Steve Sanford - Dec 5, 2025 - Mexico City

Nueva Rosita - Steve Frazier Sanford
 

In my recent trip to Mexico City I met up with a man I had last seen in 1957 when both of us were 15. Because we did not communicate until we met (a brief WhatsApp before to arrange our meeting) it seemed like all those years (68) had not happened. Paradoxically we both felt that we had seen each other seconds before in 1957.

I believe that this century has a few advantages over the last one. One big one is to locate people (Google) and then to communicate with them (Messenger, WhatsApp).

In 1957 my mother was teaching high school (8^th grade, 7^th and 6^th) in a one room schoolhouse in Nueva Rosita, Coahuila in northern Mexico. She was teaching there because her students were the children of the engineers, etc, of American Smelting and Refining Company.

The 8^th grade class was made up by 6 boys. I was one of them and of course my mother was our teacher.

Steve Frazier- far right - 1957, Nueva Rosita, Coahuila. Mexico

A few weeks ago I looked for those 5 boys. I already knew that 4 of them were gone. Steve Frazier has a sister, Cornelia Muzquiz who lives in Eagle Pass. Texas. I connected with her through Messenger and she gave me the contacts for her brother who now used his mother’s maiden name of Sanford.

Alex on left, Steve on far right

We spent several hours in Mexico City using the word buddy lots. Steve talks perfect Spanish and his English is full-Texan.

Of the portrait that I took of him I can only say I lucked out.