From: Hsin-Min Tong [htong@radford.edu]
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 11:32 PM
To: rule-comments@sec.gov
Subject: S7-19-03
                                                        3/29/04

To Whom It May Concern:

Greetings.  I support the SEC's proposed new rules "that would, under certain
circumstances, require companies to include in their proxy materials security
holder nominees for election as director."  I think that this is a very
meaningful response to corporate scandals that took place in recent years at
Enron, Tyco, WorldCom MCI, Adelphia, etc.  In addition, what happened to Mr.
Walter Hewlett at Hewlett-Packard (Mr. Hewlett was not nominated for another
term because he led the fight against the HP-Compaq merger) and to Mr. Roy
Disney at Disney (Mr. Disney was forced to leave the Disney board because he
voiced opposition to Disney CEO Mr. Eisner) in the recent past also makes me
feel that the SEC's proposed new rules should be supported.

     Thank you very much for your attention.  God bless America!

                                                        Hsin-Min Tong


Consider recent events at Disney (NYSE: DIS). The real shame isn't that 43% of
shares withheld authority from Michael Eisner and embarrassed him into stepping
down as chairman; it's that the board bounced Roy Disney after he voiced
opposition to Eisner. Similarly, after Walter Hewlett led the fight against
Hewlett-Packard's (NYSE: HPQ) merger with Compaq and won support from just under
half the shareholders (no other director had demonstrated that level of investor
support), he wasn't nominated for another term.