Subject: Proposed new rules 

Date:    11/20/97 1:38 PM
     
     
Dear Mr. Katz:
     
In my business I work with 55 clients who are very serious in their 
conviction that businesses should act ethically and responsibly toward 
their employees, toward the communities in which they operate, and 
toward the global community.
     
The SEC's proposed new rules disregard the rights of concerned 
shareholders to voice and to vote their concerns to the companies they 
own.  I urge you in the strongest possible way not to adopt these rules.
     
I urge you, on the contrary, to grant shareholders expanded rights to 
address the business practices of the companies they own.  
     
Respectfully,
Mary Becker, CFP
401 S.4th Ave., Suite 800
Louisville, KY  40202