Our business was started in 1900 by my grandfather. He was succeeded by my father, who actively ran the company until the mid-1950s.
My brother, Richard, and I are our parents' only children; I am 65, the elder by seven years. We each entered the business after graduating from college. Because the stock in the corporation has not been widely distributed, we have had the opportunity to maintain continuity in family values and philosophy through three generations, and now into the fourth. Our company, Newcan, in Holbrook, Massachusetts, manufactures perforated metal tubes and components for the filter industry.