Raymond Roberts papers, 1944-1997

This collection includes a photograph and a book, Survivors of the Leopoldville Disaster. The photograph, dated approximately 1944, depicts John C. DeKlyen and two other Illinois Institute of Technology students, Marty Black and Bob Natkin. Survivors of the Leopoldville Disaster (148 pp) by Raymond R. Roberts (Three Oaks Michigan: Bear Press Printing; 1997) consists of stories about the disaster told by survivors to the author 45 years after the events. The author dedicated the book to two of his friends who died in the shipwreck, John C. DeKlyen and Lewis A. Smith, who were students at IIT before going on active duty. See dedication page ii and page 142 with author's handwritten note and signature.