Sankaty Head Caddie Program Mission

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
Sankaty Head Foundation
PO Box 875
Siasconset, MA 02564
June - August: 508-257-6297
Sept - May: 508-479-5936
Program Director - Dave Hinman

Camp Sankaty Head