Louis Isaac Kane

Background

Kane, Louis Isaac was born on March 25, 1931 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of George Ernest and Sally Charlotte (Smith) Kane.

Education

AB, Harvard University, 1953.

Career

President, Chief Executive Officer, director Kane Financial Corporation, Boston, 1958-1972. Chief Executive Officer, director, chairman board directors Healthco, Inc., 1967-1971. General partner Boston Partners, 1972-1983.

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, director Au Bon Pain Company, Inc., 1978-1988, co-chairman, co-Chief Executive Officer, director, 1988-1994, co-chairman, 1994-1998, chairman, 1998-2000.

Membership

Democratic committee chairman McGovern Finance Committee, Massachusetts, 1972. Councilor Harvard College Fund, 1971-1973, 75-85, vice chairman, 1978-1985, 91-98, co-chairman since 1998. Member executive committee on university resources Harvard University, co-chairman gift committee Class of 1953.

Co-chairman Harvard Campaign for Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Honorary trustee Institute Contemporary Art, Boston, 1990, president, 1967-1975. Trustee West End House, Inc., since 1970, vice president, 1975-1989, president, 1989-1998, chairman, since 1998.

Trustee DU Club Harvard, president, since 1987. Trustee Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts, since 1992, Fly Club, Harvard University, 1996. Board directors Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, since 1976, Harvard Alumni Association, 1981-1985, 91-93, 98—, Boston Municipal Research Bureau, since 1990.

Member corporation Massachusetts General Hospital. Trustee Ogunquit Museum of America Art, Maine. Past board directors or trustee Eaglebrook School, Deerfield, Massachusetts, Cambridge School, Weston, Massachusetts, Boston Zoological Society, Artists Foundation Boston, Charles Playhouse, Boston.

Captain United States Marine Corps, 1953-1958. Member Union Boat Club, Somerset Club, Harvard Club of Boston (board directors 1977-1982), Harvard Club of New York City.

Connections

Married Katharine Fitzhugh Daniels, September 21, 1957. Children– Elizabeth Holliday, Jennifer Johnston, Joseph Daniels.

Father:

George Ernest Kane

Mother:

Sally Charlotte (Smith) Kane

Spouse:

Katharine Fitzhugh Daniels

child:

Joseph Daniels Kane

child:

Jennifer Johnston Kane

child:

Elizabeth Holliday Kane