From: mathews@evenlink.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 9:18 PM
To: rule-comments@sec.gov
Subject: Re: File No. S7-36-02



SEC Secretary Mr. Jonathan G. Katz
450 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20549

Dear SEC Secretary Mr. Jonathan G. Katz,

Re: File No. S7-36-02 

Dear Mr. Katz: 

We wish to make clear our unqualified support for the
SEC's proposed rule (S7-36-02) that will require mutual
funds to disclose proxy voting policies and most important
of all, their actual proxy voting decisions.  

We are more than a little weary of mutual fund industry
claims that we investors have no concern with how our
funds are voting these proxies. We are both long-time
mutual fund investors and we certainly care very much
about our own investments. It is an outrage for the
mutual fund industry to pretend to speak for us on
the issue of proxy voting. Please forgive this language,
but just who in hell do these people think they are?
Again, we most strongly urge the SEC to adopt this
proposed rule. 



Sincerely,

Thomas and Florence Mathews
28 Sunny Side Drive
Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania 17972