A beloved former principal is being remembered as a respected educator who “loved a laugh and to have fun” after he suffered fatal injuries falling through a skylight at a Melbourne school. Paul Hogan, 61, is believed to have been retrieving balls from the roof at St Margaret Mary’s School in Spotswood when he fell 3m to the concrete ground below about 2.30pm on Thursday. He suffered critical head injuries and was taken to hospital, where he died on Friday.
“Paul was a friend and mentor to many in our MACS community and he will be dearly missed.” Hogan’s first classroom teaching role was in 1988 and went on to teach in several schools in Melbourne’s north and west. He served as principal at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School, Sunbury in 2009 and later as principal at St Mary’s Primary School in Ascot Vale in 2016, until his retirement in 2022.