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Northwest Division. The Northwest Division state presidents met during the MTNA MTNA Music Teachers National AssociationMTNA Middle Tennessee Nursery Association (McMinnville, Tennessee)Division Competitions January 14-16, 2005. Each president shared ideas from his or her state about membership, future and current projects, fundraising, conferences and leadership training. Alaska MTA has begun preparing for its 2005 state conference, which will be held in Anchorage the last week of August. Nelita True, NCTM NCTM National Council of Teachers of MathematicsNCTM Nationally Certified Teacher of MusicNCTM North Carolina Transportation MuseumNCTM National Capital Trolley MuseumNCTM Nationally Certified in Therapeutic Massage , from the Eastman School of Music Eastman School of Music:see Rochester, Univ. of. , will be the featured guest clinician. Also, Washington MTA will share the talents of True when she attends the 2005 state conference June 27-July 1 at Gonzaga University. Oregon MTA will present its 2005 state conference June 24-26, in the La Sells Stewart Center Facility in Corvallis. Antonio Pompa-Baldi will be the featured guest artist, and Scott McBride Smith, NCTM, will be the featured pedagogy clinician. In addition, there will be workshops on collaborative music for one piano, four hands and duo piano. The OMTA OMTA Ontario Massage Therapist Association (Canada)OMTA Ohio Music Teachers AssociationOMTA Old Mobeetie Texas AssociationOMTA Oregon Music Teachers Association, Inc. state conference also will be held in conjunction with the Oregon Bach Festival The Oregon Bach Festival is an annual celebration of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, held in Eugene, Oregon in late June and early July. It was co-founded by German conductor Helmuth Rilling and the former president of the American Choral Directors Association, Royce Saltzman, in Eugene. Smith will be a guest for the Wyoming MTA conference, June 16-18, 2005, in Cheyenne. Doug Humpherys, from the Eastman School of Music, will be the guest recitalist and presenter of workshops and master classes. --Kenneth Christensen Bozeman, Montana