streeters. And word had spread by mouth, not by e-mail or tweetin."
• Jim replied: "lol. Maybe soup cans and string?"
• Sally (Hill) Reed then replied: "I recall the day known as 'black Friday' when everyone dressed in black to school- but as for the jean day--that is a very vague recollection..."
• Judy (Averill) Gilbert on July 8, 2011 replied: "I graduated in '67 and we were banned from wearing granny dresses or skorts! Two years later I wore micro minis at UMaine and heard that BHS would finally allow slacks on Fridays, but no jeans. Back then at John Bapst the Brother would make the girls kneel on chairs to see if their skirts touched the seats...they had to be below the knee...and at JBHS dances the Brother would take a ruler to make sure the couples were waltzing at least a foot apart at the chest."
• Callie (Allen) Seaton on July 9th replied: "In reference to Harry's talk of wearing jeans, I remember we were dressing too much like hippies and that is why we were sent home to change. Or it was because the principal, to his credit, thought it was a small group doing so and did not include the whole class."