Mc Burney School
McBurney School was a college preparatory school in Manhattan run by the YMCA of Greater New York.
Among its alumni are actors Henry Winkler and Richard Thomas, physician Lewis Thomas, journalists Ted Koppel and Gordon Joseloff, musicians Adam Horovitz and Richard Goode, historian David Brion Davis, and financiers Bruce Wasserstein and Felix Rohatyn.
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