’04
Missy Pope ’04 and Benjamin Wolff were married May 18 at The First Church, Simsbury, Conn., with a reception at Hop Meadow Country Club. The newlyweds and members of the wedding party gather in this photo: Katherine Dunlop ’04, Michael Demirjian, Kathryn Virzi, Michael Migliorino, Kathryn Farley ’04, Michael Jackson, Beckie Pope Aderholz ’02, Maddy Aderholz, Emerson Aderholz, Benjamin Wolff, Missy Pope Wolff ’04, Christopher Wolff, Amy Wolff, Andrew Morley, Natalie Moutoussis, Megan Langman, and Tyler Aderholz. Missy and Benj live in Farmington, Conn., with their two cats. Missy is social media manager at Loomis Chaffee.
’06
India Daley ’06 received her master’s of education degree from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, May 13.
empty nesters, growing families, veterans, and young professionals. In the future I hope to continue to grow my business and become the best young broker in my market.” His website is www.leibowitzrealty.com/ alex-kaplan/.
2005
Sarah Wilson went from Pelican maroon to Harvard’s crimson and donned red, white, and blue for the United States, but the number 17 has been a constant throughout her 58 |
athletic career. A former field hockey, ice hockey, and softball player at Loomis and former ice hockey player at Harvard, Sarah was selected to represent the United States in the World Ball Hockey Championships held in Toronto June 3–9. Sarah relates: “To some, this sport is reminiscent of gym class in elementary school, where you dominated everyone during the week that they presented us with the plastic, bendable blade sticks and tried to teach the concept of passing. To others, it reminds us of playing in the street with the neighborhood kids. Since finding a good paying job is tough when your resume talks about poke checks, I was too poor to have a car or pay entrance fees into an ice hockey league the year after college. The only answer to my athletic longing was a sport that required tennis shoes and a stick. I joined a pick-up league around my apartment and quickly involved myself in the ball hockey world. The deeper my passion became, the more I played. The more I played, the
more I realized I had stumbled upon America’s best-kept secret. I was only touching the surface of a sport that was deep in talent and young in establishment. As I found more serious leagues, I was also introduced to the fact that the USA has a street hockey national team. I decided to try out and, after three tryouts, made the team. Ball hockey, street hockey, dek hockey — whatever term you choose to use, this sport is an awesome option after the college career has ended. … I have found an outlet for my hockey retirement that fulfills my competitiveness and keeps me as a functioning member of society.” The women’s world champion this year was Canada, with Slovakia as runner-up and the Czech Republic in third place.
2009
Following graduation from Amherst and having surmounted the series of highly-competitive pre-actuarial exams, Alex Butensky began his actuarial internship this summer at the Hartford Insurance Company.
Jesse Chapman won the BIG EAST decathlon on May 4 at the 2013 BIG EAST Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Piscataway, N.J. A junior at UConn, Jesse reached the top of the podium with 7,437 points, and he helped the Huskies to dominate the decathlon, with his teammates finishing second, fourth, fifth, and ninth. In the decathlon, each athlete competes in 10 different running, jumping, and throwing events. Individuals earn points in each event based on their performances, and the decathletes’ overall scores determine final placing in the event. Jesse finished first in all of the throwing events — the shot put (15.29 meters), discus (44.62 meters), and javelin (60.37 meters). He also placed second in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.03. At Loomis, Jesse was a standout thrower and hurdler on the track team. He attended Bates College for his freshman year then transferred to UConn. He competes for the Huskies in the seven-event heptathlon in indoor track and in the