Date:    1/5/98  1:05 PM
Subject: rule S7-25-97 (stockholder gag rule)
     
     
Dear Mr. Levitt:  I am writing to express my opposition to the "stockholder gag 
bill."  I believe it is very important to have open stockholder meetings.  I 
say this from various perspectives:
     
1.  professor (I have taught business law &/or taxation for 11 years now).
     
2.  licensed CPA (Syracuse University acctg degree 1974).
     
3.  licensed atty (Syracuse University College of Law -- JD 1984 and Georgetown 
University Law Center -- LLM(Tax) 1988).
     
4.  shareholder (my retirement is all in TIAA-CREF and most of that is in the 
stock market).
     
5.  and finally, from my perspective as a woman in this society (we are almost 
always under-represented in Boards of Directors etc; holding open stockholder 
meetings at least gives us a theoretical chance to be heard).
     
I thank you for your time and attention.  I urge you to keep stockholder 
meetings "open."
     
Very truly yours,
Prof. Faye Bradwick, CPA, JD, LLM-Tax 
IUP - Indiana University of PA
Eberly College of Business
421 ECOB - Accounting Dept
Indiana PA 15705-1087
     
PS to Mr. Levitt:  I believe I attended one semester of law school at Syracuse 
(Fall 1981) with your daughter, Laurie Levitt.  I remember she was very 
interested in dance (Twyla Tharp etc).  I always wondered what she did when she 
left law school.  Please send her my regards.  Faye Bradwick