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Goodyear Directors Re-elected, Dividend Declared

10 April 2000

Goodyear Directors Re-elected, Dividend Declared

    AKRON, Ohio, April 10 Shareholders of The Goodyear Tire &
Rubber Company today re-elected Thomas H. Cruikshank, Katherine G. Farley,
Steven A. Minter and Agnar Pytte to terms on the company's board of directors.
Their three-year terms expire at the 2003 annual meeting.
    Cruikshank is the retired chairman of the board of Halliburton Company.
Farley is senior managing director of Tishman Speyer Properties.  Minter is
president and executive director of The Cleveland Foundation.  Pytte is the
retired president of Case Western Reserve University.
    The remaining seven directors are as follows:

    * John G. Breen, William E. Butler and George H. Schofield, whose terms
      expire at the 2001 annual meeting, and
    * Samir G. Gibara, William J. Hudson Jr., William C. Turner and Martin D.
      Walker, whose terms expire at the 2002 annual meeting.

    Shareholders also ratified the re-appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP as the company's independent accountants for 2000.
    The board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of 30 cents a share.
The dividend is payable June 15, to shareholders of record May 16.  The payout
represents an annual rate of $1.20 per share.
    The board also re-elected all Goodyear officers for the coming year.
    Goodyear is the world's largest tire company.  Headquartered in Akron,
Ohio, the company manufactures tires, engineered rubber products and chemicals
in more than 90 facilities in 27 countries.  It has marketing operations in
almost every country around the world.  Goodyear, with the addition of its
Dunlop tire joint ventures, employs more than 105,000 people worldwide.