02442mpc  2200289   4500001000800000005001700008008004100025035002300066035002200089040001900111100003700130245004200167300002700209545131100236520023501547555003301782524011901815600002801934610002101962610003601983610002702019650002802046655001702074655001402091656002602105905002102131206731519920409120000.0840213i19091976nyu                 eng d  a(CStRLIN)NYCV84A64  a(NIC)notisAKQ4070  aNICcNICeappm1 aCollyer, John Lyon, d1893-1979.00aJohn Lyon Collyer papers,f1909-1976.  a9 cubic ft.,b5 tapes.  aJohn Lyon Collyer was born at Chelsea-on-Hudson, New York in 1893, to a family of shipbuilders and boat operators. He attended Cornell University and graduated in 1917 with a degree in mechanical engineering. During these years he was a member and later coach of the crew team. He took a job with Bethlehem Steel in their Wilmington shipyards. In 1923, he accepted the vice-presidency of the English-owned Dunlop Tire and Rubber Company in Buffalo, New York, and worked his way to the position of co-managing director of Dunlop's international operations. In 1930 he married Georgia Forman Elliot, a widow with two children. Collyer and his wife had a daughter, Georgia, in 1930. At this time he moved to England, continuing to work for Dunlop until 1939, when he moved back to the U.S. to assume the presidency and chief executive position at B.F. Goodrich Co., in Akron, Ohio. He contributed greatly to the development and production of synthetic rubber, a material in great demand in World War II. Collyer served in this position with Goodrich for 25 years, and was on the board of directors of several corporations, including Cornell University. A benefactor of Cornell, he gave the Collyer Boathouse on Cayuga Lake inlet. Collyer died in 1979 at Vero Beach, Florida.bCornell University Class of 1917.  aPhotographs, correspondence, printed items, speeches, clippings, films and tapes concerning the public activities of John L. Collyer. Material covers his tenure as president of B.F. Goodrich; most of this material concerns rubber.  aUnpublished guide; brochure.  aJohn Lyon Collyer. Papers, #3265. Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Cornell University Libraries.10aElliot, Georgia Forman.20aBethlehem Steel.20aDunlop Tire and Rubber Company.20aB.F. Goodrich Company. 0aMechanical engineering.  aPhotoprints.  aSpeeches.  aMechanical engineers.  a19920409120000.0