The Late Waldo Proffitt Jr. on Growth
Longtime editorial writer and managing editor of the Herald Tribune Waldo Proffitt Jr. died Dec. 6. This reflection was shared with us by Dan Lobeck: Waldo Proffitt Jr. October 8, 1924 - December 6, 2016 As Managing Editor of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune from 1961-1998, and as a columnist and editorial writer, Waldo Proffitt helped shape Sarasota County for the better (together for most of that time with Publisher David Lindsay). He always favored carefully managed and controlled growth, as reflected in these interview excerpts. Waldo Proffitt is greatly missed. From an Interview – 10/16/2013: … growth is not necessarily good, it’s only the right kind of growth that will help the community remain a good place for people to live and that is the product that Sarasota has to sell: that this is a good place to live. And I believe that that idea has become fairly widely circulated, I certainly hope so. ... Well, don’t let yourself get overwhelmed by d...