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Congratulations to the following MTA members, the winners of our Winter giveaway. Each member received a $100 Brooks Brothers gift card.

Karen Beati, Greater Lowell Regional Teachers Organization
Laura Hauck, Milton Educators Association
Joan Lee, Retired

Congratulations to Charli Mancini, Sudbury-Lincoln Reg. Teachers, the winner of our Quick Quote Giveaway, who won a $400^® Apple Gift Card.

"This was a very pleasant surprise! Thank you very much MTA Benefits." - Charli Mancini

Congratulations to the following MTA members who are the lucky winners of our fall Giveaway!

Kimberly Possee - Truro Education Association

"This is wonderful - it's so exciting to be a winner! The gift card will really come in handy at this time of year! Thanks."

“Thank you for making my day! It was a nice surprise before the holiday madness begins!”

Charlene O'Neill - Somerville Teachers Association

"Wow. This is only the second thing I have ever won in my life."

William Perry - Wachusett Regional Education Association

Each winner received a $100 Target gift card. Make sure to register here to receive advance notification of upcoming MTAB giveaways! Congratulations to our lucky winners!

The Comfort Inn brand® was nominated as a finalist in the 2007 Travel Weekly Reader’s Choice Awards. Comfort Inn is the largest of Choice Hotel® brands with almost 2,000 hotels Worldwide. Click here to learn more about this and other hotels participating in MTAB’s Hotel Discount program.

Concerned about the turbulent mortgage market? Read this important update.

The discoveries of a supreme bargain hunter. Known to friends for her shrewd bargain-hunting skills, MTA Retired member Sheryl LeClair scrutinizes the MTA Benefits & Discount Directory when she first receives it to find out which programs and places offer the biggest savings. Read more.

An MTA member since 1974, Susan Karb is in the member spotlight of the Fall 07 MTA Advantage. Learn why she likes her job – and MTA Benefits. Learn more.

Passionate about energy conservation, MTA Retired member Bill Tobin has become involved with a company that produces a hybrid heating system. Discover how he’s making a difference.

Volunteering makes her a better teacher, says MTA member Robin Steele, who spends time as a volunteer at the Mineralogical and Geological Gallery at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (listed in the MTA Benefits & Discount Directory). Discover how students benefit from her experiences.

"My wife and I are so excited and happy to be the winners of the Spring Giveaway," said MTA Retired Member Charles Tate, who received a two-night package for two at the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center, in Northampton, Mass.

Previous giveaway winners include Jane Doherty, Association of Prof. Administrators; Karen Larkin, Northampton Teachers Association, and Paula Remick, Norton Teachers Association who each received a $100 Best Buy gift certificate during our Winter Giveaway held in February.

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Three summer giveaway winners each won a $100 gift card to DSW Shoe. Congratulations to Kate Lawrence, Waltham Educators Association; Pola Andrews, Saugus Educational Paras. Association, and Beth Danforth, Springfield Education Association. "I was thrilled to hear that I had won the DSW gift certificate. New school shoes is the first thought that came to mind", said Andrews.

Stephanie Iacadoro, Education Association of Plymouth and Carver, won the Summer Quick Quote Giveaway – a $400 gift card to the Apple® Store.

The Spring Quick Quote Giveaway winner was Lisa Reed, Springfield Teachers Association, who received a $500 gift certificate to the Cranwell Resort, Spa and Golf Club. Past winners of Quick Quote Giveaways are Stephanie Toolin, Pembroke Teachers Association, who also received a $500 gift certificate to the Cranwell, and Caroline Singler, who was the recipient of a two-night stay at the Ocean Edge Resort & Golf Club.

They’re prize winners at the 2007 ESP Conference held at the Radisson Plymouth Harbor on the weekend of May 18. Gifts were from MTA Benefits. Education Support Professionals are one of the fastest-growing groups in MTA.

Palm trees, surf boards, Beach Boys music and tacky Hawaiian shirts created a tropical oasis for the MTAB booth at the Annual Meeting. Hundreds of delegates stopped by and received a neon orange surf-style calculator and other giveaways. Catherine Davis, New Bedford Educators Association, won a $400 Apple® Store gift card. Click here for more images.

At the Annual Meeting Bose presented two MTA members with high-quality Bose® headphones, (valued at $99), the only in-ear headphones with the rich audio and comfortable fit not available from conventional designs. Elizabeth Angell, Quincy Educators Association, and Jackie Lawrence, Somerville Teachers Association, were the lucky recipients.

NEW MTA Vacations features dozens of exotic destinations in the Caribbean, Mexico and Bermuda. As an MTA member, you receive 5% off already reduced prices. Monthly specials and late-breaking deals give you up to 50% off brochure prices. Click here.

NEW ways to save include big discounts on your car insurance. Click here and get a fast auto insurance quote from MTAB. You also receive a $5 BORDERS® gift card (get them while they last) just for using the online QuickQuote.

NEW chances to win are yours in the exclusive member online giveaways. See what the new prizes are. You could be a winner!

Life insurance for just $4 a month. Members who joined MTA on or after August 1, 2007, are eligible to enroll in a new Group Voluntary Life Insurance Program. For a person under 35 years of age, the policy costs just $4 a month for $50,000 in term life insurance or $8 for $100,000 of coverage. Find out more.

NEW Climate Energy Program is a home heating system that also creates energy. Get a $500 rebate if you buy before December 31. Click here.

Other programs and discounts highly attractive to new members include the Hotel Discount Directory through which members can save from 5% to 25% on hundreds of places to stay, and the MTAB Benefits and Discount Directory that offers more than 1,000 places to save on products, sites and services.

Want to know more about MTAB programs? Ask one of our representatives to speak at one of your local association meetings. Topics include; long-term care, disability income, planning for your retirement, first-time home buying, refinancing made simple, tax-sheltered accounts, how much life insurance you really need and how to save the equivalent of your dues and more through MTA's group auto and homeowners insurance programs. Contact Bob Wills at rwills@mtabenefits.com, or Connie Dery at cdery@mtabenefits.com to schedule a visit; or call MTAB at 800.336.0990.

You can share the benefits of MTA membership with your family members. They're eligible for most MTA programs including mortgages, credit cards, automobile, home and renters insurance, long-term care and more. Call 800.336.0990, ext. 5226 for any program materials.

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• Annual Meeting 2007, Boston
• Annual Meeting 2006, Boston
• Annual Meeting 2004, Boston
• Annual Meeting 2003, Boston
• Annual Meeting 2002, Boston

MTAB Board of Directors. (Left to right) Anne Wass, Paul Toner, Connie Dery, Gerry Ruane, Sylvia Snape, Steve Gorrie, Kimberly Auger, Timothy Sheehan, Sheila Hanley, Ed Sullivan.