How to Join
Welcome to JAPOS! You may use this PDF membership application to join and begin receiving our quarterly news bulletin.
Dues for each calendar year beginning in January is $10 (ten USD) to receive both the PDF and a printed hard copy. You may elect to receive it in just one format, or both.
Upon completing your application choose one of these options to make a payment:
1.) Mail your check and the completed form to our Secretary-Treasurer, OR
2.) Email a scanned copy of the form to the Secretary-Treasurer and use this PayPal Donation link to make your payment.
The Secretary-Treasurer will assume from the amount submitted whether it is meant for dues (in increments of ten) or if it is an odd-number donation above normal dues. Email instructions as necessary to clarify.
History
Our By-Laws (see larger image) have not been changed since formation in 1974. That would take some discussion and a vote, which in a normal club would happen in a meeting. (We have never had a meeting.) If we want to make changes without meeting, we could do it via regular mail. That is how we have conducted elections of officers in the past and how we picked our favorite articles.
We offer a one-page, 512-word summary of our history in PDF document, created in 2024.
For a few years, Gustav Detjen Jr. produced first day covers for new author stamp issues, with this style of text cachet.
Source for Checklists
Are you looking for a checklist of your favorite author, journalist, or poet? While it's true that you can buy one from the American Topical Association if you are a member, it might be easier to use our own in-club service.
Marianne Gelbert can mail you a checklist on practically any writer you have in mind. Our president, Clete Delvaux, recently learned that Marianne's service costs have not changed. She still charges ten cents a printed page plus postage. Clete says his 5-page checklist on Luis Camoes, for example, cost him just 50 cents plus 66 cents postage. What a deal!
Contact Marianne for your checklist of any writer at majaelissa@gmail.com
Officers
JAPOS President
Clete Delvaux, 1660 Hoffman Rd., Apt. 110, Green Bay, WI 54311.
Email: cletus.delvaux@gmail.com
JAPOS Vice President
Mark Winnegrad, 1450 Parkchester Rd., Apt. 5A, Bronx, NY 10462
JAPOS Secretary-Treasurer
Cynthia Scott, 4505 Chapel Dr., Columbus, IN 47203
Email: study.japos@gmail.com
JAPOS Web Master
Cynthia Scott, 4505 Chapel Dr., Columbus, IN 47203.
Email: cynscott2011@gmail.com