Irma Nydia Vázquez
Puerto Rican beauty pageant contestant (1929–2019) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]