Irma Nydia Vázquez Explained

Irma Nydia Vázquez (June 8, 1929 – May 2, 2019) was Puerto Rico's representative (as Miss Puerto Rico) to the 1948 Miss America pageant. Although Malen Pietrantoni[1] started Puerto Rico's annual participation in the event in 1937[2] [3] as Miss Puerto Rico,[4] [5] and Zulma Caballero Lopez participated in 1938,[6] Vázquez is nonetheless generally credited with being the first Puerto Rican contestant in the event,[7] [8] which required all contestants[9] to sign a contract, which then required that "contestant must be in good health and of the white race."[10]

Life

The daughter of an industrialist and sister of a future Puerto Rico secretary of state, Pedro Vázquez. She began her school studies at the Colegio Puertorriqueño de Niñas in San Juan; he continued in the Labra and Central High School of Santurce. She was the second wife of Puerto Rican singer and composer Bobby Capó,[11] a marriage initially opposed by her family but which lasted 25 years, during which they had 5 children.[12] She was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico,[13] to Pedro Vázquez, the founder of professional baseball in Puerto Rico, and Genoveva Vázquez, a seamstress who designed former First Lady Ines Maria Mendoza's dress during the White House gala hosted by President John F. Kennedy at which cellist Pablo Casals performed.

Vázquez died on May 2, 2019, in Hackettstown, New Jersey, under the care of her daughters and granddaughters. She was 89.[14] Vázquez was buried at the Coamo Municipal Cemetery in Coamo, Puerto Rico, next to Capó's grave.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: page_54 . live . https://archive.today/20230228223813/https://image.isu.pub/160524210144-e6779f2af4c7884f06f9695d67cf99e4/jpg/page_54.jpg . 28 Feb 2023.
  2. Web site: 2018-07-05 . Miss America 1937 Candidates . 2020-04-29 . Miss America . en-US.
  3. Web site: 2015 . Destiny Vélez is Miss Puerto Rico 2015 . usurped . https://web.archive.org/web/20200919123857/https://pageantsnews.com/en/news/north-america/62-miss-america/3563-destiny-velez-is-miss-puerto-rico-2015 . September 19, 2020 . 2020-04-29 . Pageants News . en-gb.
  4. Web site: Memoria Viva: La búsqueda incansable de la belleza puertorriqueña. Montcourt. Nahira. 2019-12-08. Noticel. en-US. 2020-04-29.
  5. Web site: September 11, 1937 . Miss America Contestants . 2020-04-29 . Getty Images . en-us.
  6. Web site: 2018-07-05 . Miss America 1938 Candidates . 2020-04-29 . Miss America . en-US.
  7. Web site: April 22, 2009 . Irma Nydia Vázquez la primera boricua en Miss América . 2020-04-29 . Primera Hora.
  8. Web site: Vargas Casiano . Patricia . 2019-05-02 . Muere la abuela del cantante Pedro Capó . 2020-04-29 . El Nuevo Dia . es-pr.
  9. Web site: 2018-06-28 . Miss America 1948 Candidates . 2020-04-29 . Miss America . en-US.
  10. Web site: 1948 Pageant Contract American Experience . 2020-04-29 . PBS . en.
  11. Báez. Nancy Abreu. 2019-06-28. He sido el incomprendido: la historia de Bobby Capó by Víctor Federico Torres (review). Caribbean Studies. en. 47. 1. 158–161. 10.1353/crb.2019.0012. 198666172 . 1940-9095.
  12. http://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/bobby-capo-other-compositions
  13. Web site: Irma Nydia Vazquez . ObitTree.com . 17 January 2020.
  14. News: Una historia digna de admiración: Irma Nydia Vázquez en el recuerdo . 2 January 2024 . Periódico El Adoquín . 10 September 2019.

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