At the beginning of the month, Jonathan Lamb took over as interim headmaster of Storm King School, succeeding Paul Domingue. Lamb had served as assistant headmaster for four years.
The Storm King School Board of Trustees accepted the resignation of two-year headmaster Paul Domingue, effective June 30. Assistant Head of School, Jonathan Lamb, has assumed the role of interim head for the 2014-15 school year effective July 1.
Lamb grew up in Grand Island in western New York. Upon graduating from high school, he spent a year of natural, academic, and wilderness study using Maine as a classroom. He joined a program called Maine Reach where he took wilderness trips, studied issues related to nature, and participated in an internship as a teacher.
He worked in an elementary school in Brunswick, Maine for just a month, but it was enough to get the teen excited about teaching and education.
Lamb attended Bethany College, in West Virginia, where he earned his bachelor’s degee in elementary education. He later earned his Master of Arts in Liberal Studies in literature from Wesleyan University, and his master’s degree in leadership education from Teachers College, Columbia University.
His first teaching job was at Rumsey Hall School, a junior boarding school in Washington, Conn. He served 10 years as English department chair and summer school director.
In 1990, Lamb left for another boarding school, Perkiomen School in Pennsburg, Penn. He was initially hired as director of studies and then became head of the upper school. His wife also taught at the school where their two daughters graduated.
After 20 years in Pennsylvania, he applied for an opening at Storm King School. As an avid hiker, Lamb immediately fell in love with the Hudson Valley. He was hired as the academic dean, but within a month he was named assistant head of school. Lamb has served in that capacity for the last four years.
While Lamb will serve as interim headmaster, the Board of Trustees is expected to begin searching for a permanent headmaster. Lamb said he could retain the position, or fall back to his previous job.
In the meantime, Lamb said he will continue Domingue’s vision of expanding the school. The next step is to put a shovel in the ground on the next phase in the school’s master plan – a new academic center. The center will allow for more classroom space to accommodate an increase in the student population. Lamb also plans to continue bringing the school into the 21st century by introducing more technology.
