Alumni Spotlight – Jay Good ‘78

Jay Good sees his service on the SYCSD Foundation Board as “an opportunity to give back to the community where you live.” Jay and his wife Susan (Herr) ’78 have designed their respective career paths with an enduring connection to Southern York County as their community of choice. In fact, they’ve lived nowhere else. He is a product of Glen Rock and still lives in the neighborhood where he grew up.

While at Susquehannock, Jay was a defensive back on the football team and wrestled, lettering in both sports. He was also active in student government, serving as class president in his senior year. He remembers teachers Tom Kerrigan, Susan Schultz, Tom Naylor, George Gerba and Principal Leroy Krebs as role models.

Jay attended York College, majoring in business management. Throughout his school careers – high school and college – Jay worked part time at Smith’s Super Market and Smith’s Country Kitchen, the family businesses.

After his college graduation in 1982, he accepted a job at Penn Air and Hydraulics in York, working through the customer service department to its manager position in five years. His next position was with the Glen Rock State Bank as its internal auditor. It was a small bank, and Jay had a variety of other duties. It wasn’t long before his affable personality proved that he had greater value working directly with people and he moved into commercial and personal lending and any other bank function that required customer contact.

His rise through the bank hierarchy required a move to the bank’s Red Lion branch and eventually to Loganville where he was branch manager. The ‘State Bank’ was subsequently purchased by Community Bank and most recently by Susquehanna Bank. Jay now uses his banking and finance background in his own business, auditing loans as a sub-contractor with a number of banking concerns, providing service at client locations.

In the community, Jay presents a continuing record of service and leadership. He was active in the Glen Rock Jaycees for more  than 20 years, serving as its president. He served as a Trustee at Immanuel United Methodist Church. He was active as a coach in the SYC youth sports organization. Jay’s involvement with scouting began in 1995, when his son, Andrew, entered Cub Scouts.  Jay continues his commitment to scouting in Boy Scout Troop 48 in Glen Rock as an Assistant Scout Master.

He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Southern York County School District Foundation since 2002. The foundation sponsors programs benefitting students. It also serves as the ‘parent organization’ for the Susquehannock High School Alumni Association.

Like his roots in the community, Jay’s roots as a Warrior are prominent in his life. His wife, Susan (Herr), currently a medical transcriptionist, was in his graduating class. His daughter, Megan, graduated from SHS in 2005 and son, Andrew, graduated in 2008. Megan earned a master’s degree from Drexel University and is director of the library and archives at the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia. Andrew, an Eagle Scout, is a U.S. Marine, stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

Thanks to Jay Good, Class of 1978, for making us Warrior Proud.