William McCray Evans ’45

BILL EVANS died Jan. 22, 1991, at his home in Indianapolis, after a long and courageous battle with lymphatic cancer, Bill was a lifelong resident of Indianapolis and a lifelong friend of Phil Huston, since the two were grade school, high school, and college classmates. Bill served with the Tenth Mountain Division as, a military intelligence staff officer in WWII. Bill did not return to Princeton after his war service, but received a degree based upon his total credits; he then took his law degree from Harvard and married Connie Steele shortly thereafter, in 1949. They had five children.

Bill practiced law with one firm for almost all of his career, once he returned to Indianapolis from a brief stint in Chicago. At his death he was the senior partner of the law firm of Bose, McKinney and Evans, and he was for many years a leading member of the Indiana Bar, participating in such prominent cases as those involving the move and retention of the Baltimore Colts to Indianapolis, legislative reapportionment appeals, and innumerable school board litigation. Indeed, at his death, the Indianapolis news paid tribute to him as the voice of calm and reason in the heat of school desegregation battles.

The Class extends its deep sympathy to Connie and to Bill's children and grandchildren.

The Class of l945