The Walden School was co-founded in 1972 by David Hogan , Pamela Layman Quist , and Lynn Taylor Hebden following the death of Grace Newsom Cushman , the founder of the Junior Conservatory Camp ( also commonly referred to as the " JCC " ) . The JCC was founded in the 1940s in Baltimore , Maryland , and was considered the spiritual predecessor camp of The Walden School . The Walden School , which began in Reisterstown , Maryland , was situated on the campus of the Mountain School from 1976 to 1982 , a small rural private boarding school in Vershire , Vermont . In 1983 , due to the impending sale of the Mountain School , Walden moved to the Dublin School in Dublin , New Hampshire , where it has been held ever since . On July 17 , 1996 , David Hogan was one of the victims of the TWA Flight 800 crash
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