From: schneider7@cox.net
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 4:42 PM
To: rule-comments@sec.gov
Subject: File No. S7-36-02



Dear SEC Secretary,

Enron, Adelphia, Global Crossing, and too many other examples of financial 
irresponsibility should be enough to convince anyone of the necessity of strict 
corporate oversight.  The environmental and social direction of a company requires 
sensitivity to the issues, appreciation of the "big picture, and no small amount 
of courage.    Oversight and direction begins with the boards and the executive 
committees.  Board members and executives must act free of self-interest, and 
free of too-narrow a focus on merely the bottom line.

I understand the SEC is reviewing a proposed rule that would require mutual fund 
companies to report their proxy votes.   Since most of us have our savings tied up 
in mutual funds, not directly in stock ownership, our direct influence on companies 
is filtered through another layer of well-connected executives.  If I cannot readily 
find out how a mutual Fund voted its proxies, I don't know whether my money is 
invested in companies that practice the high level of fiduciary and social 
responsibility I expect.

Please stand up for investors like me.  Please vote in favor of the proposed proxy 
voting rule.


Jim Schneider

9840 Louis Drive

Omaha, NE 
68114-1234