J. Evan Sadler ’73

Evan died Dec. 13, 2018, in Clayton, Mo., of a rapidly progressive neurodegenerative disease. He was 67.

He attended Huntington (Va.) High School, where he played varsity tennis. At Princeton he majored in chemistry, graduated summa cum laude, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was a member of Colonial Club.

Evan earned medical and scientific degrees from Duke, where he also completed his residency in internal medicine. He completed a fellowship in hematology at the University of Washington in Seattle. In 1981 Evan married Linda Pike, and in 1984 they moved to St. Louis to take up faculty positions at Washington University.

Evan was the Ira M. Lang Professor of Medicine and the chief of the division of hematology. He was president of the American Society of Hematology and won the organization’s Henry M. Stratton Medal for Basic Science in 2016, followed by its Exemplary Service Award in 2018. Evan was also a competitive ballroom dancer.

Among his classmates and colleagues, Evan will be remembered for his extraordinary intellect, his excellence in scientific endeavors, his remarkable gifts as a teacher and mentor, his ever-present kindness, and his profound compassion.

Evan is survived by his wife, Linda; children Brooke and Evan D. ’09; his mother, Clara; and his two grandsons, Jasper and Dexter Haller. The class extends our sincere condolences to them.