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Show Trade Tech Course Will Train Certified Prof. Secretaries There are secretaries and secretaries . . . and then there are Ceretified Professional Secretaries. Sec-retaries. At the present time there are only 30 Certfiied Professional Secretaries in Utah, according to Dr. Lucille Stoddard, chairman chair-man of the Business Department Depart-ment of Utah Technical College at Provo. But, Utah Tech hopes hop-es to correct the scarcity. It will teach this year in its Evening School, a Certified Professional Secretary program, pro-gram, Dr. Stoddard said, offering offer-ing a rare opportunity for attaining at-taining this highest of standards stand-ards in the secretarial field. Instructor will be Mrs. Max-ine Max-ine K. Christensen of Orem, herself a Certified Professional Secretary, who has taught at Utah Tech on a part-time basis for several years but this year will join the faculty full-time. Mrs. Christensen taught the Certified Professional Secretary Secre-tary course at BYU for four years. When she started the program there were only four in Utah qualified as CPS. There are now 30. The Evening School Program Pro-gram this year will offer students stu-dents a preparatory program that will prepare them to take the national Certified Professional Profes-sional Secretary examination. It's successful passage qualifies them as Certified Professional Secretaries, which, according to Dr. Stoddard, is the ultimate ultim-ate rating in general secretarial secretar-ial training. Generally speaking, said Mrs Christensen, the national CPS examination is based upon an analysis of secretarial work, with emphasis on judgment, understanding, and administrative administra-tive ability gained through education ed-ucation and work experience. The Utah Tech Evening School course will include preparation in the six specific fields dealt with in the national examination. examina-tion. These include: Environmental Environ-mental relationships in business, busi-ness, business and public policy, pol-icy, economics of management, financial analysis and the mathematics math-ematics of business, communications commun-ications and decision making, and office procedures. Mrs. Christensen will also teach a course in the Utah Tech Day School in qualifications for a legal secretary in a general strengthening of the Utah Tech secretarial training program this year. The CPS Preparation Course will be offered at UTC at Provo Pro-vo beginning Sept. 25 and running run-ning through April 30, 1974. An orientation meeting to acquaint interested secretaries with the CPS certification and to review the scope of the preparation course will be held at Utah Technical College Sept 18 at 7:30 in the faculty lounge. Registration Reg-istration for the course can be made at that meeting or at the beginning of the first class on Sept. 25. For further information contact con-tact the business department at the College. |