Sarah T. Bond, Anna Henriques, Paul E. Bevensee, Zofia H. Hulak.
Sarah T. Bond
Retired school teacher
Sarah Turner Bond of Princeton died Dec. 5. She was 90.
Born in Savannah, Ga., Mrs. Bond lived in Princeton 54 years.
She was a schoolteacher before retiring.
She studied architecture at Auburn University for four years and took a fifth year at Columbia University. She then went to Paris to attend the École des Beaux Arts and the Sorbonne, from which she received her diplome superièure.
Upon returning to the United States, she joined the engineering firm of Day & Zimmerman in Philadelphia.
After her marriage and raising three daughters, she returned to academia, receiving a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from The College of New Jersey. She taught school until her husband retired from the RCA Corp.
She was a member of the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Princeton and was active in the Historical Society of Princeton and the local chapter of AARP.
Wife of the late Donald Bond, who died in 2001, she is survived by her daughters, U.S. District Court Judge Janet Bond Arterton of New Haven, Conn., Susan Turner Bond of Parker, Colo., and Lt. Col. Margaret Spencer Bond of Amman, Jordan; granddaughters Cameron duBignon Arterton of Washington and Jamison Bell Arterton of Boston; and great-grandson Clayton T. Arterton Wrinn.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Historical Society of Princeton, 158 Nassau St., Princeton, NJ 08540 and the local chapter of the AARP, 732 Keefe Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648.
There will be no calling hours or memorial service.
Arrangements are by Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton.
Anna Henriques
Mathematician at Institute
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. Anna Stafford Henriques died Nov. 28 at home. She was 99.
A mathematician, she was a member of the newly formed Institute for Advanced Study from 1933 to 1935 and taught at the University of Nebraska, University of Utah and the College of Santa Fe before retiring.
She was one of only two women at the Institute when she came to Princeton, three years after it was founded and then located at Princeton University’s Fine Hall. The faculty included James Alexander, Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, Oswald Veblen and Hermann Weyl.
How an orphaned child who studied at the Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio, specializing in a field where women were a rarity, managed to study with the world’s eminent mathematicians in Princeton is a tale of pluck, self-confidence, persistence as well as sheer ability. Ms. Henriques’ story was the subject of an article in the Institute newsletter, Attributions, in 2001.
Born in Chicago, she shared with her mother a love of mathematics and began focusing on the field as a career at 14. She majored in mathematics and Greek in college and after graduating in 1926 spent summers at the University of Chicago graduate school and taught high school mathematics in New Jersey the rest of the year.
After hearing a lecture on topology, she decided to pursue studies in that field and determined that the world’s leading topologist was Oswald Veblen at Princeton University. After writing to the university and receiving a postcard back saying, "We don’t take girls," she turned her focus to the newly formed Institute for Advanced Study with which Professor Veblen was associated. She wrote to Professor Veblen in March 1933 and later met him when he visited Chicago.
"He said if I could get my (Ph.D.) degree in August, I could come to the Institute never dreaming that I could possibly do it," she recalled. But she did do it, although her professor had to agree to teach the subject for the first time and the two had to learn Italian and use a handwritten text. On Aug. 31, she wrote to inform Professor Veblen of her doctorate and out of scores of applicants, she was one of 17 admitted to the Institute.
In order to earn a living, she arranged to teach private secondary school in Mendham in the mornings and commute to the Institute every afternoon, always in time for 3 p.m. lectures followed by afternoon tea and another series of lectures and studies with Einstein and other members of the faculty.
In addition to the social life revolving around afternoon teas, she recalled other social events, and one dance in particular, in which she was among six women and 20 men. She recalled having "the best waltz you ever had in your life" with a tall mysterious man who didn’t say a word as they danced all over the room, "shamelessly." She later learned her partner was P.A.M. Dirac, who shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1933.
Discovering that she loved to teach, she left the Institute in 1935 to take a position at the University of Nebraska and later the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, where she met her husband. She then joined the mathematics department at the College of Sante Fe, eventually becoming department chairman before retiring in 1971.
Wife of the late Douglas Henriques, who died in 1987, she is survived by a son, Vico Henriques of Arlington, Va.; two granddaughters; and five great-grandchildren.
Paul E. Bevensee
Headed local news service
SMITHVILLE Paul Edwin Bevensee died suddenly at home Dec. 6. He was 69.
Born in Newark, he lived in the Princeton area most of his life.
He was the founder and president of Princeton-Windsor News Service, a newspaper and magazine delivery company based in West Windsor, until retiring in 1988 and moving to the Smithville area.
He served in the Army Reserves between 1958 and 1964.
He is survived by his father, Edwin, of Lakehurst; sons and daughters-in-law Glenn and Sandra of Northfield, Scott and Katherine of South Brunswick and Gregg of West Windsor, and their mother, the Rev. Donna M. Bevensee of West Windsor; and grandchildren Kristin, Aleksander and Kara.
A memorial service will be held 3 p.m. today at Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, 40 Vandeventer Ave., Princeton, with the Rev. Bevensee officiating.
Calling hours are 2 to 4 p.m. today at the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association, 600 South White Horse Pike, Audubon, NJ 08106.
Arrangements are by Boakes Funeral Home, Mays Landing.
Zofia H. Hulak
Daughter lives in West Windsor
CRANBURY Zofia Husiatyska Hulak died Dec. 2. She was 94.
Born in Horyniec-Zdrój, Poland, she came to the United States in 1950 and resided in New York City until moving to Cranbury in 1957.
In 1939, she and her husband and daughter were captured in Poland and sent to a forced labor camp in Germany. Following the liberation of the camp in 1945, she and her family continued to live in Germany until they were able to emigrate to America in 1950.
She enjoyed gardening and sold vegetables and fruit at a roadside stand on North Main Street in Cranbury. She was devoted to animals, children and worship.
Wife of the late Julian Hulak, she is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Christian and Boley of West Windsor; and grandchildren Alexander and Edward.
Arrangements were by A.S. Cole Son & Co., Cranbury.

