Raymond J. Ackerman Papers, 1938-2015

Description: The papers of Raymond J. Ackerman (1918-)(BS, Civil Engineering, 1943), including personal sports reports related to Fighting Illini Men's Baseball, Basketball, Football and other sports, sports reports related to the Chicago Cubs. These sports reports contain Ray Ackerman's personal thoughts on the sports teams as well as newspaper clippings. The collection also includes a self-published two-part autobiography, information relating to the Civil Engineering Class of 1943 Class Letters, the Seventy-Second Annual Commencement program (1943), and the Sixteenth Annual Honors Day program (1940) as well as the publications Elementary Surveying, by William Horace Raymen (1938), Handbook of Mathematical Tables and Formulas by Richard Stevens Burington (1940, Route Surveying by George Wellington Pickels (1945), A History of Concrete Canoe Racing At the University of Illinois (1981).