Wayne Van Saun ’71

[node:field-image-collection:0:render]We lost one of our most eclectic classmates when Wayne died Oct. 11, 2013, after a 16-year battle with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

Wayne came to Princeton from Mainland Regional (N.J.) High School. A brilliant student, Wayne graduated with highest honors in chemical engineering and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He lived in Foulke junior year and was a member of Stevenson.

After graduation from the University of Pennsylvania medical school, Wayne did his pediatrics residency in Philadelphia and in New York City. He then worked on the famed Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and in Milwaukee. His longest professional stint was as a primary-care pediatrician for Capital Health Services near Albany, N.Y., for 17 years.

In 1999, health and other issues shifted his career to medical publishing and technology applications in medicine.

Wayne married his second wife, Anne, in 1984, and they had two daughters, Amy and Marjorie. After divorce, he married Cynthia and was close to his stepdaughters, Rachel, Olivia, and Becca.

A masterful cynic and self-described “friendly curmudgeon,” Wayne was a man of many talents and deep convictions: medical editing, fiction writing, Scrabble, gardening, fund-raising for CLL, Quakerism, world peace, the environment, and White Sox and Phillies baseball.

We will miss his compassion and versatile mind. The Class of 1971 extends its sympathy to his family and friends.