When Peter Williamson called to announce that Al McCarthy had died, he said, "there's been a death in the family." And indeed there has. Al's death was an apparent suicide. Born Feb. 27, 1938, he died Feb. 20, 1997, at his house on Lake Erie.
Al was president of the Princeton Club of Western New York and was a participant in many reunions and class affairs. A lifetime resident of Buffalo, N.Y., he attended the Nichols School there. At Princeton, Al majored in politics and joined Charter Club and was active on the Alumni Schools Committee and the Class of '60 Council.
After Princeton he returned to Buffalo and was a director of Buffalo Electric Co. and Buffalo Aeronautical Corp. He was a director of the BuffaloErie County Historical Society, president of the Nichols School alumni board, secretary of the SPCA, secretary of Meals on Wheels, and a deacon of the Westminster Church. He will be missed sorely by his classmates who had come to rely on his steady and willing assistance on many classrelated tasks.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Harris McCarthy, with whom he lived, and by brothers Daniel and Peter, and an aunt, Mrs. J. C. Taylor s'45. To his family and many friends, the class extends its sincerest condolences.
The Class of 1960