John Dismukes Mallett ’41

John died of heart trouble on May 15, 2002, in Pacific Palisades, Calif. He prepared for Princeton at the Asheville [N.C.] School and the Allen Stevenson School in NYC. At Princeton he majored in physics, joined Court Club, and roomed with Hart Moore and then Charlie Chubb.

Immediately after graduation he joined Sperry Gyroscope Co. and, during the war years, worked on fire control and pulse doppler radar. He left Sperry to go to MIT, where he earned his master's in physics in 1946.

John then returned to Sperry, but in 1949 moved to the Rand Corp. in Santa Monica, Calif. He left Rand in 1972 to work for Technology Service Corp., before starting his own business, Adaptive Sensors, in 1980, still working on radar.

An avid sailor, he and a group of friends built a 43-ft. catamaran, which he loved to sail. A series of heart problems and surgeries never slowed him down. In later years he turned to building remote-controlled gliders.

John is survived by his wife of 57 years, Susannah (Sue) Townsend Mallett, son George, daughters Margaret Harris and Katherine Krier, and seven grandchildren.

The Class of 1941