From: Jabogin124@aol.com
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 8:22 PM
To: rule-comments@sec.gov
Subject: File No. S7-36-02

Dear SEC:
    As an investor in Fidelity, Vanguard, T. Rowe Price, Janus, Harbor and 
other mutual funds, and also simply as a member of the American public, I 
strongly support the proposal to require disclosure by such funds of their 
proxy voting actions and policies.
    A huge portion of all proxy votes cast in  US corporations are cast by 
mutual funds, particularly the large ones.  Thus, the policies and actions of 
those funds can, and no doubt often do,  affect the entire US economy to an 
appreciable degree.  The disclosures which would be required by the proposed 
Rule would give investors and the public some measure of control and some 
ability to prevent abuses.
    Thanks for considering these views.
Asher Bogin
Dayton, Ohio