Charlie Frankel '90 with girlfriend Stephanie.

Greetings, classmates.

I knew if I raised the reward to a dollar that one of our classmates would get on the bandwagon and track Jim Kingsley down. Congratulations to Terri Foremen for her crack research. Modest as always, Terri admits, "It took one Google search." Nonetheless, contact was made with our ever-elusive, never-forgotten classmate, and here is his reply:

"It was great to hear from you. I had fallen off the address list of Kellogg World magazine and one of my co-workers who is an alum showed me the passage which was the alumni magazine equivalent of my picture on a milk carton.

"It was very nice to hear that people were actually inquiring about me. I assume it must be those to whom I owe money or forgot to return their marketing channels book that I borrowed in 1989 (we all know it's timeless). I thought that I had changed my address at the Kellogg alumni site, but apparently not.

"I will have to provide some history to help explain/justify my loss of contact. I won't drag you though my entire history since 1990 as it would likely bore the readership and cut into any interest in any future unauthorized autobiographies I may choose to write. I worked at Lucent Technologies until 1997. I learned a valuable lesson there, which is you don't really want to invest a major portion of your 401(k) in your company's stock. I actually have a printout of a comment I once made, 'Who won't like Lucent at $70 a share 30 years from now?' I take it out and read it whenever I sense I am about to do something really stupid.

"I joined a private equity company, Jordan Industries, and was working on a build-up of Telecom component companies. It was sold to Emerson Electric in 2000 and I moved over to Emerson at that time. I had a great experience at Emerson and was transferred to Baltimore in 2003. Now, to a lot of people reading this (assuming anyone is still reading), that is no big deal as many people get transferred more often than I get my teeth cleaned. But to a guy who has lived his entire life within 40 miles of Wrigley Field, it was a significant event.

"We had a great time in Baltimore. I was able to follow my Cubs from afar while also enjoying the Orioles and Nationals who were both in first place in July. Of course, they both finished the year in last place (assuming you ignore Tampa Bay — and why wouldn't you?). I was starting to think it was me.

"We really enjoyed the East Coast, as everything is so close in a relative sense. Nothing against Milwaukee, Indianapolis or Cedar Rapids, but being within short driving distance of Washington D.C., Philly and New York City was very nice. Of course, we never actually went to any of these places, but knowing that we could have driven there gave us a lot of satisfaction.

"We were only in Maryland for about two years, when I had the opportunity to come back to Chicago and work for a good friend I had worked for at Jordan and Emerson. It happened so quickly that we thought maybe the kids wouldn't even realize that we had moved and we could avoid all the hand wringing about moving being hard on the kids. We are very excited to be back. The kids are integrating well into the schools, Alison (my wife) is a school psychologist in the Wilmette district and the Cubs are absolutely terrible, so all is right in the world.

"I believe this column tolerates, if not encourages, taking advantage of the free advertising opportunity, so here it goes: I now work at Pliant Corporation which is headquartered in Schaumburg, Ill., and is a leader in flexible packaging and value-added plastic film technology. We provide packaging solutions for a variety of markets including food and beverage, medical, personal care, industrial and even not-for-profit software. I now live in Lake Forest with my children: Molly (10), Michael (7) and Bryan (5) and my wife, (age withheld by request). I look forward to re-engaging with many of the Kellogg crew around the Chicago area and beyond. I will update my contact information on the Web site if I can ever figure out what a Wildcard ID is, so anyone to whom I owe money can track me down."

In other news, Bill Driscoll continues his military tour in Iraq and has sent a couple of more updates out to his friends and family this summer. The best news is that Bill and Lisa just celebrated their 11th wedding anniversary and that by the time you read this, Bill will have returned home from Iraq having finished his time there. I take my hat off to you, Bill, for what you've done. Not many people would have been motivated to do what you did at this stage in life. Thank you again.

Jonathan Nelson was recently quoted in Barron's on his work with SUCCESS STORIES: JAPAN Executive Newsletter, which provides business information to executives around the world seeking to increase their profits in Japan.

For some reason, my partners in crime (Kevin Sankey and Kathy Monahan) and I have not heard from many of you this past quarter (and we apologize for being somewhat busy ourselves and not able to track more news down). Please take a moment to drop one of us a note to let us know what is new in your life. I've decided that now that Jim Kingsley has been found, we need a new picture on our milk carton. Has anyone heard from Dean and Laura Egerter? I'll even keep the reward for information at a dollar!