Lorraine Esperidion Schuck is a Filipina beauty pageant titleholder who won Mutya ng Pilipinas Asia 1979 and represented the Philippines at the 1979 Miss Asia Quest. Her father is German or Filipino-German. She is one of the founders of, and is Executive Vice-President of,

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, which runs the international beauty pageant

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and

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Pageants

Mutya ng Pilipinas 1979

Schuck competed and was crowned Mutya ng Pilipinas Asia 1979 by Mutya ng Pilipinas Asia 1978, Epifania Lagman.

Miss Asia Quest 1979

Schuck represented the Philippines at the Miss Asia Quest 1979 pageant in

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, Philippines, where she finished second runner-up to Ayla Atlas of Turkey. She took the first runner up position when Maureen Mary Lestourgeon of India relinquished the position due to film commitments.

Career

Schuck studied

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St. Paul University Manila St. Paul University Manila (SPUM), also referred by its acronym SPU Manila, is a private, Catholic coeducational basic and higher education institution established and run by the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Paul of Chartres in Manila, P ...

and obtained her diploma in 1980. She worked in the

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office of the Philippine Department of Tourism and then shifted her career in real estate before working as a

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for

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. After winning the Mutya ng Pilipinas Asia 1979, she auditioned for a TV show and was accepted and worked as an actress for a number of TV shows, movies and also produced TV shows with his partner, Ramon Monzon until the late 1990s. She was cast in several TV shows such as ''Victoria Hills'', '' Anna Luna'', '' Chicks to Chicks'' and '' Chika Chika Chicks''. She also starred in various movies including ''Kapag Lumaban ang Api'' (with

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in 1987), '' Anak ni Zuma'' (with Max Laurel in 1987), ''Titser's Enemy No. 1'' in 1990 and

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'' (with

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in 1980).

Carousel Productions

Schuck is the

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, the former franchise holder and producer of the Mutya Pilipinas and

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pageants based in the Philippines. However, Schuck and the management of Carousel Productions relinquished the franchise in 2001 and decided to produce a beauty pageant whose cause is to promote

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. As a result, Miss Philippines (currently called Miss Philippines Earth) and

pageants were established. She is the Executive Vice President of Miss Earth and her spouse, Ramon Monzon as the President who is also the President, CEO, & Director of the

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and Chairman of the PSE Foundation, Inc. Schuck and Monzon created the

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in 2004 to further the pageant's causes and to work with local and international groups and non-governmental organizations that are actively involved in

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and improvement of the environment.

References

External links

Official Miss Earth website
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