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ROSALINDA C. LIM, Miss Luzon, 1932 Manila Carnival
Rosalina Lim placed
2nd to Emma
Zamora in
the 1932 edition of the search for Carnival Queen. Her father
was Ramon
Arandia Lim, a Spanish-Chinese mestizo who
was connected with San
Miguel Brewery as
a comptroller, until he fell ill. Her mother was Justa
Cispon, of
Portuguese-Pangasinense extract. Her photographs show a
delicate, contemplative kind of beauty, her Eurasian heritage
evident in her height and Oriental eyes. At the coronation of
the 1932 court, Rosalina was escorted by Geronimo
Santiago Jr.
Further enriching her multi-cultural background, she married Claude
Devlin Martinez, a
British-Filipino. Claude's father, from Balayan, Batangas, was
studying shipbuilding in Scotland when he met and married an
Englishwoman from London. The couple lived in London for some 15
years before returning to the Philippines. Rosalina and Claude
had an only daughter, Tita
Martinez Sicat, a Ph.D. holder and a U.P. professor.
(text by Alex R. Castro of Manila Carnivals 1908-1939) All Rights Reserved |