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ARTHUR ANDERSEN LLP
Report of Independent Public Accountants
To the Shareholders and Board of Trustees
of The Gateway Trust:
In planning and performing our audit of the financial statements of The Gateway
Trust for the year ended December 31, 1997, we considered its internal control,
including control activities for safeguarding securities, in order to determine
our auditing procedures for the purpose of expressing our opinion on the
financial statements and to comply with the requirements of Form N-SAR, not to
provide assurance on internal control.
The management of The Gateway Trust is responsible for establishing and
maintaining internal control. In fulfilling this responsibility, estimates
and judgments by management are required to assess the expected benefits and
related cost of controls. Generally, controls that are relevant to an audit
pertain to the entity's objective of preparing financial statements for
external purposes that are fairly presented in conformity with generally
accepted accounting principles. Those controls include the safeguarding of
assets against unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition.
Because of inherent limitations in any internal control, errors or fraud may
occur and not be detected. Also, projection of any evaluation of internal
control to future periods is subject to the risk that it may become inadequate
because of changes in conditions or that the effectiveness of the design and
operation may deteriorate.
Our consideration of the internal control would not necessarily disclose all
matters in the internal control that might be material weaknesses under
standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants. A material weakness is a condition in which the design or
operation of one or more of the internal control components does not reduce
to a relatively low level the risk that misstatements caused by error or fraud
in amounts that would be material in relation to the financial statements being
audited may occur and not be detected within a timely period by employees in
the normal course of performing their assigned functions. However, we noted
no matters involving the internal control and its operation, including controls
for safeguarding securities, that we consider to be material weaknesses as
defined above as of December 31, 1997.
This report is intended solely for the information and use of management, the
Board of Trustees, and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Cincinnati, Ohio
January 20, 1998
