Tuesday, May 6, 1919

Mild. Bright.  To College 8:30 to 2:30.  Played tennis with H. H. [his brother, Hanford Hillman], Leslie Jones, and Stanley Joseph.  To College to Baseball game.  Score: Union 0 - Colgate 5.  Home.  Sorted eggs.  Studied.  To bed 10 P.M.  Thankful.

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Leslie Jones and Stanley Joseph were from what I could determine, classmates of Stanford.  Leslie was probably Leslie Webber Jones, born March 4, 1900 in Schenectady.  He lived at 109 Front Street in 1919, which was close to the river in a house that is apparently still standing.  In the 1920 census he is listed as a student at Union College.  Leslie went on to become an academic in later life, teaching Classics at City College of New York in the 30s.  He was still teaching in New York in 1940.  He ended up in Berkeley, California, where he died in 1981.  I was unable to determine if he taught at UC there.  He is buried in Meriden, Connecticut with his wife, Rachel.

I think Leslie's Rachel is probably Rachel Foster Rand, who was an artist and had her own studio. She was from Connecticut and had gone to Yale, studying Art.  In 1925 she won a prize for First Year Painting.

In 1920 there is a Rachel Rand living in New Haven with her family.  Her father is a physician and they live at 246 Church Street, which was probably a very nice neighborhood in 1920.  Her mother is shown as being born in Louisiana, and since that is where in 1930 Mrs. Rachel Jones says her mother was born, we can assume she is the same Rachel. She died in California in 1993.

Stanley Joseph is probably the young man who lived in Schenectady at 133 Park Avenue with his parents and older sister Edith, according to the 1920 census.  Born in 1901, Stanley would have been 18 in 1919.  His father was a clothing merchant.  In the census, he is listed as being a student, and since he's of college age, one can assume he's a college student, probably at Union College.  By 1930, he's still living with his parents, but by then he is a furniture merchant, having followed his father into the merchant trade.

It should be noted that Stanford, in addition to being a full time college student with an active social life, is also helping his father with his butter and egg business whenever possible.  In the journals, he frequently mentions doing chores associated with that business (such as sorting eggs) at night and on weekends.  He was a good son.