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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Happy Snow Day (most of you, anyway...!)<div><br></div><div>The MMC 2016 is over and those in attendance are calling it the BEST CONFERENCE EVER! Thank you to Caitlin Mihalko and Anne Marie Jones for their hard work on the planning committee AND Tim Staudacher and Dan Scott for their work on the MMC Board. If you attended, please make sure you fill out an evaluation...and if you missed it, I hope you'll make plans to attend in 2017. </div><div><br></div><div>The nominating committee is developing a slate of officers for the MASTA Board and Project Directors. I'm told the ballot should be coming out very soon....so please be on the look out...and thank you in advance for taking time to vote!</div><div><br></div><div>The National ASTA Conference in Tampa is less than a month away! MASTA sent a basket of Michigan products for the Silent Auction and several MASTA members are attending. I will be encouraging those teachers to submit articles for the MASTA blog...AND...ALL of YOU are encouraged to send news about what's going on at home!</div><div><br></div><div>Finally, a word of CONGRATULATIONS to our recent award winners:</div><div> Gabe Villasurda - 2016 Lifetime Achievement</div><div> Wendy Azrak - 2016 Studio Teacher of the Year</div><div> Anthony Elliot - 2016 Teacher of the Year Finalist</div><div> Andrea Yun - 2016 Teacher of the Year Finalist</div><div><br></div><div>THANK YOU ALL for INSPIRING us!<br><br>Janis Shier Peterson, MASTA Pres. Elect<div>932 S. Lake St.</div><div>Marquette, MI 49855</div><div>906-250-4242</div></div> </div></body>
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