SCHEDULE 14A
SCHEDULE 14A INFORMATION
Proxy Statement Pursuant To Section 14(a)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
(Amendment No. ___)
Filed By The Registrant [___]
Filed By A Party Other Than The Registrant [_X_]
Check The Appropriate Box
[___] Preliminary Proxy Statement
[___] Confidential, For Use Of The Commission Only
[___] Definitive Proxy Statement
[___] Definitive Additional Materials
[_X_] Soliciting Material Under Rule 240.14a-12
AUTO-GRAPHICS, INC.
(name of registrant)
COREY M. PATICK, Chairman
Auto-Graphics, Inc. Special Shareholders Committee
(name of person(s) filing statement if other than registrant)
Payment of Filing Fee
[_X_] No Fee Required
CONTACT: For information regarding this proxy statement/filing, please contact -
Corey M. Patick at 909/576-9000
or 269 South Beverly Drive, #438, Beverly Hills, CA 90210
COREY M. PATICK
AUTO-GRAPHICS, INC.
SPECIAL SHAREHOLDERS COMMITTEE
269 South Beverly Drive, # 438
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
Tel. No. 909/576-9000
September 17, 2001
Dear A-G Shareholder:
By now you should have received a Proxy Statement and Proxy Card (White)
from the Special Shareholders Committee requesting your proxy to be used by the
Special Shareholders Committee to elect Professor James Dudley, Robert Bretz and
myself to the Auto-Graphics, Inc. ("the "Company") Board of Directors at the
Special Shareholders Meeting called by the Committee for such purpose.
Hopefully, you have already dated, signed and sent back your proxy to me to be
used by the Special Committee. If not, PLEASE DO SO RIGHT NOW. I have enclosed
another copy of the Proxy Card and a stamped self-addressed envelope for you to
use for such purpose.
I also want to inform you that Robert Cope caused the Company to file a
lawsuit against me and Professor Tom Dudley last week seeking to enjoin the
Special Shareholders Meeting called by the Shareholders Committee together with
other shareholders of the Company for September 25th. The Court refused to do
so.
Now, having failed to stop the Shareholders Meeting (which he has refused
to allow the Company to call and hold for the last two years as required under
the Company's By-Laws and under California Law), Bob Cope has apparently decided
to send out his own (Bob Cope NOT the Company's) proxy statement and similar
looking proxy card soliciting your proxy to elect himself, his associate James
Yarter and Professor Dudley to constitute the Company's Board of Directors.
Professor Dudley HAS NOT AGREED TO BE A COPE NOMINEE and to serve on the
Company's Board with Bob Cope and Jim Yarter. Cope has misrepresented the
situation in his proposed proxy statement and proxy card. Please DO NOT BE
CONFUSED by the improper tactic used by Bob Cope purporting to identify
Professor Dudley as one of Cope's nominees to serve with him and Jim Yarter.
Dudley is the nominee of the Special Shareholders Committee (and only the
Committee), not Mr. Cope.
If you have not previously sent in a Proxy Card to the Committee, please do
so right now. Time is short. The Meeting is September 25th. If you have
received, and were confused by Mr. Cope's improper proxy solicitation identify
Professor Dudley as one of his nominees to the A-G Board, and you sent in a
proxy card to Mr. Cope, please correct such situation now by dating, signing and
returning the enclosed additional Proxy Card for the Shareholders Committee (see
the Special Shareholders Committee name at the top of the Committee's Proxy
Card) in the enclosed stamped envelope.
Your assistance in the Committee's effort to elect Tom Dudley to the A-G
Board, and otherwise as set forth in the Committee's Proxy Statement, is greatly
appreciated. Thanks.
Very truly Yours,
By COREY M. PATICK
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Corey M. Patick for the Special
Shareholders Committee
cc: Tom Dudley