McBurney School was a boys college-preparatory school in Manhattan run by the YMCA of Greater New York. Its name commemorates Robert Ross McBurney, a prominent New York YMCA leader during the late 19th century.
Among its alumni are actors Henry Winkler, Robert De Niro, Richard Thomas,[1] physician Lewis Thomas, journalists Ted Koppel, Haynes Johnson,[2] and Gordon Joseloff,[3] designer/inventor Bran Ferren, musicians Adam Horovitz, Richie Birkenhead and Richard Goode, historian David Brion Davis, J.D. Salinger, and financiers Bruce Wasserstein[3] and Felix Rohatyn.[4]
- ^ "Richard Thomas". www.nndb.com.
- ^ "Conversation with Haynes Johnson, p. 1 of 4". globetrotter.berkeley.edu.
- ^ a b "Bruce Wasserstein’s Westport Connection", Westport Now, Thursday, October 15, 2009
- ^ Profile: Felix Rohatyn, US State Department