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CONTINUING DIRECTORS WHOSE TERMS EXPIRE IN 2006 (CLASS II DIRECTORS):
G. Kenneth Baum
Director since 1961
Age 75
Mr. Baum has served as the Chairman of George K. Baum Group, Inc., an investment company,
Kansas City, Missouri, since April 1994. Mr. Baum joined the firm of George K. Baum & Company, a
regional investment banking firm, in 1952 and was President of that organization from 1957 until 1982
when he was elected to Chairman of the Board, serving in that capacity until April 1994. Mr. Baum
graduated from Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota in 1952 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in
history. He currently serves as a director of Interstate Bakeries Corporation. Mr. Baum is Chairman of
the Governance and Nominating Committee of the Board of Directors and is a member of the Executive
and Finance Committees. Mr. Baum will retire as a director at the 2005 annual meeting of shareholders
pursuant to the Board’s retirement policy.
Henry F. Frigon
Director since 1992
Age 70
Mr. Frigon currently serves as the Vice Chairman of the Board of CARSTAR, Inc., Overland Park, Kansas,
and served as Chairman of the Board of CARSTAR from 1998 to May 2005. He served as Chief
Executive Officer of CARSTAR, Inc. from July 1998 until February 2001. Mr. Frigon retired from Hallmark
Cards, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri in 1994 where he served as Executive Vice President, Corporate
Development & Strategy, and Chief Financial Officer, as well as being a member of its Board of Directors
from 1990 until December 1994. Prior to joining Hallmark, Mr. Frigon served as the President and Chief
Executive Officer of BATUS, Inc., where he was responsible for the company’s extensive U.S. holdings in
retailing, financial services, tobacco and paper. His previous business experience covers a variety of
operating, management and board positions with companies such as Masco Corporation, General
Housewares, General Foods Corporation and Chase Manhattan Bank. Mr. Frigon received a bachelor’s
degree in engineering from Tufts University in 1957 and a Master of Business Administration from New
York University in 1961. He also attended Wharton Graduate School at the University of Pennsylvania
and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. Mr. Frigon is also a
director of Buckeye Technologies, Inc., Dimon, Inc., Packaging Corporation of America, Sypris Solutions,
Inc. and Tuesday Morning Corporation. Mr. Frigon is Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Board
of Directors and a member of the Audit, Compensation and Executive Committees.
Roger W. Hale
Director since 1991
Age 62
Mr. Hale served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of LG&E Energy Corporation, a diversified
energy services company headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, from August 1990 until retiring in April
2001. Prior to joining LG&E, he was Executive Vice President of BellSouth Corporation, a
communications services company in Atlanta, Georgia. From 1966 to 1986, Mr. Hale held several
executive positions with AT&T Co., a communications services company, including Vice President,
Southern Region from 1983 to 1986. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of
Maryland in 1965 and a Master of Science in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Sloan School of Management in 1979. Mr. Hale is also a director of Ashland, Inc., where he
serves as Chairman of the Audit Committee and is a member of the Public Policy and Environmental
Committees. He has served as the Presiding Director of the Board of Directors since September 8, 2004
and is Chairman of the Executive Committee of Board of Directors and a member of the Audit,
Compensation and Governance and Nominating Committees.
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