McBurney School
Overview
YMCA of Greater New York
Not to be confused with the YMHA, the YWHA or the 92nd Street Y.The YMCA of Greater New York is a community service organization that promotes positive values through programs that build spirit, mind and body. The YMCA is welcoming to all New Yorkers, with a focus on the City’s youth. No one is...
. Among its alumni are actors Henry Winkler
Henry Winkler
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http://www.allamericanspeakers.com/newspeakerbio/847/index.php and Richard Thomas
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http://www.nndb.com/people/389/000087128/, novelist J. D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger
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, physician Lewis Thomas
Lewis Thomas
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, journalists Ted Koppel
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and Gordon Joseloff
Gordon Joseloff
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, musicians Adam Horovitz and Richard Goode
Richard Goode
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, historian David Brion Davis
David Brion Davis
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, financiers Bruce Wasserstein
Bruce Wasserstein
Bruce Jay Wasserstein was an American investment banker and businessman. He was a graduate of the McBurney School, University of Michigan, Harvard Business School, and Harvard Law School, and spent a year at Cambridge University...
, Felix Rohatyn
Felix Rohatyn
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, and Noel Ashman film producer/club owner
"Established in 1916 as a part of the educational program of the YMCA of Greater New York, McBurney School commemorated in its name one of the pioneers in work with boys and young men during the latter years of the nineteenth century, the first paid secretary of the YMCA of New York.
For many years the School was a part of the education department of the West Side Branch, first on West 57th Street and then, in 1929, at 5 West 63rd Street where a separate portion of the larger building was prepared for the School.
