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 ghost on the right has no head, the ghost on the left is mostly a red blur, and the head of the ghost in the middle is transparent. From Appalachian's 1977 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.