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Jack Critchfield
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(Originally published in the Maddux Report, 1989)
Jack Critchfield is impatient.
He figures everyone must knowby now how productive the coming
together of Hillsborough and Pinellas counties could be on regional
and economic issues. He just can't figure out why there are any
foot-draggers left among us.
"I think, 'Why can't they see it as clearly as I do?' Then
I realize they haven't been through it before and they're still
protecting regional boundaries," says Critchfield, president
of the $3.5 billion Florida Progress corporation (its subsidiaries
include Florida Power, Talquin, Mid-Continent Life, Progress
Credit Corp. and Electric Fuels Corp.). "It seems so obvious
that it's necessary I sometimes get impatient with the education
process."
For Critchfield, "bridging the bay" means deja vu.
It repeats the process he experienced in Greater Orlando in the
late '1970s and early '80s as the Mouse Kingdom dealt with the
growing pains of maturing from back water into boom town. Critchfield
was president of Rollins College for 10 years, followed by stints
as president of Winter Park Telephone Co. and its parent United
Telephone Company of Florida before joining a Winter Park division
of Florida Power in 1983.
"Some of what we're going through I have to inspire myself
again for because it's a cookie-cutter repeat of going from local
to regional thinking," he says.
Although he has only been in the Bay area since January 1987,
Critchfield made an immediate impact on regional business affairs.
He pressed the Pinellas County Committee of 100 and Suncoast
Chamber of Commerce to combine forces and eventually be redubbed
the Pinellas Economic Development Council, of which Critchfield
is now chairman. Through it, he has a platform to push loudly
and powerfully for greater Hillsborough and Pinellas unity and
cooperation.
"We need business and political leaders who understand there
is strength in regionalism," says Critchfield. "There
is strength that doesn't depend on regional or county borders."
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