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with RFS III

Robert Franc "Seck" Schulkers (son of Henry Herman Schulkers and Maria Elisabeth Wueller) was born July 21, 1890 in 120 East 13th St., Covington, Ky, and died April 06, 1972 in 2560 Erie Ave, Cincinnati, Ohio. He married Julia Buckley "Julia B" Darnell on February 10, 1915 in Augusta, Ky - Eloped, daughter of Charles Francis "Charlie" Darnell and Florence Buckley.

 Includes NotesNotes for Robert Franc "Seck" Schulkers:
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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"
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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:
  1. +Robert Franc "Bob", Jr. Schulkers, b. November 19, 1917, Latonia, Ky, d. May 15, 1976, Cincinnati, Ohio.
  2. +Ruth Darnell Schulkers, b. May 15, 1920, 3029 Harvey Ave, Cincinnati, OH, d. July 12, 1996, Floyds Knobs, IN.
  3. +Julia Beatrice "Judy" Schulkers, b. January 11, 1922, 3546 Herschel View, Cincinnati, Ohio.
  4. +John Randolph Schulkers, b. April 06, 1926, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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