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.
"Spacemen inhabiting human bodies are apparently able to distort photographic film and to make normally invisible forces appear seemingly out of nowhere." From UFO Review, 1980.
"Note that at this point, Ralph will divide into two separate entities, enabling him to experience both sides simultaneously." From St. Andrews' 1974 yearbook.
Go ahead and try to find a college art class that invites students to paint portraits of ghosts and otherwise invisible models. Secularization has all but destroyed this avenue of artistic expression. From Elizabethtown's 1974 yearbook.
We take great pains and risk eye damage to capture lens flares in our photos, and stamping "flare" in the vicinity of the sun is cheating. From Infantry magazine, 1980.
"In the flickering shadows cast by a dying fire, a couple sat talking quietly, holding close a moment against the onrush of time." From Mary Washington's yearbook of 1951.