From: MSweet714@aol.com
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 9:35 AM
To: rule-comments@sec.gov
Subject: Shareholder proxy rules (s7-10-03)
Dear Sir or Madam,

As someone who has a 401k, IRA, and holds other investments (including my 
husband's pension fund), I want to applaud the SEC for undertaking a review 
of the shareholder proxy rules for corporate boards.  Hopefully your actions 
in this area will help to prevent the kinds of fraud we've witnessed over 
the past three years.  It's an outrage that so many corporations have lied 
and cheated and flaunted the rules to such an extent, and I feel that this 
is one of the reasons that people's confidence in the stock market remains 
so tenuous these days.  Hopefully you can amend the proxy rules to give 
shareholders a greater say in how directors are selected and in how companies 
are overseen.

We know this administration hasn't given the SEC the kind of resources you 
need to fulfill your mission, but it's encouraging to learn that you continue 
to work in our behalf -- thank you!

Go get 'em, guys!

Melissa Sweet
Costa Mesa, CA