AREA PEOPLE OF NOTE

* David O’Sullivan, the longtime Executive Director of the Community Soup Kitchen retired Dec. 31 and was replaced by Interim Executive Director, Joshua Lamarr Watkins, at left. O’Sullivan started at CSK as a volunteer in 1980 and served as the Executive Director for the last 33 years. He was also a part of the former Mobile Night Soup Kitchen which was in a different church every night of the week and eventually became the Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen. He guided CSK from serving less the 100 meals a day to what is now New Haven’s busiest and longest tenured congregate eating site. In retirement, he says will have more time for his passion projects like gardening and can relax by catching up on lots of books and movies. To learn more aboutthe soup kitchen, go to csknewhaven.org, Facebook (csknewhaven) or donate at: givegreater.cfgnh.org/organizations/community-soup-kitchen. * Isabella Raffone, a Lasell University student from East Haven, was inducted into the Commission on Sport Management Accreditation's student honor society Feb. 10. Program Chair and Associate Professor of Sport Management Bill Nowlan nominated Raffone for their academic excellence and achievements in the field of sport management. Raffone was recognized for achievement by the larger COSMA community at the organization's annual conference.

* IXL Learning, the K-12 personalized learning program used by 11 million students, recently announced its seventh annual Elite 100 list. The Elite 100 recognizes top teachers out of 700,000 educators from around the world who have demonstrated the highest commitment to helping their students learn through IXL. One of those teachers is Tina Taylor from Mohegan Elementary School in Shelton, the only teacher from Connecticut.