RACHEL FLORENDO-Bb. PILIPINAS WORLD 1997

RACHEL FLORENDO-Bb. PILIPINAS WORLD 1997

RACHEL SORIANO-Bb. PILIPINAS-WORLD 1998

RACHEL SORIANO-Bb. PILIPINAS-WORLD 1998

ISABEL RODRIGUEZ-MISS PHILIPPINES-UNIVERSE 1956

ISABEL RODRIGUEZ-MISS PHILIPPINES-UNIVERSE 1956

• 1956 — Miss Philippines Isabel Escobar Rodriguez paid a courtesy call to President Ramon Magsaysay in Malacañang Palace before she left for L.A. via Honolulu on July 10, 1956 at 11 p.m. by Pan American Airways.

1956- Miss Philippines Edith Noble Nakpil, daughter of Anita Noble, opted not to represent the country in the Miss Universe pageant. Isabel Rodriguez, Miss Benevolence in a red Cross tilt, was chosen to replace her.

PEACHY SACASAS-BB. PIIPINAS-INERNATIONAL 1981

PEACHY SACASAS-BB. PIIPINAS-INERNATIONAL 1981

MS. INTERNATIONAL 1981 SEMI-FINALIST

MARY ANN CORRALES-MISS PHILIPPINES-UNIVERSE 1957

MARY ANN CORRALES-MISS PHILIPPINES-UNIVERSE 1957

• 1957 — Miss Philippines Mary Ann Carmen Philips Corrales left Manila for L.A. via Honolulu on July 6, 1957 shortly before midnight by Pan American Airways. She’s the only Philippine delegate in memory to bring along a personal beautician.

source: 
by Ricardo F. Lo
The Philippine Star
June 2006

ANTHEA ROBLES-Bb. PILIPINAS-INTERNATIONAL-1988

ANTHEA ROBLES-Bb. PILIPINAS-INTERNATIONAL-1988

Rosa Rosal- The Movie Villainess who is really an angel in real life

She is the Famas Best Actress in 1955.

Rosa Rosal




Excerpt from Inquirer.

It took a sick boy to lead movie icon Rosa Rosal to a life of unconditional volunteer service.

Rosal can no longer remember the boy’s name, who was in a coma when the budding actress first saw him in the emergency ward of the Philippine General Hospital one day in 1948.

“He was comatose for three days. I kept on coming back. I did not know what a coma was. I had no idea what caused it. I found out that he fell from a five-story building and he was bleeding inside. He was hemorrhaging,” Rosal said in Filipino.

When the actress, then only 17, learned that the boy needed a neurologist, she called up a friend, Dr. Victor Reyes, a neurosurgeon, who readily obliged and examined the boy. Reyes said the boy needed a blood transfusion.

They got the blood and an operation was performed immediately. The boy was saved.

That incident changed Rosal’s life. “It was that boy that started it. It was then that I saw how blood, no matter how small a drop, can give life.”



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TERESITA SANCHEZ-MISS PHILIPPINES-UNIVERSE 1952

TERESITA TORRALBA SANCHEZ-MISS PHILIPPINES-UNIVERSE 1952

1952 — Miss Philippines Teresita Torralba Sanchez left Manila for L.A. via Honolulu on June 19, 1952 at 7:45 p.m. by Pan American Airways Strato Clipper. She was joined by Miss Hong Kong Judy Dan who arrived earlier in the afternoon from Hong Kong. Teresita was immediately rated as a dark horse; she fainted during the finals but recovered before the announcement of winners. Ramon Valera and Mademoiselle designed her wardrobe. Judy was third runner-up to 1952 Miss Universe Armi Helena Kuusela of Finland, the first title-holder.

source: Ricardo F. Lo
The Philippine Star
June 2006