McCarthy, Mary Abigail, 1949-1990.

A graduate of Radcliffe College (A.B. 1970), McCarthy received her law degree from New York University (1976) and taught at Yale Law School, where she was co-director of the school's legal clinic and specialized in legal services for juveniles, the disabled, prison inmates, immigrants, and the indigent. The daughter of Senator Eugene McCarthy, she participated in her father's unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1968. She died of pancreatic cancer in Branford, Conn., in 1990.