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.
Though yarn hair, not mop hair, is most appropriate for a Raggedy Ann & Andy look, we're going to let this transgression pass. From Mount Wachusett's 1972 yearbook.
Surprisingly, this page from a religious college's yearbook revises the Bible, changing "through a glass, darkly" (1 Corinthians 13) to "brightly," a revision used by anti-religionists. (There's even a book with this revision as its title: Through a Glass Brightly: Using Science to See Our Species as We Really Are.) Unable to control themselves, the yearbook editors ran with the revisionism and brought coffee into it: "Through a glass warmly." From Mount Olive's 1963 yearbook.
The most unlikely pairings of photos to college departments that we've encountered to date. Or are they the most perfect pairings? From Missouri Southern's 1971 yearbook.