Messages and Calendar each on separate accounts?

Before I install Mountain Lion on my elderly father's MBAir, I'd like to know if I can set this up:
-- Have his Messages work with his Apple ID / email address, so he gets and sends his own messages.
-- Have his Calendar be linked to my Apple ID (my iCloud) so I can remotely maintain his calendar for him.
-- Have his Messages include his AIM identity so we can do remote Screen Sharing within Messages (incredibly handy for fixing his problems, without long car trips)
I'm pretty sure the first and last ones are a given, but I'm not sure if I can have separate logins for Messages and iCloud.

Update -- I tried my original proposal.  It works.  That is, On my dad's MBAir I used his AIM ID and his Apple ID as two accounts on Messages.  Thus we can Screen Share for remote problem solving and he can do messaging.  And I used my Apple ID for iCloud on his MBAir, allowing me to change his calendar for him.
Beware -- in the process I accidentally had both his and my iCloud accounts running on his machine, and mistakenly merged Contact lists.  It was a bear to undo, and required dumping a VCard file of my contacts into my iCloud.com Contact list to fix it.  I may not have solved it the most efficient way, but it worked.

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