Jut died suddenly of natural causes Feb. 8, 2008.
He came to Princeton from Wood-Ridge (N.J.) High School, where he was valedictorian of his class. Considered a child prodigy, he entered Princeton after having won a national piano competition. A year later, Jut decided to call an end to his musical career and switched to economics.
In the late 1960s he became acquainted with and trained by Bob and Mary Goulding in developing the psychological theory of Transactional Analysis (TA). With the encouragement of Bob Goulding, Jut wrote Success Through Transactional Analysis, a best-seller geared to bring TA principles to the business community. This was followed by How to Run Your Own Life, a self-help book for the public. Jut was identified by Business Week as a pioneer in applying TA to business-management situations, noting that his book was used by the policy committee of Citicorp, a longtime client.
In recent years, Jut returned to his consulting business and was finishing two books on TA geared to fine-tuning the business-community model. Prior to his death, he had engaged the services of literary agent Jacques de Spoelberch and had obtained book endorsements from classmates as well as other Princetonians.
To Elissa, his wife of 44 years, the class extends sincere condolences.