Administrative Professionals Week April 19th - 25th

Administrative Professionals Day formerly known as Secretary's Day is an unofficial secular not official vacation observed Wednesday of the full week spent of April (that is to say. On April 25, 2007; on April 23, 2008; on April 22, 2009; on April 21, 2010), to recognize the work of secretaries, administrative assistants, receptionists, and other administrative professionals of support.

This annual event was originally organized in 1952 as "National Secretaries Week" by the National Secretaries Association (now known as the International Association of Administrative Professionals) in conjunction with public relations executive Harry Klemfuss and a consortium of office product manufacturers. It was established as an effort to recognize secretaries for their contributions in the workplace, and to attract people to secretarial/administrative careers.

The idea began with Mary Barrett, president of the National Secretaries Association, now called IAAP, and C. King Woodbridge, president of Dictaphone Corporation. They served on a council addressing a national shortage of skilled office workers. Together with Harry Klemfuss, public relations account executive at Young & Rubicam, they originated the idea for a National Secretaries Week.

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