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.
The word "gleebus" is very rare, with fewer than 90 Google results. As shown here, a gleebus is the creature that eats telephone receivers. From UNC Chapel Hill's 1963 yearbook.
Unusual to see a byline shared with elm trees. Yet who better than hedge-row elms to know about the countryside? And Mr. Woodward is aptly named, for whether we head woodward, hillockward, mountainward, rivuletward, or valleyward, we'll undoubtedly learn to enjoy the countryside. From How to Enjoy the Countryside by Marcus Woodward, undated.
Actual engines of psionic energy, powering the occult that lies within old yearbooks. How to find them and how to use them: How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook. From Rockingham's 1970 yearbook.