Bishop Grandin students stoked to set new record
Hundreds of Bishop Grandin high school students were totally jazzed by their attempt to set a new Guinness World record.
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![A gym full of students and staff at Bishop Grandin High School get into the tie dye spirit Grooving Into the Record Books in the school gym Friday February 26, 2016. The school broke the record for the largest number of people gathered together wearing tie-dye shirts.]()
A gym full of students and staff at Bishop Grandin High School get into the tie dye spirit Grooving Into the Record Books in the school gym Friday February 26, 2016. The school broke the record for the largest number of people gathered together wearing tie-dye shirts.
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![Lena Rojas, left, Princess Leia (she swears it's her real name) show off their tie dye spirit Grooving Into the Record Books at Bishop Grandin High School Friday February 26, 2016. The school broke the record for the largest number of people gathered together wearing tie dye shirts. (Ted Rhodes/Postmedia)]()
Lena Rojas, left, Princess Leia (she swears it's her real name) show off their tie dye spirit Grooving Into the Record Books at Bishop Grandin High School Friday February 26, 2016. The school broke the record for the largest number of people gathered together wearing tie dye shirts. (Ted Rhodes/Postmedia)
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![Grade 12 students at Bishop Grandin High School get into the tie dye spirit Grooving Into the Record Books in the school gym Friday February 26, 2016. Pictured from the left are, Meagan MacMillan, Cassie Haggerty, Marcelyn Buluran, Lauren Smith and Emily Wagner. The school broke the record for the largest number of people gathered together wearing tie dye shirts. (Ted Rhodes/Postmedia)]()
Grade 12 students at Bishop Grandin High School get into the tie dye spirit Grooving Into the Record Books in the school gym Friday February 26, 2016. Pictured from the left are, Meagan MacMillan, Cassie Haggerty, Marcelyn Buluran, Lauren Smith and Emily Wagner. The school broke the record for the largest number of people gathered together wearing tie dye shirts. (Ted Rhodes/Postmedia)
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![Grade 12 students at Bishop Grandin High School get into the tie dye spirit Grooving Into the Record Books in the school gym Friday February 26, 2016. Pictured from the left are, Meagan MacMillan, Cassie Haggerty, Marcelyn Buluran, Lauren Smith and Emily Wagner. The school broke the record for the largest number of people gathered together wearing tie dye shirts. (Ted Rhodes/Postmedia)]()
Grade 12 students at Bishop Grandin High School get into the tie dye spirit Grooving Into the Record Books in the school gym Friday February 26, 2016. Pictured from the left are, Meagan MacMillan, Cassie Haggerty, Marcelyn Buluran, Lauren Smith and Emily Wagner. The school broke the record for the largest number of people gathered together wearing tie dye shirts. (Ted Rhodes/Postmedia)
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![Lauren Smith holds the phone for a selfie as she and her grade 12 friends at Bishop Grandin High School get into the tie dye spirit Grooving Into the Record Books in the school gym Friday February 26, 2016. Pictured from the left are, Meagan MacMillan, Cassie Haggerty, Marcelyn Buluran, Smith and Emily Wagner. The school broke the record for the largest number of people gathered together wearing tie dye shirts. (Ted Rhodes/Postmedia)]()
Lauren Smith holds the phone for a selfie as she and her grade 12 friends at Bishop Grandin High School get into the tie dye spirit Grooving Into the Record Books in the school gym Friday February 26, 2016. Pictured from the left are, Meagan MacMillan, Cassie Haggerty, Marcelyn Buluran, Smith and Emily Wagner. The school broke the record for the largest number of people gathered together wearing tie dye shirts. (Ted Rhodes/Postmedia)
Hundreds of Calgary students set their psychedelic sights on a Guinness World record and appear to have found their groove.
It looks like a huge bummer for a New Jersey high school that holds the title for the largest gathering of people in tie-dye shirts after Bishop Grandin high school staged a sit-in Friday counting 885 donning the funky threads.
It would easily ditch the previous standard of 454, noted Bishop Grandin vice-principal Steve Laberge.
“We should be good for a while,” said Laberge, who noted well over half the school’s population was cool with helping collar the record.
In paying homage to the school’s 1960s origins, students and staff spent late January and much of February gathering and making the tie-dye shirts.
More than 600 of the $5 shirts were conjured at the school, said Laberge.
“We’ve got some pretty groovy patterns,” he said, adding students on Friday dug deeper into the 1960s than merely shirt-deep.
“There were a lot of bell bottoms here, too.”
The school will now send a video of the gathering to the Guinness Book of World Records in expectation of officially scoring the new record.
