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.
"Behind the loaf is the flour, behind the flour is the mill, and behind the mill is the wind, and the shower, and the sun, and the Father's will." From Rockford College's 1934 yearbook.
"Give me this day my daily opinion, and forgive me the one I had yesterday!" From the North Carolina Baptist Hospital School of Nursing's 1972 yearbook.
"The fisherman's prayer: O Lord, suffer me to catch a fish so large that even I when talking of it afterwards may have no need to lie." Via UpNorthMemories.