From Jed Dallek

I first meet Steve 35 years ago as a sophomore at Syracuse University. His first comment to me was" Hi I am Steven Good from Chicago" wherein he went on to talk with me for over an hour and told me of the organizations he belonged to. I told him that since I was 6" 4' inches tall I was always going to be taller then him and that I really didn't care who he knew or how many organizations he belonged to. If he wanted to be my friend it would be based upon what developed between the two of us.

We remained friends for all these years and recently went to our 30 year reunion at Syracuse University this past September wherein we meet a few people on campus and Steve would say "Hi I am Steve Good from Chicago" and Steve went into his speech of how many people he knew and how many organizations he was part of. You had to know Steven to realize that this was his way of saying to me that he was just as tall as anybody. We laughed about how his speech was the same and how long his list of accomplishments had grown since I first meet him. At that point he turned to me and said " I love you Jed as a true fiend and if there was anything in the world he could do for me all I had to do was ask. I turned to him and said that I already knew that and that I didn't need to know of all the organizations he belonged to or the people he knew and that as a true friend he was in fact a bigger man then I was.

Steve Good had a heart of a giant. There wasn't anything he wouldn't do for myself or all his friends and was always concerned about the people he meet, his partners in business and mostly his family. To all the people who were at the memorial in Chicago and to those who couldn't be there I would hope that we remember Steve Good for all the thousands of great things he accomplished during his life and the people he helped and genuinely cared for.

The pain that we all feel right now will eventually fade but the memories of Steve Good will last the rest of our lives.

Your friend,

Jed