Notes for Robert Franc "Seck" Schulkers: . Extensive SCHULKERS genealogy can be found at our alternate sites: http://www.uftree/UFT/WebPages/Schulkers/SCHULK/index.htm. And a biography is available on the Seckatary Hawkins Club webpage at www.seckatary.com
Robert wrote the famous 1920's boys stories: [BO:The Adventures of Seckatary Hawkins:BO] - The "Fair and Square" Club. Good clean reading fun you can't put down about a Kentucky River boys club and their many exciting adventures. 1.[UL: Stoner's Boy:UL] -"The Mystery of the Gray Ghost. . 2. [UL:Mystery of the Cazanova Treasure:UL] - Seckatary Hawkins in Cuba. 3. [UL:The Red Runners:UL] -"The Mystery of the Hypnotizing Eyes" . 4. [UL:The Gray Ghost:UL] - "The Return of Stoner's Boy" . 5. [UL: Stormie the Dog Stealer:UL]- "The Mystery of the Baying Hounds. 6. [UL:Knights of the Square Table:UL]- "The Mystery of the Lonely House". 7. [UL:Ching Toy:UL]- "The Mystery of the Magic Triangle". 8. [UL:The Chinese Coin:UL] - "The Mystery of the Cave of Wonders"- 9. [UL:The Yellow Y:UL] - "The Mystery of the Boy With the Longbow" . 10. [UL:Herman the Fiddler:UL] - "The Mystery of the Three-eyed Ape" . 11. T[UL:he Ghost of Lake Tapaho:UL]- "The Mystery of the Lake". What the heck is a Seckatary? - His early job as secretary at the Cincinnati Enquirer may have had some spark of origin. The "Seckatary" mis-spelling was said to have come about when the club was formed and the boys were about 9 years old. They couldn't spell too well, and so the name stuck. It was meant to reflect a youngsters, phonetic mis-spelling of "secretary", of course. This offered an ease of real-life identifying characteristics to the stories through a common phonetic mis-spelling of words - a tendency that the majority of average young target readers were determined to have had. He first wrote a Christmas story for the Enquirers children's page, then contributed about every fortnight: a series with animal characters( Animal-land Tales), stories of children of Biblical times, several on four boys that foreshadowed the Seckatary series. "The Snow Fort" was the first Seck Hawkins story published in Volume I, number 1 of the 1922 bi-weekly Seckatary Hawkins magazine serials published by H & S Pogue's department stores. It was not titled The Snow Fort, simply "The First Hawkins Story", but it came to be known as "The Snow Fort". RFS used the mis-spelled name "Rejiment" for the clubhouse name to illustrate the young age of the boys. Editions of his "Boat House Boys", "Mile-a-minute-Milo" and other short series added fuel to the fire. A national boy's and girl's club, local radio program, and newspaper comic strip ran during the mid 1920's. A national radio show was broadcast from the Chicago Merchandise Mart in 1929-30. There is citation of the Seckatary Hawkins stories, Gray Ghost book, and quoted reference in the closing moral lesson in the novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird" written and published in 1960 by club member Harper Lee. The club was dedicated to good clean fun and the Club motto was: "A quitter never wins and a winner never quits" RFS always insisted on high moral standards from the club members, stressing "Fair and Square" as the way we should all live our lives. [BO:"Which we did":BO].
More About Robert Franc "Seck" Schulkers and Julia Buckley "Julia B" Darnell: Marriage: February 10, 1915, Augusta, Ky - Eloped.
Children of Robert Franc "Seck" Schulkers and Julia Buckley "Julia B" Darnell are:
Robert Franc "Seck" Schulkers (b. July 21, 1890, d. April 06, 1972)
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