Philanthropist, businessman, matched kindness with integrity

When Betsy Kane-Hartnett and her two sisters were growing up, in suburbs north of New York City, the family always had dinner together at the dining room table. “My dad was the guy who worked seven days a week,” Kane-Hartnett says, “but he never missed dinner.”

What Kane-Hartnett didn’t know until later in life was that her dad, Stanley Kane, after the kids left the table and went to bed, would go back to work. He would spread out his papers all over the dining room table, working usually until midnight.