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Goodyear Vice President James Boyazis to Retire

6 June 2000

Goodyear Vice President James Boyazis to Retire

    AKRON, Ohio - The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company announced today that James
Boyazis, 63, vice president, secretary and associate general counsel, will 
retire July 31, after nearly 37 years of service.

    "For more than three decades, Jim's broad business perspective has been a
major influence in our law department and among our senior management," said
Samir G. Gibara, Goodyear's chairman, chief executive officer and president.

    A native of Warren, Ohio, Boyazis began his career with the company's
former Goodyear Aerospace subsidiary in 1963 as a systems analyst.  Three
years later, he was transferred to the parent company's industrial engineering
group and assigned to the start-up of the Goodyear tire plant in Greece.  In
1971, he returned and was named manager of administration in the corporate
secretary's office and, in 1977, became assistant to Chairman Charles J.
Pilliod.

    Boyazis was named director of the secretary's office in 1979 and elected
secretary and counsel of Goodyear Aerospace in 1982.  He was elected to his
present position in 1987.

    He earned a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from Youngstown
State University and a law degree from The University of Akron.  In 1985,
Boyazis completed the advanced management program at Harvard University.

    The responsibilities of the corporate secretary will be assumed by
C. Thomas Harvie, who is currently senior vice president and general counsel.

    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.