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Tagbilaran beauties in retrospect
« on: May 02, 2007, 04:23:08 PM »
Tagbilaran beauties in retrospect
By Jefilo Rewinantclacoe


There may have been beauty tilts earlier that were not properly documented, so the personalities may have slipped from our memory …

Over the years, it may have been known by different titles such as Miss Tagbilaran, Tagbilaran’s Five Prettiest, Miss Teen Tagbilaran, Mutya sa Tagbilaran or Miss Young Tagbilaran, even spanning the terms of former City Mayors Venancio Pahang Inting, Rolando Gatal Butalid, Jose Ma. Fama Rocha, Jose Valles Torralba and now Mayor Dan Neri Lim and handled by the City Government of Tagbilaran, Leo Club of Tagbilaran, Chocolate Hills Lady Jaycees or Pastillas Jaycees, but just the same, these beauty pageants never fail to catch the fancy of the people who have an eye for pulchritude.

Through the years, as Tagbilaran has metamorphosed into a city with big dreams, we also recall the ladies who were privileged to be its ambassadors of goodwill, who have successfully represented Tagbilaran in higher levels of competitions, or have helped in promoting the best assets of the City by serving as role models of the youth.

After more than four (4) fruitful decades, the City has grown by leaps and bounds, so has beauty pageants. It’s not just about the face and figure, poise and bearing, talent and intelligence or that “thing’ they call x-factor. Beauty pageants have evolved, have gone beyond simply looking at the physical attributes of each candidate, but most importantly, it has given the definition of “beauty with a purpose.” So, what has become of our former titleholders?

In April 1986, Zosita Caliao Clarin (married to Godofredo Manigque; as a mother, Suzette has raised four lovely children, the eldest “Margo,” destined to become Miss Tagbilaran exactly 20 years after her own victory) was crowned Miss Tagbilaran in the pageant sponsored by the Leo Club of Tagbilaran. Three months after that, the City Government of Tagbilaran organized the 1986 Tagbilaran’s Five Prettiest and proclaimed Elisa Pusta Laway (now with the audit division of the Holy Name University Finance Office), Gemma Marina Reyes Manding (a Philippine Airlines flight attendant for almost two decades), Ma. Josefina Mabilog Manigque (a businesswoman in Bacolod), Helena Monton (a nurse in London) and Leah Vita Castaño. In the year that followed, Cogon’s Fiel Angeli Espejo Araoarao, 17 at that time (now wife of Jerome John J. Gabin from Siquijor and mother of Cielo, Tagbilaran City Information Officer who served as president of the development information officers in Bohol and Central Visayas), reigned as Miss Tagbilaran 1987. The blend of American and Spanish features in Geraldee Vallejo Campbell (now Mrs. Balbona, has traveled far and wide as a Cathay Pacific flight attendant based in Hongkong) was evident when she was crowned Miss Teen Tagbilaran in 1988.
         
Figuring in Bohol’s beauty pageant history as the first Miss Bohol Sandugo titleholder is Mutya sa Tagbilaran 1989 Winnie Moreno Lim (married for 13 years to Vicente Ventulan), now director of the rehabilitative services of the Life Care Center in Port Saint Lucie, Florida, USA. In 1990, a Penshoppe model, Ma. Victoria Gaviola Labado, became Mutya sa Tagbilaran and is now a fulfilled obstetrician-gynecologist, wife of Dr. Philip S. Larrazabal, head of the radiology and cancer treatment of Cebu Doctors Hospital and heads the Center for Women of the same institution. One of the pretty and smart ladies of the Matuod Clan from Manga, Mutya 1991 Joanna Cheryl Matuod Evardone (a cardiac intensive care unit nurse at Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut, USA and recipient of the Star Award for Nurses for being one of the Most Outstanding Members of the Nursing Staff), succeeded Labado.  Still a student of Divine Word College when she won the crown (now a bank teller), Suzy Agoncillo Tabuno was Mutya sa Tagbilaran 1992 and was the city’s official representative to the Miss Bohol Sandugo ’92.

Adjudged Mutya 1993 was a no-nonsense lady, Sophia Lorraine Maniwang Alvarez, now Mrs. Gentallan, lives in Milford, Connecticut with husband Joel (from Antequera) and 10-month-old son Justin Christian and works as registered nurse in the intensive care unit and coronary care unit of Norwalk Hospital for a little over 5 years already. In 1994, Vanessa Joyce Matuod Evardone (Astillero), earned the second Mutya title for the Evardone Family after older sister Chewee (Joanna Cheryl), continued to triumph as Miss Bohol Sandugo 1994 pageant, and is now having her residency training in internal medicine at the Caritas Carney Hospital-Tafts University in Boston, Massachusetts. For some reasons, no pageant was held in 1995. The charming Mary Fragelle Felisilda Tejano (a BA in Mass Communications graduate of the University of the Philippines – Cebu, she had a stint as administrative officer of Guardo Realty Development Ventures until she left the company in March 2006 and recently migrated to Brampton, Ontario, Canada) from Lindaville Subdivision held the crown in 1996. The articulate Socorro D’ Marie Tallo Inting, Mutya sa Tagbilaran 1997 and Miss Bohol Sandugo 1997, is now a lawyer, a partner in the Mijares and Partners Law Office in Cebu who enjoys handling civil cases more than criminal cases and likes the challenge of trying to win a losing case and dealing with the loss of a winnable case.

An incoming fourth year high school student of Holy Spirit School in 1998, the glamorous Jesyl Bongosia del Rosario, Mutya sa Tagbilaran 1998, finished BS Commerce at the Holy Name University used to be a front office staff of Plantation Bay Resort and is now a bank employee of Metrobank in Cebu. Mutya 1999 Marimi Caballo Marapao, the unassuming lass from Lindaville, crossed boundaries she has never been before (Asia, Europe, North and South America) as an Asiana Airline flight attendant. Taloto’s Mutya Amor Telmo Zamora, Mutya 2000, was with the Cebu office of Gulf Airlines, an international airline flying Middle East and Europe but is now an accountant in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Succeeding Zamora in 2001 was Bool’s bet Jacklyn Joy Pilayre Yam, a BSC-Management Accounting graduate of HNU, best remembered for the “fall” which caused her a few stitches on the face before the pageant and coronation night. 
   
A multi-faceted lady, Mutya 2002 Costie Jephilin Bojo Besas passed the nurses’ board examination given in June 2005 and the International English Language Testing System exam (November 2005), as well as the grueling N-CLEX in Hongkong administered on August 19, her 22nd birthday. She is waiting for her visa screen certificate for the United States. Rhoda Lee Logroño Ligan, Mutya 2003, was one of the successful examinees of the much-talked about licensure exam for nurses last June 11 and 12,2006 and now working on her application in a call center and forwarding company. Mutya 2004 Lorraine Marie Mapute Evasco, left for New York on August 3, 2006 to join her Math teacher-mother Alma Reyfil (she intends to pursue her college after savoring her days at Silliman University as a consistent BA MassCom honor student of their department). In 2005, a group of five lasses composed of Bool’s Richell “Rich Asuncion” Pacaldo Angalot (who is now having her share of stardom after becoming a GMA-7 Starstruck finalist), Poblacion 1’s Anna Karenina Fuentes Cimagala (another believer in the principles of Florence Nightingale, a third year nursing student at HNU), Mansasa’s April Lynn C. Recio (a second year BSN student of HNU), Katherine Margaret M. Tejano (recently migrated to Long Beach, California, USA), and Barbie Ann B. Vanta (was contemplating to enroll in a caregiving course, but went to Davao) were hailed as Miss Young Tagbilaran 2005 beauties. In 2006, the statuesque Margo Adelaiz Clarin Manigque (daughter of Miss Tagbilaran 1986 Suzette Clarin), one of the freshest faces on the catwalk as a promising fashion model and bronze medallist of the Manila Youth Games 2005, a nursing student of the University of Bohol, epitomizes the traits befitting of a Miss Tagbilaran 2006 titleholder. On April 28, 2007, Mary Lovely Ligones of Barangay Bool was crowned Miss Tagbilaran 2007 succeeding Margo Manigque.

Wherever the other beauties may have been, they have certainly left their marks in local beauty pageant history as women who exuded charm and grace and in later years have exhibited strength of character and shown compassion to the people whose lives they have touched. More significantly, the common denominator of these ladies is that they have triumphed over life’s challenges.

(The writer wishes to express gratitude to the parents, siblings and relatives of the candidates, Lawrence Medilo, Raymund Buslon, Joel Padolin and Chrysilli Mitzi Ibaya of Bohol Magazine for willingly sharing their photo collections… )










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Re: Tagbilaran beauties in retrospect
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2007, 04:37:45 PM »
Thank you, Fiel, for this article! Hope to see you here everyday! All for the love of Bohol!

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Re: Tagbilaran beauties in retrospect
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2008, 09:34:24 AM »
Asa na kaha ang mga beauties karon?

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Re: Tagbilaran beauties in retrospect
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2008, 12:42:12 AM »

Fiel, that's great effort...and to the beauties : may the "x-factor" transcends boundaries... for a purpose (role models worthy of replication)...

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