David P. Robbins
David Peter Robbins, 61, of Princeton, died on September 4 of pancreatic cancer. A former member of the Princeton Regional School Board, he was a research mathematician, teacher, and noted cryptologist. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He moved to Princeton in 1980 to work at a Defense Department mathematical research facility, the Institute for Defense Analyses, where he solved classified mathematical and cryptological problems. In 1996 he won the National Security Agency's Exceptional Service Award, given every few years for significant contributions to the security of the United States. The NSA Chief of Research and Technology said Dr. Robbins' work helped to realize "an unrivaled victory over one of the greatest research challenges in the history of cryptanalysis." He was the author or co-author of more than 100 papers on mathematics, including his most widely known, non-classified theorems and conjectures on alternating sign matrices. His analysis of the mathematical work of Charles Dodgson, also known as Lewis Carroll, led Dr. Robbins to postulate a series of conjectures, which puzzled researchers for 15 years. According to Jim Propp, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, these conjectures "defied assaults by some of the world's best mathematicians." In the last seven years, many of them have been proven to be correct and have furthered work in fields as diverse as quantum mechanics, computational algebra, and abstract mathematical symmetry. Dr. Robbins was also a teacher. Early in his career, he taught at the Fieldston School in New York City and at Phillips Exeter Academy. He also taught at Hamilton College and Washington and Lee University. In 1992, he was elected to the Princeton School Board, where he served for six years, one as president. He is survived by his wife, Deborah; a son, Matthew Eli; his stepmother, Sheila Robbins of New York; two sisters, Marjorie Robbins Friedlander of Pacific Palisades, Calif., and Ann Aknin of Dana Point, Calif.; a half-brother, Peter Robbins of New York; two stepsisters, Barbara Morgan of Sayreville, and Meredith Hardy of Palm Desert, Calif.; and a stepbrother, Thomas Hardy of Worcester, Mass. The funeral was September 7. Interment was in Princeton Cemetery. Arrangements were by The Kimble Funeral Home. Memorial contributions may be made to PanCAN, 2211 Rosecrans Avenue, Suite 131, El Segundo, Calif. 90245.

Robert C. Welch
Robert C. Welch, 72, of Princeton, died September 4 at home. Born in Salem, Mass., he had lived in Princeton for 32 years. He attended Fordham University from 1950 to 1953 and the University of Paris from 1952 to 1953. He served in the U.S. Army from 1953 to 1955. He was employed for many years by International Schools Services in Washington, D.C., New York City, and Princeton, and subsequently worked for Kathryn Trenner, Esq. A writer and poet who used the nom de plume Salmon Ryder, he was a long-standing member of U.S. 1 Poets and Writers Cooperative of New Jersey, and received a grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Son of the late J. Frank Welch and Helen Reagan Welch, he is survived by two daughters, Sara Welch of Jersey City and Lily Welch of Cincinnati, Ohio; their mother, Joanne Colley of Charlottesville, Va.; and a sister, Helen Jameson of New City, N.Y. A memorial service will be held at Kimble Funeral Home at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, September 10. Interment will be private. Calling hours at the funeral home on Wednesday will be from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. The family invites mourners to pray and worship privately, or at a Catholic mass at 12:10 p.m. on Wednesday at St. Paul's Church. Memorial contributions may be made to the Multiple Myeloma Foundation, 3 Forest Street, New Canaan, Conn. 06840; or the American Lung Association, P.0. Box 2006, Princeton 08543-2006.

Janet A. Mitchell
Janet Aldrich Mitchell, 75, of Princeton, died September 2. She was the founder of The Mitchell Guide: A Directory of New Jersey Foundations, and a prominent Township Democrat in the 1980s. Born in Providence, R.I., she was a longtime Princeton and Pennington resident. She graduated from Smith College and received a master's degree in education from Rutgers University. She served as treasurer of her class at Smith College and was a trustee of the New Jersey Historical Society. She was also executive officer of the Princeton Community Democratic Organization from 1984 to 1986, and won election for a Township Committee seat in 1986. She worked for various foundations and nonprofit organizations, including the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and the Department of Higher Education in Trenton. Her most significant contribution to philanthropy, however, was The Mitchell Guide, which she served as executive editor and publisher. Since 1976, the Guide has published information on thousands of New Jersey foundations, enabling nonprofit organizations and other groups to more easily access foundation grants. She is survived by two daughters, Lydia Mitchell of Arlington, Va., and Polly Mitchell Ranson of Pennington; and two grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. on September 27 at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Pennington.

Richard L. Warren
Richard L. Warren, 60, of Princeton Junction, died September 6 at Compassionate Care Hospice. Born in Newark, he had been a resident of Princeton Junction for the past 16 years. A graduate of New York University, he was a certified financial planner. He was an avid golfer and member of Cranbury Golf Club. He is survived by his wife, Ruth; two daughters, Tammy Friedman of Coral Springs, Fla., and Danielle Warren of New York City; his mother, Sylvia Warren of North Lauderdale, Fla.; a brother, Jerome of St. Louis, Mo.; and two sisters, Penny Chester of Atlanta, Ga., and Ruthann Warren of Hewlett, N.Y. The funeral service was September 8 at Orland's Ewing Memorial Chapel, Ewing Township. Burial was in Freehold Hebrew Benevolent Cemetery, Freehold. Memorial contributions may be made to Compassionate Care Hospice, 601 Hamilton Avenue, Trenton 08629; or Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, P.0. Box 27106, New York, N.Y. 10087.

Wesley P. Townsend
Wesley P. Townsend, 60, of Princeton, died September 6 of complications from Pick's disease. A holder of 16 patents, he was the inventor of the touch screen for the computer industry. Born in Farmingdale, Long Island, he was a 1961 graduate of Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, N.Y., and a recipient of a N.Y. State Regents scholarship. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1965 with a B.A. in chemistry. At Dartmouth, where he had an undergraduate research fellowship through the National Science Foundation, he was a member of the Dartmouth Glee Club, on the Dartmouth swim team, and a member of the Sigma Epsilon fraternity. He worked for a year for Union Carbide in 1966 and taught briefly at Horace Greeley High School. He received a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of Florida in 1971, where he had a graduate research fellowship with the American Chemical Society. After graduation he worked for 30 years in Hopewell at the Engineering Research Center of Western Electric, which became AT&T Bell Laboratories and subsequently Lucent Technologies/Bell Laboratories. In 1973 he worked as the process engineer for the start-up of the world's largest printed circuit board factory in Richmond, Va. From 1981 to 1985 he served on the Science Advisory Committee for the Governor of the State of New Jersey. In 1985 he chaired the Gordon Research Conference on the Science of Adhesion. Working with Hall Alles and Rich Thompson, he developed the first computer touch screen technology which uses a light pen or a finger on an overlay membrane. The three men were awarded the 1986 Industrial Research 100 Award for this product, now used commercially in restaurants, banks, and stores throughout the world. In 1992 Mr. Townsend received the engineering research award for Micro-optic Technology for AT&T. In 1993 he was invited to participate in an experimental program by the United States and Japan. After a selection process that included being accepted by AT&T, the United States Department of Commerce, two Japanese Ministries and his host company, Matsushita Electric Industrial Company of Osaka, Japan, he was sent for a year to study Japanese manufacturing technology. When he returned in December, 1994, he developed a course based on Japanese manufacturing technology which was offered in Europe and North America on target costing. He was actively involved in the Boy Scouts for many years with his sons. He was an assistant scoutmaster for Troop 88 in Princeton. He also co-chaired the Princeton Chapter of the American Field Service with his wife. A man of many interests, he was a collector of 20th century photographs, ancient Greek and Roman coins, comic books and their art, and music. He enjoyed playing "Go" and handball at the Princeton YMCA. He is survived by his wife of 38 years, Judy; two sons, Wesley and Scout; two brothers, Peter of Manhattan and Robert of Brewster, N.Y.; and a sister, Lynne of Virginia Beach, Va. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, October 4 at 1 p.m. at the Princeton Unitarian Church. Memorial contributions may be made to The Hunger Project, 15 East 26 Street, New York, N.Y. 10010.

Leslie Bannon
Leslie Bannon, 47, of Ewing Township, died unexpectedly September 9 at home. Born in Mt. Vernon, N.Y., she was raised and educated in Princeton. She moved to Ewing ten years ago. She was a graduate of New York University and a classically trained pianist who accompanied many groups over the years. Daughter of the late Joseph L. and Dierdre Bannon, she is survived by a brother, Jeffrey of Webster, N.Y.; a stepson, Leo Sylvester of Madison, Wis.; and a close friend, Lindsay Power of Trenton. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, September 20 at 2 p.m. at Trinity Cathedral, Trenton, with the Rev. Canon Diane Nancekivell, Vicar, officiating. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Community Children's Choir at Trinity Cathedral, 801 West State Street, Trenton 08618.

Betty Jane Henderson
Betty Jane Henderson, 92, of Princeton and Captiva, Fla., died September 11 at Acorn Glen. Born in Spokane, Wash., she lived in Bryn Mawr, Pa. before moving to Princeton in 1946. She was a former member of the Present Day Club, a former member of Bay Head Yacht Club, a board member of Chapel By the Sea in Captiva, a member of the Captiva Civic Association; and a volunteer in Doctors' Wives Auxiliary. Daughter of the late George T. and Helen B. Eager, and wife of the late Dr. John Henderson, she is survived by a son, Jack of Plainsboro and Captiva; a daughter, Patricia Lincoln of Skillman; four grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held on Friday, September 19, at 2 p.m. at Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street. Burial will follow at Trinity All Saints' Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Chapel By the Sea, Captiva, Fla. 33924; or to Princeton Hospice, 208 Bunn Drive, Princeton 08540. Arrangements are under the direction of The Mather-Hodge Funeral Home.

Janet M. Storey
Janet M. Storey, 78, of Lawrenceville, died September 10 at Princeton HealthCare System. Born in Crisfield, Md., she was a longtime resident of Princeton Junction before moving to Lawrenceville five years ago. She was a volunteer at the Medical Center at Princeton and the Animal Placement Agency of the Windsors. She was an animal lover, and enjoyed bowling and spending time at the beach. Wife of the late Carl Clinton Storey and sister of the late Helen French, she is survived by three sons, Richard of Houston, Tex., David of Harrisonburg, Va., and Steven of Yardville; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. A memorial service was held September 15 at the Blackwell Memorial Home, Pennington. Memorial contributions may be made to the Animal Placement Agency of the Windsors (APAW), P.O. Box 162, Princeton Junction 08550; or Deborah Heart and Lung Center, Trenton Road, Browns Mills 08015. Memorial Service for Jean Smyth There will be a memorial service to celebrate the life of Jean O. Smyth on Saturday, September 27, at 11 a.m. at Trinity Church, Crescent Avenue, Rocky Hill.

David Asbury
David Asbury, 87, of Princeton, died September 10 in St. George, Utah, while visiting his daughters. Born in London, England, he served with the British Army during World War II from 1939 to 1946. In 1952, he immigrated with his family to the Princeton area, where he lived until his death. Predeceased by his wife of 57 years, Alice, he is survived by three daughters, Marjorie Asbury and Gerri Gercak of Hurricane, Utah; and Linda Schwarz of Lawrenceville; a sister, Joan Price of Jamesburg; a brother, Clifford Kent of England; seven grandchildren; and four greatgrandchildren. Memorial donations may be made to the Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad.

Demetrius McDowell
Demetrius McDowell, 38, of Plainfield, died on August 17 at New York University Hospital after a long illness. He was a graduate student in the English Department of Princeton University. At the time of his death, he was in the final weeks of completing his doctoral dissertation in the field of 19th-century American literature. Born in Queens, N.Y., he attended the High School of Music and Art in New York, then studied at Buffalo State College in Buffalo and at Rutgers University-Newark, where he received a B.A. in English in 1992. In 1993 he was admitted to the doctoral program at Princeton. In 1995 he contracted encephalitis, rendering him legally blind. Despite the impairment, he learned to scan his reading materials into a computer for vocal playback. He completed his degree requirements and worked five years on his dissertation, a study of the relations between publisher James T. Fields and authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James. He was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa in 1992. He was formerly an editor on the Rutgers Observer, writing on film, theatre, and music. In recent years he was a member of Friends Meeting in Plainfield. Burial was on August 23 at Oak Grove Cemetery in Hillsdale, Mich. A memorial service of music and readings will be held at 11 a.m. on September 27 at the First Presbyterian and Trinity Church in South Orange. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Demetrius McDowell Memorial Fund at Princeton University, c/o Nancy Kalmikoff, Gift Records, P.O. Box 5357 Princeton 08543-5357.

Margaret A. Pasek
Margaret A. Pasek, 88, of Princeton, died September 21 at the University Medical center at Princeton. Born in Philadelphia, Pa., she had been a resident of Princeton and Kingston for more than 60 years. She was a restaaurant owner in the Princeton area and also worked for Princeton Hospital. She later worked as a hospital volunteer. An avid seamstress, she loved quilting, crocheting, and various arts and crafts. She had been a parishioner of St. Cecelia's Roman Catholic Church, Monmouth Junction. Wife of the late Louis ("Butch") Baldino and the late Chester Pasek, she was also predeceased by a brother, Alphonse Good, and a sister, Lucy Persico. She is survived by two sons, James Baldino of Austin, Tex., and Alphonse Baldino of Monmouth Junction; a daughter, Rose Ida Hendricks of Las Vegas, Nev.; two brothers, Joseph Good and John Good; six sisters, Beatrice Fiorentino, Ann Boccanfuso, Phyllis Mishinski, Marie Ruane, Antoinette Steaffieri, and Ida Ciarlanti; eight grandchildren; ten greatgrandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild. A Mass of Christian Burial will take place on Wednesday, September 24, at 9:30 a.m. at St. Paul's Church, 214 Nassau Street. Burial will follow in St. Paul's Cemetery. Arrangements are by The Kimble Funeral Home.

Frank M. Soda
Frank Michael Soda, 90, of Princeton, died September 21 at the Merwick Unit of the University Medical Center at Princeton. Born in Forino, Avellino, Italy, he came to the United States as a teenager. He lived in northern New Jersey for 22 years before moving to Princeton in 1955. He graduated summa cum laude from both Montclair State College and Columbia University, and was a master teacher in French, Italian, Spanish and history. He taught foreign languages at Princeton High School, where he was the head of the modern language department. He also instituted foreign language teaching in the elementary schools. He served as vice principal at Princeton High School, and taught methodology classes at Princeton University. The French government awarded him Les Palmes Academiques for his interest and encouragement of the French language and culture. He received the Teacher of the Year award from the State of New Jersey in 1960. He was predeceased by his wife of 62 years, Elaine; a sister, Theresa Cocozza; and three brothers, Nick, George, and Michael. He is survived by two daughters, Elissa Viglianco of Melbourne, Fla., and Barbara Young of Princeton; a son, Frank Jr. of San Francisco, Calif.; a brother, Fiore, and sister, Mary Pellecchia, both of Forino, Italy; and three grandchildren. The funeral will be 8:30 a.m. Thursday, September 25 at the Mather-Hodge Funeral Home. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 9:30 a.m. at St. Paul Roman Catholic Church. Burial will follow at Princeton Cemetery. Visiting hours will be Wednesday, September 24, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home, 40 Vandeventer Avenue.

Joan Paulino
Joan Paulino, 62, a lifelong resident of Princeton, died September 22 at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York. She had worked for Princeton Advanced Components for 33 years as a manager. Daughter of the late Margaret and Louis J. Paulino, she is survived by a brother, Robert of Hamilton; and close friends Ronald Hauser, Carole Esposito and Catherine and Joe King. The funeral services will be Friday, September 26 at 1:30 p.m. at The Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, 40 Vandeventer Avenue. Burial will follow at Princeton Cemetery. Visitation will be Thursday, September 25 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York.

Robert Lessing
Robert Lessing, 81, of Princeton and Chebeague Island, Me., died September 21 at home in Princeton. A graduate of The College of Wooster, he received his MBA from Harvard Business School. During World War II, he served as a lieutenant aboard a minesweeper in the South Pacific. He was a marketing representative in the textile fibers division of the DuPont Company for 37 years, most of them in New York City. A swimmer, golfer and tennis player, he was for many years a member of Pretty Brook Tennis Club. He was a founding member of the Great Chebeague Tennis Club, a member of Springdale Golf Club and Great Chebeague Golf Club. He also belonged to The Old Guard of Princeton and was an original member of The Romeo Club. He is survived by his wife of 51 years, Mary-Alice; four daughters, Jane Fasanella of Robbinsville, Anne Woodrick of Robbinsville, Susan LaVoie of Pinedale, Wyo., and Amy Dudeck of Hamilton Square; a twin brother, Donald, of New Providence; and 18 grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at All Saints' Church in Princeton on Saturday, September 27 at 11 a.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to The Princeton First Aid Squad, 237 North Harrison Street, Princeton 08540; or The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH 44691.

Simeon Hutner
Dr. Simeon Hutner, 86, of Princeton and Ripton, Vt., died September 19 at Porter Medical Center in Middlebury, Vt., after a long illness. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, and received a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Columbia University in 1937, at the age of 19. He received an MBA from New York University in 1939. He then enrolled in the Ph.D. program in economics at Princeton University, where he completed one year before joining the U.S. Army. During World War II he served in Europe in the reconnaissance squadron of the 6th Armored Division of the Third Army, where he specialized in interrogating captured German officers. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge and later took part in the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. He received a Bronze Star and a Croix de Guerre. After the war, he taught economics at Smith College. He returned to the Ph.D. program at Princeton, and after completing his coursework, taught economics for one year at Kenyon College. In 1949 he joined Hale Pulsifer, a Wall Street investment management firm that later became Pulsifer and Hutner. After receiving his doctorate in economics from Princeton in 1951, he and his wife settled in Princeton. The first president of the Unitarian Church in Princeton, he was also president of the Princeton University Graduate Alumni Association, and a member of the Royal Automobile Club in London and the Princeton Club in New York City. He was also an avid skier and tennis player. He lived in Princeton until 1990, when he moved to Ripton, relocating his company from Wall Street to Middlebury. In 2001, the company became a division of H.G. Wellington and Company. Predeceased a year ago by a daughter, Elizabeth, he is survived by Frances, his wife of 60 years; four children, Daniel of Manchester, Vt., Nathaniel of Brooklyn, Louise of Princeton, and Simeon of Los Angeles, Calif; a brother, Herbert, of Los Angeles; a sister, Rosalind, of Ojai, Calif.; and seven grandchildren. A memorial service was held on September 29 at Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College. Memorial contributions may be made to Porter Hospital of Middlebury, Vt., or Addison County Home Health & Hospice, Inc.

George Kammeyer
George "Bill" Kammeyer, 69, of Princeton Junction, died September 22 in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at New Brunswick. Born in Englewood and raised in Dumont, he had lived in Princeton Junction for the past 44 years. He was employed as a foreman with Weiss Printers for 18 years, and was a graphic designer at QM Associates for 14 years. At the time of his death, he was an associate graphic designer for Thacker & Frank Advertising Agency in Cranbury. He was a Second Class Petty officer in the U.S. Navy with eight years of service. He was a member of Dutch Neck Presbyterian Church. He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Barbara; two daughters, Rene Seeland of East Windsor and Barbara Alamsha of Sewell; a sister, Marilyn Bunger of Glassboro; a brother, Donald of Tatamy, Pa.; and six grandchildren. The funeral was September 25 at the Saul Colonial Home in Hamilton Square. Interment was in Dutch Neck Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Princeton Junction. Memorial contributions may be made to the First Presbyterian Church of Dutch Neck, 154 South Mill Road, Princeton Junction 08550.

Marshall N. Rosenbluth
Marshall N. Rosenbluth, 76, of La Jolla, Calif., died September 28 of pancreatic cancer. He was a nuclear and plasma physicist at the University of California, San Diego, and a former director of the Institute for Advanced Study. A 1997 recipient of the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor, for his many contributions to the field of nuclear fusion and plasma physics, he was known internationally for his leadership in developing nuclear fusion as a future energy source, and for his wide-ranging contributions to national security. His work spanned the history of fusion research. Shortly after receiving his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1949 at the age of 22, he began an analysis of the scattering of relativistic electrons within nuclei, which led to his discovery of the so-called Rosenbluth formula, today a staple of college physics courses. In 1950, he was recruited by Edward Teller as one of the principal theoreticians at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico, doing classified research that led to the development of the hydrogen bomb. He later joined a small group of scientists that investigated the possible peaceful uses of nuclear energy. During this period, he led the research effort that developed the Monte Carlo algorithm, now a standard tool for research in statistical mechanics, chemistry, biochemistry and other fields. He was a senior research advisor at General Atomics in San Diego from 1956 to 1967, a professor of physics at UCSD from 1960 to 1967 and 1987 to 1993, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1967 to 1980, and director of the Institute for Fusion Studies at the University of Texas from 1980 to 1987. He retired in 1993 as a professor emeritus of physics at UCSD. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he received numerous awards during his career, including the E.O. Lawrence Prize, the Albert Einstein Award, and the Enrico Fermi Award. He was a central member of the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, and of the San Diego-based International Thermonuclear Reactor, a program to build a fusion reactor to demonstrate the feasibility of using fusion to generate power. He is survived by his wife, Sara; and four children from a previous marriage, Alan Edward, Robin Ann, Mary Louise, and Jean Pamela. Memorial contributions may be sent to the Marshall Rosenbluth Memorial Fund in the Division of Physical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego.

John C. Rutkowski
John C. Rutkowski. 82, of Princeton, died September 27 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. Born in New Brunswick, he had lived in the Millstone and Princeton area most of his life. He retired after 48 years with Johnson & Johnson of North Brunswick. He was a member of St. Paul's Church and its weekly prayer meeting group. A Eucharistic Minister, he visited the sick in their homes and nursing homes. He was also a fourth degree member and past treasurer of the Knights of Columbus Council No. 636 of Princeton. Predeceased by a son, Kurt, he is survived by his wife, Marion; a daughter, Gail Mezzanotte of Columbia, N.J.; a brother, Frank of Milltown; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated September 30 at St. Paul's Church. Burial was in St. Peter's Cemetery in New Brunswick. Memorial Contributions may be made to St. Paul's Church, 214 Nassau Street, Princeton 08542. Arrangements were by The Mather-Hodge Funeral Home.

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