Estefania aldaba-lim biography of williams

Estefania aldaba-lim biography of williams

Estefania aka Fanny Aldaba-Lim was an accomplished and internationally respected clinical psychologist whose contributions spanned much of the twentieth century. Born in and raised in Malolos, a small municipality in the Bulacan province of the Philippines, she enjoyed a lively childhood with her parents and 14 siblings.

She developed interests in classical music, ballet, opera, drama and travel which persisted into adulthood. Then, with a scholarship from the University of Michigan, she moved to Ann Arbor and came under the mentorship of American professors such as Walter Pillsbury and Norman Maier.

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There she became the first Filipina to obtain a PhD in clinical psychology in Soon after, she married Luis Lim, another Filipino scholar who had recently graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Together, they had six children before Lim sadly passed away in in an airplane accident.

In the three years during which Aldaba-Lim was pursuing a doctorate degree at the University of Michigan, the world was in the midst of the Second World War.