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.
Thomas McFarland has written of an "interpenetration of livingness and dyingness as contained in the very nature of autumn." Here's what it looks like. From Salem's 1981 yearbook.
Ever since we spent the night in that haunted clock tower in Solvang, we haven't been able to properly time our seasonal posts. Whenever you happen to be, this one is from Salem's 1983 yearbook.
If there's anything worse than yearbook writers trying to sound deep, tell me, because it'll be news to me. "Praying for voiceless cannons silenced by golden hopes of distant realities." From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1973 yearbook.
You already know that "A yellow time always ends a green time" (Dusan Teodorovic & Milan Janic, Transportation Engineering). This photograph may be used as a tool for accessing a yellow time. From Worcester Polytechnic's 1967 yearbook.