Growing up in Hammonton, Chuck Donohue Jr. spent some of his summers working at Glossy Fruit Farms, helping with the process of culling and packing tomatoes and cucumbers.
ANOTHER ERA ENDS: After many years as Southern Regional High School athletic director, Kim Cole (left) passed the torch to Chuck Donohue Jr. This week, he hands over that same torch after 16 years as the Rams’ AD. (Supplied Photo)
“I was a guy who stuck the bin in the tank and fished them out, put them on the conveyor belt, and then they’d get waxed and packed,” he recalled, describing many of the days during his teenage years. “I’d get dropped off at 5 a.m. to start making the boxes, but tomato and cucumber season was crazy.
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