Have You Ever Wondered What Happened To...

Have you ever wondered what happened to... (you fill in the name)?  My husband and I were just having this conversation yesterday, and again commented that it would have been a terrific idea if we had kept a log with names of persons we met, including the date and a brief memo throughout our lives.  We have a local newspaper columnist that at the end of each year lists the names of all persons he mentioned in his column to thank them for writing ideas, and we thought what an excellent idea this is to remember names of people who have passed through our lives.
Well, lo and behold, a few minutes later, that very same columnist came around the corner of the mountain we were walking down, complete with his two "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" dogs (remember the 60's series?).  We quickly decided to ask him how long he had practiced this writing down of names.  Dan replied that he had gotten this idea from another newspaper writer from the San Francisco Chronicle, and he himself had been doing it since the 90's.  We told him that we wished we had kept a "people we meet" log, and he agreed that he wished he had done so too.
I think that I'm going to follow up with giving my kids and grandkids the idea too.  It would be interesting for my grandchildren, 30 years from now to remember the name of somebody that they knew from school or other activity.  Remembering people who were significant at different times in our lives lends to completing the picture of good memories, and lessons we learned in different relationships, whether close, distant, or brief.