SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549


                                    FORM 8-K

                                 CURRENT REPORT

     Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934


   Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)         December 8, 2003


                               SPRINT CORPORATION
             (Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

          Kansas                    1-04721                    48-0457967
(State of Incorporation)    (Commission File Number)       (I.R.S. Employer
                                                          Identification No.)


   6200 Sprint Parkway, Overland Park, Kansas                   66251
     (Address of principal executive offices)                (Zip Code)


    Registrant's telephone number, including area code    (913) 624-3000



          (Former name or former address, if changed since last report)


               P. O. Box 7997, Shawnee Mission, Kansas 66207-0997
                (Mailing address of principal executive offices)



Item 5.  Other Events.

     On December 8, 2003, the registrant ("Sprint") announced the appointment of
two new,  independent  directors,  E. Linn Draper, Jr., Chairman,  President and
Chief  Executive  Officer of  American  Electric  Power  Company,  and Gerald L.
Storch, Vice Chairman of Target  Corporation,  to the Sprint Board of Directors.
The press release was as follows:


Sprint Appoints Two New Members to Board of Directors

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - Dec. 8, 2003 - Sprint (NYSE: FON, PCS) today announced the
appointments of E. Linn Draper,  Jr. and Gerald L. Storch to the Sprint Board of
Directors.

A prominent  energy sector executive and nuclear  engineer,  Draper is chairman,
president, and chief executive officer of American Electric Power Company (AEP),
headquartered  in Columbus,  Ohio, and holds the same titles for the AEP Service
Corporation,  the management  and  technology  arm of the AEP system.  He became
president of AEP and the Service  Corporation in March 1992,  following 13 years
with Gulf  States  Utilities  Company  in  Beaumont,  Texas,  where he served as
chairman, president and chief executive officer.

Storch is Vice  Chairman  of Target  Corporation,  and  leads  Target  Financial
Services, Target Technology Services, Distribution Services,  target.direct (the
company's  e-commerce  and catalog  business)  and  Marshall  Field's.  Prior to
joining Target Corporation in 1993, Storch was a partner in the Boston, New York
and Los Angeles offices of McKinsey & Co., management consultants,  specializing
in retailing and financial services.

Both  Draper and Storch  will join the Sprint  board as  independent  directors,
effective immediately.

"Linn and Jerry are  important  additions  to  Sprint's  board,"  said  Linda K.
Lorimer, chair of Sprint's Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. "Jerry
has helped build Target into a nationwide  retail giant and Linn,  with 10 years
as chief  executive  officer,  has guided AEP  effectively  through a  changing,
challenging regulatory environment.  Both have had distinguished careers and are
very well respected in their  industries.  Their counsel will be instrumental to
shaping the future success of Sprint."

Draper  holds a bachelor  of arts  degree and a  bachelor  of science  degree in
chemical  engineering from Rice  University,  and a doctorate in nuclear science
and engineering from Cornell University.

Storch holds a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School, a master of business
administration  degree  from  Harvard  Business  School,  and a bachelor of arts
degree in government and economics from Harvard  College.

With the  appointments  of Draper and Storch,  the Sprint  board  stands at nine
directors. Seven of the nine directors are independent based on the board's 2003
determination.  Gary Forsee, Sprint chairman and chief executive officer, is the
only employee director.



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Sprint's other directors include: DuBose Ausley, attorney,  Ausley & McMullen, a
law firm in Tallahassee,  Fla., where he was chairman from 1982 to June 1, 2002;
Irvine O.  Hockaday,  Jr.,  retired  president  and chief  executive  officer of
Hallmark Cards,  Inc.;  Linda Koch Lorimer,  vice president and secretary of the
university,  Yale  University;  Charles E.  Rice,  chairman  of Mayport  Venture
Partners,  LLC; Louis W. Smith, retired president and chief executive officer of
the Ewing Marion Kauffman  Foundation;  and Stewart Turley,  retired chairman of
Eckerd Corporation.

For   more   information   about   the   Sprint   Board  of   Directors,   visit
www.sprint.com/ir/cg/bod2.html.

About Sprint
Sprint  is a global  integrated  communications  provider  serving  more than 26
million  customers in over 100 countries.  With  approximately  68,000 employees
worldwide and nearly $27 billion in annual revenues, Sprint is widely recognized
for developing, engineering and deploying state-of-the-art network technologies,
including the United States' first nationwide all-digital,  fiber- optic network
and  an  award-winning   Tier  1  Internet   backbone.   Sprint  provides  local
communications  services in 39 states and the  District of Columbia and operates
the largest 100-percent  digital,  nationwide PCS wireless network in the United
States. For more information, visit www.sprint.com.













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                                    SIGNATURE

     Pursuant to the  requirements  of the Securities  Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant  has duly  caused  this  report  to be  signed  on its  behalf by the
undersigned, hereunto duly authorized.


                                    SPRINT CORPORATION



Date: December 9, 2003
                                    By: /s/ Michael T. Hyde
                                        Michael T. Hyde, Assistant Secretary





















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