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Lear Corporation Appoints David C. Wajsgras To Vice President - Controller    

13 October 1999

Lear Corporation Appoints David C. Wajsgras To Vice President - Controller    

    SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Oct. 13 -- Lear Corporation
today announced the appointment of David C. Wajsgras as Vice President -
Controller.
    (Photo:  http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19991013/DEW011 )
    As Vice President - Controller, Wajsgras is responsible for all accounting
and financial reporting functions of the corporation, reporting to Lear Senior
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Donald J. Stebbins.
    Wajsgras joins Lear from Engelhard Corporation in Iselin, New Jersey,
where he was Corporate Controller.  He previously was employed at AlliedSignal
Inc., and General Electric where he held various financial and operational
positions.
    Wajsgras earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the
University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland (USA) and a Masters of
Business Administration degree in Finance from the American University in
Washington, D.C. (USA).  He is a certified public accountant and a member of
the Financial Executives Institute.
    Wajsgras and his wife, Teena, have three children and are in the process
of relocating from Mendham, New Jersey (USA) to Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
(USA).
    Lear Corporation, a Fortune 200 company headquartered in Southfield,
Michigan (USA), is one of the world's largest automotive suppliers, with 1998
proforma sales of more than $12 billion.  The company's world-class products
are designed, engineered and manufactured by more than 100,000 employees in
over 300 facilities located in 33 countries.  Information about Lear and its
products is available on the Internet at http://www.lear.com