SEC Historical Society Annual Meeting to Feature SEC Enforcement Chief, NY State Attorney General

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2003-68

Washington, D.C., June 2, 2003 -- The Commission announced today that the SEC Historical Society will conduct its Annual Meeting on Wednesday, June 4, 2003, from 5:30 — 6:30 p.m. EST in the William O. Douglas Room at the Commission headquarters building, 450 5th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Stephen Cutler, Director of Enforcement at the Commission, and Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General for the State of New York, will speak on current enforcement issues. Recipients of the SEC Distinguished Service Award and the Manual F. Cohen Award, given by the Federal Bar Association, will also be recognized at the meeting.

The SEC Historical Society will offer a live audio-stream of the event on its Web site at www.sechistorical.org. As usual, the Annual Meeting will be videotaped and placed in the virtual archives of the Society. It will also be audio-cast on the SEC's Web site at www.sec.gov.

The Society, founded in 1999, is a private, non-profit organization that seeks to create broad understanding of the distinctive role that the SEC has and continues to play in the evolution of American and international financial markets. It is independent of the SEC and receives no federal funding.

The annual meeting is open to members of the Society, SEC staff and SEC alumni.

For further information, please contact Mary McCue at (202) 543-3152.