Kathryn Clarenbach; Co-Founder of NOW

Kathryn Clarenbach, 73, who helped found the National Organization for Women. Clarenbach organized NOW in 1966 with Betty Friedan, and--as president of NOW’s Legal Defense and Education Fund--she was credited with getting the Wisconsin Legislature to revise laws on sexual assault, divorce and marital property. In Wisconsin, she was chairwoman of the Governor’s Commission on the Status of Women, which held hearings throughout the state from 1964 to 1978. She retired in 1988 as a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin. Her career as an educator included years of developing programs for women. In Madison, Wis., Friday of the complications of emphysema.