Though Cathy, now 92, was less involved in day-to day operations than in years past, sons Dan (COO) and Donald (senior VP) inherited their father aversion to financing expansion through debt, preferring to reinvest CFA'.s profits. Cathy made no secret that low (or no) debt was, in part, a reaction to his childhood: "In the Great
Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it. We are just about debt-free right now (2010], stretching that dollar as far as ii will go. If you have debt, you have to worry about it.