Meet Doane Stuart’s Headmaster

Dr. Richard D. Enemark has been a teacher and administrator at independent schools and colleges for over 30 years. He holds his A.B. from Colgate, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa; an M.A. from the University of Vermont; a Master of Philosophy from Columbia University; and his Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature, with highest distinction, from Columbia.

He has served independent schools in various roles, including College Counselor, Dean, and Headmaster, at schools as diverse as Burke Mountain Academy (a school for international ski racers, where he started his teaching career), and Phillips Academy, Andover.

Dr. Enemark was a member of the National Commission of Independent Schools of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, and has served on many boards, including the Board of Burke Mountain Academy,where he was co-chair of the Governance Committee, and the Foundation Board of the Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce.

The 2009-2010 academic year marks Dr. Enemark's twelfth year at Doane Stuart. Dr. Enemark serves on the faculty in the Upper School's English Department, teaching seminar classes in Austen, Dickens, and Tolstoy. He is the father of Forrest ('12) and Faith ('03), a recent graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Dr. Enemark's wife, the late Nancy Lawton, was a nationally recognized artist whose works are in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock; The Metropolitan Museum, New York; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; and the Albany Institute of History and Art. Her drawings are regularly included in exhibitions at the Arkansas Art Center; the Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York; the Hunt Institute for Botanical Representation at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh; and the National Academy of Design, New York.  Hirschl & Adler Modern Gallery has represented Ms. Lawton's work since 2001.