I just got my Miami University alumni magazine, and I was saddened to learn of the death of Robert Kane, who taught me four years of Latin and a year and a half of Greek; he was, I'd guess, the best instructor I ever had. When we weren't talking about Latin, we were raving about musical theatre. He was from Manhattan, and he'd been going to theatre since he was a child. Whenever I got bored discussing Virgil, I'd ask him about the 1956 production of CANDIDE, which he'd seen over a Christmas holiday from Holy Cross. He was a genius, a wonderful teacher, and the world's a less intelligent place today.
He was young. He died on January 2, eight days before his 76th birthday.