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.
Here's the patron saint of juiced lemons, from York's 1992 yearbook. In the figure's right hand is a lemon juicer, and the left hand holds a lemon (not visible).
A giant orb of light by a snowy tree. To demystify it, as Scott Neustadter has said, would merely disappoint those of us who love not knowing. From West Virginia Wesleyan's yearbook of 1965.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
We thought this was a streetlight, but the caption identifies it as the setting sun through a gap in the trees. This photograph may be used to facilitate time travel. From Sweet Briar's yearbook of 1991.