Monday, January 6, 2025
i am so sorry to learn that Skip Kane has passed away. I had been asking friends if they knew how Skip was doing, because I have not seen him since Hildegarde died. We sometimes met for coffee after Mass at St.Ignatius, and he was as curious about the world - especially how his investments were doing - as I had ever known him. He liked to laugh, and he sometimes expressed wonder that he had been appointed Rector of St. Paul's College so soon after he earned his doctorate. Skip was much liked by historians at the University of Manitoba when I first joined it in 1996. Indeed I first met him at a Christmas/New Year's party organized by a historian, to which my husband and I had also been invited.
Skip Kane was a good and decent man. May he rest in peace now.
