Caggiano Award

The Caggiano Memorial Alumni Award is presented during the graduation ceremony each May in memory of James Caggiano, a graduate of the Class of 1965. It honors a graduate or former student of the Spartanburg Day School who has not considered graduation as the end of their time at SDS, but has come back to make a significant contribution to the school. These award winners embody what it means to be "forever a Griffin."

1971 Jo Willa Gramling ‘65
1972 James Wray ‘64
1973 James Caggiano ‘65
1974 Col. T.B. Ergle
1975 Charles New, Jr. ‘66
1976 Neilie McCullough
1981 Celia Watson’66
1983 G. Bryon Hodge, Jr. ‘70
1984 Thomas Young, III ‘70
1985 John Hodge ‘73
1986 Ben Stone ‘77
2001 Chris Cannon ‘79
2001 Ricky Richardson ‘71
2002 Wickie Willard ‘78
2003 Billy Blackford ‘75

2004 Ginger Davis ‘80
2005 Susan Dunlap ‘81
2006 Manning Lynch ‘74
2007 Chris Crowley ‘75
2008 Eric Foust ‘88
2009 Anne Brady Moore Carlson ‘01
2010 Loy Jeffords ‘77
2011 Dr. Wallace Taylor
2012 Garrett Scott ‘83
2013 T. Alexander Evins
2014 The Hon. Landya Boyer McCafferty ‘80
2015 Rick Dent
2016 Eliot Stone ‘89
2017 Betsy Richardson
2018 Bill Hamilton '79
2019 Celia Cooksey '86
2020 Gary Clark
2021 Jay Wakefield '80

Jay Wakefield '80 receiving the Caggiano Memorial Alumni Award