A member of the Procrastinators Club was once expelled for getting his Christmas cards out on time. He was reinstated later, when he explained that they were the pervious year's cards. An editorial in the Cleveland Plain Dealer reprimanded the club for acting so swiftly.
F. Richie Gibbons, an attorney in Edwardsville, Ohio, wrote to the club asking what the first step would be in forming a chapter. He was sent the information. Five years later, he sent another letter asking, "What's the second step?"
The winner of a club contest for the best essay on "How Procrastination has Helped Me," was Mrs. Walter Treftz, a housewife whose entry said: "I'll write tomorrow."
The club had an outing at Atlantic City Race Track, and, in full dress, presented an award to the last horse in the specially named Procrastinators Race, on a very rainy day. The P.A. system blared out, "We direct your attention to the loser's circle--", and what the spectators saw was a totally mud-covered bewildered jockey who had no idea of what was going on.
One month after members returned from their trip to Italy, Tom Garlin, the club's travel agent, sent a detailed proposal for the trip, and requested a reply "at your latest convenience."
The Procrastinators Club of America has members throughout the world, including every country in Europe, the Near East, Far East, Middle East, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. In the United States alone, it has more than a half million members who haven't joined yet.
Procrastinators had everything they could want for their first annual summer ski party at Spring Mountain, PA: skis, instructors, lifts, casts, bandages etc. The only thing missing, unfortunetly, was snow. However some members brought snow that they'd saved in freezers, and some attatched wheels to their skis.
Cartoon character Ziggy is an official member of the Procrastinators Club of America.
Thanks to Congressman Bertram L. Podell of New York, National Procrastination Week was cited in The Congressional Record, when he marked the event by saying, "I will put off my remarks on the subject until a later time."
The Procrastinators Club of America will be holding their annual Christmas Shopping Seminar on December 26.