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.
"'Tis pleasure, sure, to see one's name in print; a book's a book, although there's nothing in 't" (Byron). From University of Mary Washington's 1915 yearbook.
"There's music in the sighing of a reed, there's music in the gushing of a rill, there's music in all things, if men had ears; our earth is but an echo of the spheres" (Byron). From University of Mary Washington's 1915 yearbook.