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 is the official yearbook portrait of graduate Columbus Cochran Keith. (His field of study was not specified, but we presume Wildlife Forensics.) From Northern Illinois' 1902 yearbook.
Delightful to see our The Young Wizard's Hexopedia in the mirror world, under the light of a fireball, courtesy of the Holy Mountaineer, who says: "In which the protagonist burns away certain impurities, including the hair on his right hand, in celebration of the Great Work of one Professor Oddfellow, famous Sorcerer, Electronic Musician, Expounder of Ancient Mysticism, and Wise Sage to the Lawless, Wild Interweb."