Dayton Tire Co. President John Lampe to executive vice president of Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. and president of BFS Tire Sales Co., in place of Sunil Kumar who became president of GAF Materials Corp.'s commercial products division; Dayton Tire Co. Plant Manager Tom Crofutt to president of the company;
Jerry Hoberman, owner of Omaha, Neb.-based Tires Inc., to Del- Nat Tire Corp. chairman;
William Babek, owner of Babek Commercial Tire Systems, Avenel, N.J., to American Retreaders Association president;
Falken Tire Corp.'s Nick Tajima to president, in place of Henry Umegaki;
Avellinos Tire & Auto Service Centers' President Daniel Gillings to Englewood Tire Distributors Inc. as retail division senior vice president;
Kazuo Najai to Toyo Tire (U.S.A.) Corp. president, in place of Soichiro ``Steve'' Kiyama;
Giovanni Ferrario, former managing director of Pirelli Group's tire manufacturing and sales company, to president and CEO of Pirelli Armstrong Tire Corp., in place of Paul Calvi;
Oliver Rubber Co. executive John Woodland Jr. to consultant at Standard Products;
P. David Campbell to president and CEO of Dunlop Tire Corp., in place of P.K. Fujita;
Floyd Ewton to president of 4day Tire Stores and Macho Tire Co. following the death of co-founder Donald Carr;
Paul Bobzin, owner of La Canada Tire Center Inc., La Canada, Calif., to National Tire Dealers & Retreaders Association president;
Tire retailing consultant John Wagner to president of Metro 25 Tire;
Goodyear executive vice president of North American tires Samir Gibara replaced the retiring Hoyt M. Wells as president and COO. Eight months later, he was named CEO, a post held by Chairman Stanley C. Gault, who plans to retire in 1996.
Emery Dean Bray Sr., 88, founder of Bray's Recapping Service in Mount Airy, N.C.;
Donald Carr, 58, co-founder and CEO of Irvine, Calif.-based 4day Tire Stores and Macho Tire Co.;
Ellsworth Gisel, 88, executive director of the Western Canadian Tire Dealers & Retreaders Association, 1974-1984;
Earl Hathaway, 91, president of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., 1964-1970;
Victor Leerhoff, 69, executive director of the North Central Tire Dealers & Suppliers Association, 1987-1994;
Charles C. Leonard Jr., 75, former co-owner and president of Parrish & Leonard Tire Co. in Charlotte, N.C., and president of the National Tire Dealers & Retreaders Association, 1975-1976;
Gerard Rhine, 69, former owner of Mark Morris Tire Store chain in California;
Fred Simmons, 65, executive director of the Arkansas Independent Tire Dealers Association;
Sam Winston, 54, co-founder and chairman of Burbank, Calif.-based Winston Tire Co.;
Harold Ziegler, 94, who co-founded Ziegler Tire & Supply Co. in Canton, Ohio, in 1919.
Max Katz, founder of Merchants Tire Co., in Avon, Mass., celebrated his 100th birthday;
P. Lebzelter & Son Co. celebrated its 95th year as a Goodyear dealership;
Universal Tire Co. commemorated its 50th anniversary;
AKH Co. Inc., dba Discount Tire Centers, based in City of Commerce, Calif., turned 20;
Flip's Tire Center owner Flip Smith won TIRE BUSINESS' second annual ``Tire Dealer Humanitarian Award.''