 The club slogan was "A quitter never wins and a winner never quits".Except for "Seckatary Hawkins in Cuba" and "The Ghost of Lake Tapaho", the setting was a river bank that was a composite based on Schulker's familiarity with segments of the Ohio River, the Licking River, and the Kentucky River.Seckatary Hawkins, a fat boy with a cowlick hairdo, records daily minutes of the adventures of a remarkably organized group of boys.