Roy V. Armes Scholarship Fund

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The Roy V. Armes Scholarship was established to honor Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. Chief Executive, Roy Armes. Armes joined the company as president and CEO in 2007 and served in that role for nearly a decade, until his retirement on August 31, 2016. The award is for a full-time freshman student attending an accredited four-year college or university and is renewable for up to three additional years. The intention of the Fund is to award a scholarship to the child, including biological, adopted, step or via guardianship, of a current Cooper Tire & Rubber Company employee.

Standards for Determining Eligibility

• The applicant must be a graduating high school senior and the child, either biological, adopted, step or via guardianship of a legacy Cooper Tire & Rubber Employee. An employee is identified as a U.S. citizen who was a full-time employee at a legacy Cooper Tire & Rubber Company location and is a current employee of Cooper/Goodyear. Cooper Tire & Rubber Company legacy locations are those under the Cooper name on or before June 7, 2021.
• The applicant must be pursuing a degree in Engineering or Business.
• The applicant must plan to be a full time student enrolled for his or her first year at an accredited four year college or university.
• The applicant must have maintained a minimum cumulative 3.0 GPA in high school.
• Applicant must be a resident of the United States of America.
• Students who receive full scholarship support from other organizations or institutions will not be considered for this scholarship.

About Cooper Tire

Cooper Tire, a subsidiary of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (Nasdaq: GT), specializes in the design, manufacture, marketing and sale of passenger car, light truck, medium truck, motorcycle and racing tires. Cooper is headquartered in Findlay, Ohio, with manufacturing, sales, distribution, technical and design operations located in more than one dozen countries around the world. For more information on Cooper, visit www.coopertire.com.

About Goodyear

Goodyear is one of the world’s largest tire companies. It employs about 72,000 people and manufactures its products in 54 facilities in 23 countries around the world. We strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry. For more information about Goodyear and its products, go to www.goodyear.com/corporate.