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Name:  Rosalina Saute Sapolu                        

Village  Faatoiaalamanu

Date of Birth : 3 August 1955  

Where: Vaiala Apia

Parents:

Father :Saute Savave Sapolu  

Mother:Fa'amalumaluga ale Tuimanu'a Brown 

Year you were crowned Miss Samoa: 1978

Where was it held?

• Tusitala Hotel                     

You were sponsored by?                                     

• Development Bank Samoa

What were some of the highlights of this evening as you saw it?

• Winning the “Miss Silhouette” title ( beauty of the figure )

• Shocked and stunned when crowned as “Miss Samoa 1978”

Did you dedicate this win to someone? Who was it, and why?

• Yes to the sponsor, the Development Bank.  I would once again like to thank all those wonderful people at the Development Bank.

What were some of the highlights during your reign?

• Represented Western Samoa in the 1978 Miss World Beauty Pageant in London.  A life time experience that I will always treasure.
  

• Attended the June Daly Watkins Modeling School in Auckland, New Zealand (part of the preparations for the Miss World Beauty Pageant).
  

• Represented Western Samoa in the 1979 Miss South Pacific Beauty Pageant in Suva, Fiji.
  

• Nominated by the committee for Miss American Samoa to represent Samoa in the 1980 Miss Universe Beauty Pageant in Seoul, Korea.  I did not participate because I had just started a new career in Suva, Fiji.
  

• Opportunities overseas such as a scholarship to pursue a modeling career in the United States.  There was employment offered by Ed Daly the owner of the World Airways in Oakland, San Francisco.

Briefly describe your career path after your reign as Miss Samoa.

1979(Nov)-1983 I was with the Air Pacific Co. Ltd.  November 1983 as a flight attendant, immigrated to the United States and was employed by the first interstate Bank of California.  And then in November 1989, I got married and my first child was born in 1991.  This was also the year I decided to leave work and my studies to become a full time mom.

Briefly tell us what you do at present? (Business, studying, working etc..)

Have you achieved what you set out to do in the beginning?

• My foremost interest was to travel and enjoy my single life to the fullest.  Yes, I traveled a great deal and it really broadened my horizons, personality, appearance development and a lot of exciting challenges.  As for my single life I thoroughly enjoyed every minute.

What do you hope to achieve in the next five years?

• To still maintain good health and continue providing a safe, happy and stable home where my children can grow and prosper.

What is your most valuable advice to young Samoan women in today’s changing Samoan community?

• Be honest. Its about self integrity and self respect. To be honest we must possess the courage to confront what we fear, especially that of rejection, failure and humiliation. This is important as we grow up to be mothers in our family and to pass this on to our children

• Be yourself – if people don’t accept you – tough luck – “I don’t believe in acting it will come tough sooner or later.

• Lastly “remind your self that success is not measured by the outward trappings but rather by the inward growth and satisfaction you achieve”

And finally who in society or in the community do you most admire and why?

• Mothers. No being has a position of  great power. She is responsible for the making of good citizens of a nation