Arianne Scholz Kassof, a Princeton resident since 1961, died on Tuesday, September 17, 2013, at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia of complications following heart surgery. She was 81 years old.

Born in Philadelphia, she was the daughter of Dr. Karl W. H. Scholz and Carol Krusen Scholz. She was educated at Friends Central School, the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Pennsylvania.

She met her husband, Allen H. Kassof, in Vermont in 1950 at the Shawnee Institute for World Affairs, an international summer camp for high school and college students. They were married in her parents' home in Media, Pennsylvania in 1953 and moved to Cambridge, where she worked at the Sanborn Corporation to help support Allen's graduate studies at Harvard. She subsequently worked at Maclean Hospital in Belmont, where she ran the patient library.

Arianne was an avid volunteer. Among the organizations that benefited from her superb organizational, editing, and social skills were the Princeton University League, where she served as president; the International Center of Princeton University; and the parent-teacher organizations of her children's schools.

In 1979 Arianne co-founded the Princeton Hub, a social gathering place for adults with mental illness or developmental challenges. She left the Hub in 1987 when her first grandchild was born. She cherished her time with all of her grandchildren, and was especially proud to provide daycare for the two local ones.

She was the curator of the Cameron Gallery in Princeton from 1996 to 1998. In 2000 she began serving as a docent at Grounds For Sculpture, where she continued to lead tours and edit the newsletter until shortly before her death. Arianne was a member of the Present Day Club of Princeton and the Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study.

A consummate homemaker and cook, Arianne loved nothing more than entertaining people in her home, which she dubbed "the Ari-Inn." Countless guests reveled in her hospitality.

Arianne is survived by her husband, Allen; daughters Annie, Arlen (Tom Hastings), and Anita (Joshua Neiman); her siblings, Carol Snow and Bill Scholz; and grandchildren Deja Kassof, Sara and Kevin Hastings, and Sophie and Daniel Neiman. She was predeceased by one grandson, Julian Harned.

Memorial donations may be made to Grounds For Sculpture at www.groundsforsculpture.org/donate or by check to 18 Fairgrounds Road, Hamilton, NJ 08619. (Please put "Arianne Kassof" in the comments field.)

A memorial service will be scheduled.

Any errors in this obituary are the responsibility of its authors, who are bereft of Arianne's editing skills.