In the controlled setting, young men learn honesty and integrity, self-control, independent decision-making within defined standards, personal responsibility, loyalty to a cause and group, control of personal finances and the satisfaction of a job well done.
Caddies develop into well-rounded and responsible citizens, capable of being productive in the complex personal and professional world. During their summer experience, caddies also encounter a few of the adversities of life, and learn how to cope with them. This experience is an integral part of life training.
A caddie’s development is the essence of the Sankaty Head Program. The program facility is not just a place where young men come to get a job and earn money. This happens. More fundamentally, the Sankaty Head Caddie Program is a place where lifelong friends are made, where a caddie becomes a member of an enduring select group, preserved through life in the Program’s alumni association. Caddies become part of a family. They work hard, they play hard and they mold into a lifelong fraternity of friends.
Longtime Program Director, Norman Claxton wrote in 1996, “ the Sankaty Caddie Program is not the buildings or the place. It is the concepts and philosophy reflected in friendships among the caddies and staff.”
Sankaty Head Caddie Program
