CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
"Alas! How easily things go wrong, a sigh too deep or a kiss too long, then comes a mist and weeping rain, and life is never the same again." From Nebraska Wesleyan University's 1917 yearbook.
"This is the place. Stand still, my steed, let me review the scene, and summon from the shadowy past the forms that once have been" (Longfellow). From Oklahoma A & M College's 1938 yearbook.
"I can see, said philosopher Blair, a very strange thing in the air. It has wings like a bird, of which I have heard, and a most philosophical stare." From Youth's Companion, 1883.