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.
I wonder if they stayed together, or perhaps years later each of them saw this old photo and wondered, "What was I thinking?" From Western Michigan's 1965 yearbook.
Though yarn hair, not mop hair, is most appropriate for a Raggedy Ann & Andy look, we're going to let this transgression pass. From Mount Wachusett's 1972 yearbook.
A ray emanates from the third eye chakra. From Evansville's 1983 yearbook (top). Lest one think this was a fluke, we noticed an eerily similar phenomenon in the Francis Marion yearbook of 1979 (bottom).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]