When you entered Croton-Harmon High School (CHHS) in the 1970s, you quickly learned the morning school custom of eating delightful Ossining Italian Bakery donuts and drinking a carton of milk in the school cafeteria. As a fund raiser, each senior class at CHHS would sell donuts, (chocolate cookies) and milk in the school cafeteria. But most school alum would agree that the packed cookies paled in popularity compared to the freshly baked warm donuts. The smell of sweet glazed donuts and fruit flavored jelly donuts sprinkled with a sugar and cinnamon permeated the first floor of the building from the doors on the west of the school to steps leading up to the double doors for the library on the left and the shop on the right. That mouth-watering smell remains one of my most vivid high school memories. The bakery truck delivered the donuts every school morning from Ossining, the next village southeast of Croton on the banks of the Hudson River. On a cool Hudson Valley morning, eating one of those warm donuts for a quarter with a carton of cold milk for the same price tasted like heaven on earth. One of the faculty members of the school became so utterly roundly associated the daily morning ritual that we students dubbed him the “donut man.”
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