Returning to Fairborn High School where he compiled outstanding athletic achievements as a student, S. Jack Gayheart started his professional career as a successful teacher and coach. He has since become president of a major real estate management firm and has gained recognition as a dedicated leader of community causes and organizations.

A native of Hazard, Kentucky, he moved to Fairborn in 1942 and had his 12 years of public schooling in the Fairborn City Schools. He graduated with the Class of 1958 from Fairborn High School, where he had a brilliant record in interscholastic sports, receiving the most athletic letters of any male in Fairborn High School history.

He was awarded four letters in football, four in baseball, and three in basketball. A quarterback and interior linebacker on the varsity football team, he won all-league honors, was selected for the Ohio North-South All-Star football game, and received honorable mention on the All-Ohio football team and honorable mention on the National Prep All America football team. A pitcher and third baseman on the baseball team, he was selected on the East-West Ohio All-Star baseball team. He is the only Fairborn athlete ever chosen to play on both the East-West baseball team and the North-South football team.

In basketball, he gained honorable mention on the all-league team. As a senior, he received the scholar/athlete award as the letter winner with the highest grade point average for his four-year high school career.

He attended Miami University on a full football scholarship, playing quarterback for the Redskins for four years, receiving three letters and serving as co-captain one year. In 1961, he was the second leading passer in the Mid-America Conference and was honorable mention on the all-league team. He was a pitcher on the Miami University baseball team and earned two letters.

He received his bachelor of science in education in 1962 from Miami University, where he was a member of Phi Delta Kappa, a national education honorary. He earned his master’s in education from Miami in 1966. He has completed his coursework toward his Ph.D.

From 1962-68, he was on the faculty of Fairborn High School as an industrial arts and drivers’ education teacher and served as assistant coach in football, basketball, and track and was the junior boys’ counselor. He was Fairborn’s head basketball coach from 1964-68. His 1966-67 basketball team compiled a record of 17 wins and 2 losses and won the Western Ohio League championship. He served as an assistant coach and scout for the University of Dayton football team for two years and was a member of the Ohio Basketball and Football Coaches Association.

He was a member of the Fairborn City Schools’ Board of Education from 1976 to 1984 and served as vice president and president. He is a member and present chairman of the Fairborn City Schools’ Business Advisory Council, helping to develop dialogue between the business community and the city schools.

After leaving the teaching/coaching field, he began a career in real estate and property management and is a Certified Property Manager, the highest designation in the property management field. He is currently owner and president of J. R. Remick, Incorporated, a real estate management and consulting firm in Dayton, Ohio. He is also president of J. D. J. Construction Company, Incorporated, a wholly-owned subsidiary of J. R. Remick, Incorporated.

He has served as secretary-treasurer, vice president, and president of the Dayton chapter of the Institute of Real Estate Management, dedicated to serving professional needs of supervisory and executive property managers. He received the Institute's first Manager of the Year Award in 1984.

He is a member and has served as a board member of the Dayton chapter of the Building Owners and Managers’ Association. He has also served as a state of Ohio BOMA board member for four years.

He has been a member of the board of directors of Peoples Savings Bank since 1979.

He is a member and has served as president of the Fairborn Area Chamber of Commerce and received the Chamber’s President’s Award in 1987 and 1991. He has also served as chairman of the building committee for the new chamber building.

He is a member and past chairman of the Greene County Area Progress Council; a member of the Challenge 95 Committee; past president of the Rona Hills Voice Citizens Committee; past president of the Greene Country Club; a member and Paul Harris fellow of the Fairborn Rotary Club; and a former member of the Fairborn Lions Club.

He is presently serving as chairman of the Fairborn YMCA Board of Management and was building fund chairman of the YMCA’s 1979 capital improvement campaign for the expansion and modernization of YMCA facilities.

He and his wife, Judy, are the parents of Christopher, Kirk, and Kerri and have one granddaughter, Casey Alexandra.