Mary Ellen Angeletti, Letter to Gov. Taft: Tom Hall for STRS Board

Date: July 30, 2006
To: governor.taft@gov.state.oh.us
Subject: Appointee to STRS

Dear Governor Taft,

Please consider Professor Tom Hall as an appointee for the STRS Board to replace Judith Fisher. Professor Hall came in third in the recent STRS elections with an impressive 13,000 plus votes and was the third most popular candidate. The first and second place candidates won the election and presently sit on the Board. You have received Prof. Hall's resume from others who have written you to recommend him. He is most capable and as a STRS member would certainly hold our interests at heart. Please do consider him as he has the background necessary to be a very effective Board member. He understands investments, accounting, and finance and has written many books about these fields. Most important, his perspective will be from a pension fund point of view rather than a corporate world point of view which was frustrating to Ms. Fisher. She simply did NOT understand the retiree's conservative stance when it came to THEIR funds which had already been misspent. She did not grasp the emotional history of this particular situation, and she did not seem to care or want to understand the perilous situation in which we retirees found ourselves when the misspending facts at STRS became known. Professor Hall understands all of this and will be a sensitive & astute STRS Board member who will follow ORC 3307.15 to the letter. This is the kind of individual we need on the Board. Please do the right thing for Ohio's retired teachers and appoint Professor Hall.

Yours very truly,
Mary Ellen Angeletti, STRS Retiree

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