Very hot beautiful bright day. The temperature 96 degrees. To country play [place?] to plant and hoe. Home 3:30 P.M. Took bath. Wagner home for 3 weeks. Joint meeting K.S.P. & Phi Beta Pi at 7:30. Fine time. To bed 11:30.
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Wagner is Charles Wagner, one of the friends who appears frequently in Stanford's diary. Charles W. Wagner was Stanford's age, and in 1920 he was working as a clerk at General Electric. He lived on Dakota Street, a street that no longer exists, but it intersected Clinton Street at a point where Hamilton Street crosses now. So if Hamilton is the former Dakota, then Charles Wagner lived about 3/4 of a mile from Stanford. Charles is home, says Stanford, but where he has been he doesn't say. It sounds as if he may have been going to college somewhere, but I haven't been able to discover if or where.
Charles died in 1977 in Schenectady where he'd apparently lived his whole life. In 1940 he was working as a firefighter for the City of Schenectady. He was married by that time to Sophia, and had a daughter. I wonder if he and Stanford kept in touch over the years?
I'm not sure what Phi Beta Pi is (and I can't find out, so far), but it has something to do with KSP, or so it sounds.
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