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 bookshelf includes a textbook on How to Psyche Them Out, the cookbook How to Gain Weight, It's All Greek To Me, Not So Plain Speaking, Nada Mas, the three-volume East - Meets - West, and Pure Trash. From Barnard's 1978 yearbook
Bad advice! "Never fear the winding road that projects into tomorrow." In St. Ives, Cornwall, a very narrow one-way winding road led terrifyingly to a steep staircase not suitable for cars. It required a 15-point turn to get out of that deathtrap. Seriously, one was envisioning a helicopter rescue. Indeed, the winding road that projects into tomorrow may possibly be malefic. From Rend Lake's 1980 yearbook