Goodyear Salutes Inventors from Around U.S.
18 September 1998
Goodyear Salutes Inventors from Around U.S. AKRON, Ohio, Sept. 18 -- If you drive a car, squeeze the
Charmin, write with ink, ride in airplanes, wear rubber gloves, use power
tools, drink beer or soda, live near a nuclear power plant, or use a computer,
you can thank the inventors being honored here tonight at the Goodyear
Technical Center.
Thirty-eight inventors and discoverers from across the United States who
have worked their magic on those items and others are being recognized at
Goodyear's sixth annual National Salute to Inventors.
At an event like this, you'd expect to find inventors who work on more
arcane projects as well as the everyday, and they are here too, people who
pore over microscopes and test tubes and poke, prod and perfect the likes of
mono-cyclopentadiene metallocenes, wet spun bi-component water reversible
crimp acrylic fiber and aromatic polyamide negative bi-refrigerant retardation
films.
Hosted by Sam Gibara, Goodyear chairman, CEO and president, the event is
held in conjunction with Induction Weekend at the National Inventors Hall of
Fame in Akron.
Emcee for the Goodyear event is Lee Rosenbaum, publisher of Discover
magazine, which awarded its prestigious Discover award an unprecedented twice-
in-a-row to Goodyear, in 1992 for the company's industry-leading Aquatred wet
traction tire and in 1993 for the runflat tire.
Inventors honored at the Goodyear dinner are (alphabetically by last name)
Hossein Arjomand, Hewlett-Packard, Sunnyvale, Calif.; Paul C. Badavas, the
Foxboro Company, Foxboro, Mass.; James A. Belmont, Cabot Corporation,
Billerica, Mass.; James A. Benzing II, Ramesh N. Gujarathi, Timothy M. Rooney,
Robert Schisler, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio and John
Roedseth, Goodyear Luxembourg; Philip J. Boos, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent
State University, Kent, Ohio; Jo Ann Canich, Exxon Chemical Company, Baytown,
Tex.; Gary J. Capone, Solutia, Inc., Decatur, Ala.; Stephen Z. D. Cheng and
Dr. Frank W. Harris, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio; E. Douglas Dickens,
Jr. and Edward R. Stover, The BFGoodrich Company, Brecksville, Ohio; John
Dougherty, The Timken Company, Canton, Ohio; William L. Howe, ACC Automation
Company, Akron, Ohio; and Russel J. Kerkman, Rockwell Automation/Allen-
Bradley, Mequon, Wis.
Others are Young D. Kwon, AlliedSignal, Inc., Morristown, N.J.; William J.
Langer, MTS Systems Corp.; Eden Prairie, Minn.; Timothy G. Lindholm, Sun
Microsystems, Palo Alto, Calif.; Eleftherios M. Logothetis, Ford Motor
Company; Dearborn, Mich.; Aslam A. Malik, GenCorp, Sacramento, Calif.; Roger
A. McCurdy, TRW, Inc.; Lyndhurst, Ohio; Paul J. McWhorter, Sandia National
Laboratories, Albuquerque, N. M.; Albert L. Moore, DuPont Dow Elastomers,
Wilmington, Del.; Trazollah Ouhadi, Advanced Elastomer Systems, Ltd.; Belgium;
Eric G. Parker, Illinois Tool Works, Inc., Glenview, Ill. and Jon O. Reynolds,
Miller Electric subsidiary of ITW, Appleton, Wis.; Manian Ramesh, Nalco
Chemical Co.; Naperville, Ill.; Stephen F. Roth, Tenneco Automotive, Monroe,
Mich.; Yukihiko Sasaki, Avery Dennison, Pasadena, Calif.; Jerome A. Seiner,
PPG Industries, (deceased), Pittsburgh, Pa.; John R. Slavens, Chemstress
Consultant Co.; Akron, Ohio; Jack A. Soules, Cleveland State University,
Cleveland, Ohio; Toan Trinh and Paul D. Trokhan, The Procter & Gamble Co.,
Cincinnati, Ohio; and H. Kumar Wickramasinghe, IBM Corp., Yorktown Heights,
N.Y.
