From: Carol Thomas [scbooks@mindspring.com]
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 2:06 PM
To: rule-comments@sec.gov
Subject: S7-10-03

As a person who owns mutual funds, as a beneficiary of a defined 
contribution pension fund, and also as a member of the Investment Advisory 
Council of that pension fund, I am hopeful that the SEC will continue to 
work to make corporate governance honest and open.

Allowing stockholders to access the proxy in order to put forward 
candidates for corporate boards of directors would be a very powerful move 
to improve board accountability.  I urge you to make this excellent tool 
available to shareholders.

Carol M. Thomas