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.
This unnamed snowman is identified as a member of Phi Kappa Sigma. We tried looking him up, but his records have been frozen. From Spoon River's 1973 yearbook.
It's ultra common in old yearbooks to see a student's childhood Raggedy Ann doll brought along as a transition object. Here's Raggedy Ann in a dorm refrigerator. From Valparaiso's 1982 yearbook.
His official yearbook portrait. Was he was making some sort of statement, or did the photographer simply not know what he was doing? From Central Carolina Technical's 1982 yearbook.
You've heard of (and perhaps tried) opening a Bible at random and resting a finger on one verse as a form of divination. A more advanced practice is to do that but not look at the verse that comes up but rather attune to the answer that presents itself in your mind. Photo from Taylor Magazine, 1974.