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MICHAEL L. HAIDER
1 904-1 986
BY WALKER L. CISLER
M~c~ ~ WIDER, chairman of Exxon Corporation from
1965 to 1969, (lied on August 14,1986, at his home in Atherton,
California.
Born on afarmin Mandan, North Dakota, on October 1,1904,
Michael Haider was one of eight children of a wheat rancher and
his wife. He was a 1927 graduate of Stanford University with a
B.A. in chemistry. He joined the Exxon organization in Tulsa,
Oklahoma, in 1929 as a chemical and petroleum engineer with
Carter Oil, one of the company's affiliates. He became chief
petroleum engineer and then header! all phases of engineering
work for Carter before being transferred in 1938 to Exxon's
research organization in New York as manager of production
engineering and research.
In 1945 hejoined the corporation as executive assistantin the
Producing Department and a year later moved to Toronto as
manager of the Producing ant! Exploration Department of
Imperial Oil, Limited, a Canadian company in which Exxon
hell] a 70 percent interest. He was elected a director of Imperial
in 1948 and vice-president in 1950.
Mr. Haider returned to Exxon's corporate headquarters in
NewYork in 1952 and served for two years as deputy coordinator
of the company's worldwide producing activities. He then be-
come president and a director of International Petroleum Com-
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MEMORIAL TRIBUTES
pany, Limited, which was responsible for Exxon's operations in
parts of South America.
In 1959 he was elected a director of Exxon Corporation, a year
later became vice-president and director with responsibility for
Latin America, and in 1961 was elected executive vice-president
ant! a member of the Executive Committee. In 1963 he was
elected president and vice-chairman of the Executive Commit-
tee, and in 1965 he became chairman of the board, chief
executive officer, and chairman of the Executive Committee, a
position he held until his retirement in 1969.
Mr. Haider was a founding member of the National Academy
of Engineering. He was a past chairman of the American Petro-
leum Institute and a past president of the American Institute of
Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers. He was direc-
tor of the Economic Development Council of New York City; a
trustee of the Committee for Economic Development; and a
member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National
Petroleum Council, and The Business Council.
He was a former chairman of the Radio Free Europe FuncI;
and a former member of the board, cochairman of the Develop-
ment Committee, and a member of the Finance Committee of
The Metropolitan Opera. He was also a director of the First
National City Bank.
He heal honorary degrees from the University of Miami,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and C.W. Post College of Long
Island University. Mr. Haider was elected to the Institute de
Cultura Hispanica of Spain in 1962 and was awarcled the Gran
Cruz de la Orden del Merito Civil (Greet Cross ofthe Civil Order
of Merit) by the Spanish government in 1969. In April 1968 he
received an honorary doctor of engineering and the Engineer-
ing Centennial Medal from PMC College in Chester, Pennsylva-
nia. In ~ 969 he received The John Fritz Medal, grantedjointly by
the five professional societies representing mining, civil, me-
chanical, electrical, and chemical engineers, and was a member
of Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society.
In 1969 he received the Cavaliere de Gran Crose, the highest
recognition of the Italian government. In 1970 he received the
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MICHAEL L. HAIDER
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Charles F. Rand Award from the American Institute of Mining,
Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers.
Mr. Haicler was survived by his wife of fifty-eight years, Alice,
one daughter, and three grandchildren.
As chief executive officer of one of the worId's largest corpo-
rations, Mr. Haider was one of the pioneers in the globalization
by U.S. corporations in overseas markets. He earned a reputa-
tion as an innovator who got things done. He undertook many
jobs where changing times and situations caller! for changing
business methods. He was a longtime sailboat enthusiast, mainly
at Cape Cod, summer home of the Haiclers, their daughter, and
their daughter's family. He also had an interest in archaeology
and Peruvian and Columbian artifacts.
Mr. Haider will best be remembered as a distinguished petro-
leum engineer and outstanding executive, whose skill and expe-
rience in research, exploration, and production greatly contrite
uted to progress of the petroleum industry throughout the
world, and whose imaginative leadership as chairman and chief
executive of firer of one of the woricl's great corporations earned
him the respect and admiration of the entire business commu-
nity.
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