EXHIBIT 99.2


        STATEMENT UNDER OATH OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND PRINCIPAL
              FINANCIAL OFFICER REGARDING FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES
                        RELATING TO EXCHANGE ACT FILINGS

I, Steven C. Preston, state and attest that:

(1) To the best of my knowledge,  based upon a review of the covered  reports of
The  ServiceMaster  Company,  and,  except as  corrected  or  supplemented  in a
subsequent covered report:

     o    no covered report  contained an untrue statement of a material fact as
          of the end of the period  covered by such  report (or in the case of a
          report on Form 8-K or definitive  proxy  materials,  as of the date on
          which it was filed); and

     o    no covered  report  omitted to state a material fact necessary to make
          the statements in the covered  report,  in light of the  circumstances
          under which they were made, not misleading as of the end of the period
          covered  by such  report  (or in the case of a  report  on Form 8-K or
          definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed).

(2) I have  reviewed  the  contents  of this  statement  with The  ServiceMaster
Company's Audit and Finance Committee.

(3) In this statement under oath,  each of the following,  if filed on or before
the date of this statement, is a "covered report":

     o    the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2001 of
          The ServiceMaster Company;

     o    all reports on Form 10-Q,  all reports on Form 8-K and all  definitive
          proxy materials of The ServiceMaster Company filed with the Commission
          subsequent to the filing of the Form 10-K identified above; and

     o    any amendments to any of the foregoing.




/S/ STEVEN C. PRESTON                        Subscribed and sworn to before me
- ---------------------------                  this 13th day of August 2002.
Steven C. Preston
August 13, 2002
                                               /S/ LATRESSA G. STAHLBERG
                                               ----------------------------
                                               Notary Public
                                               My Commission Expires: 6/2/2004