April 22, 2009
For Immediate Release
International Association of Administrative Professionals
10502 NW Ambassador Drive
Kansas City, MO 64153
Contact: Emily Allen
(816) 891-6600 X 2239
eallen@iaap-hq.org

IAAP Announces Winners of Its Two APW Contests

Kansas City, Mo. To mark Administrative Professionals Week/Day, the International Association of Administrative Professional hosted two contests, Office Without Admins and Nine To Five.

Office Without Admins
Workplaces around the world need admins. Their hard work and dedication keep offices functioning smoothly and efficiently. We asked people to produce a video showing us what happens to the office when the admin or admin staff is gone. We had ten entries in our first every video contest. Suzanne Bracken CAP produced our winning entry. Her video and the others can be viewed at http://www.administrativeprofessionalsweek.org/
Bracken wins a weekend at The Woodlands Resort and Conference Center in Houston and airfare. Look on the IAAP Web site next year for our 2010 video contest.

Nine To Five
Back in 1980 in the movie Nine to Five Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda captured their boss and kept him trapped in his own house while they ran the department. Productivity went through the roof when the admins were in charge. That movie has been turned into a Broadway show, starring Dolly Parton. It opens on April 29 in New York City.  

While IAAP doesn’t condone kidnapping the boss, we wanted to have a bit of fun with Administrative Professionals Day this year. IAAP partnered with the musical Nine to Five to give away a prize package to the IAAP member who could, in one sentence, show how admins have changed from 1980 to today. April Hill CPS is the winner of the weekend vacation package including airfare (up to $600) hotel for one night, dinner, a Bliss spa package and tickets to the show with a backstage pass for the winner and a companion. Hill’s winning sentence is: “We are seen; we are valued; we are leaders.”

Both contests had excellent submissions. All our judges had a difficult time choosing the winners. IAAP would like to thank our sponsors, The Woodlands Resort and Conference Center and the Broadway musical Nine to Five.

About IAAP
IAAP is the world’s leading association for administrative professionals, with 600 chapters and more than 40,000 members and affiliates worldwide. IAAP is the sole sponsor of Administrative Professionals Week® April 19-25, 2009 and Administrative Professionals Day® on Wednesday, April 22 (formerly called Professional Secretaries Week® and Professional Secretaries Day®). Further information, including history and a facts sheet on APW, is available from the IAAP Web site at:  www.iaap-hq.org/newsroom/apw