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.
Mysteriously glowing trees spread in a forest of their own, seen only through the windows of vintage college yearbooks. From Indiana University's 1974 yearbook.
At first glance, we thought she was dropping a head into the flames, as per the sort of weirdness one encounters in old yearbooks. From MacMurray College's 1963 yearbook.
"For these are our soothsayers ... All we can see beyond the tips of our fingers. Darkness of the corners of our future." From Texas Wesleyan's 1968 yearbook.