Tenley Albright

Tenley Emma Albright (born July 18, 1935) is an American former figure skater and surgeon.

Each winter, he would flood an area behind his house to create a skating rink for Albright and her friends.

"[4] Since her illness left her muscles “weak and withered”, she started training at the Skating Club of Boston as part of her rehabilitation.

[4][3] In 1956, while training for the Olympics, Albright fell due to a rut in the ice and cut her right ankle joint to the bone with her left skate.

[1] A graduate of The Winsor School in Boston, Albright entered Radcliffe College in 1953 as a pre-med student,[9] and focused on completing her education after the 1956 Olympics.

As a director, she has served both not-for-profits such as The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and for-profit enterprises such as West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc., and State Street Bank and Trust Company.

From 1981-2021 she was married to former Ritz-Carlton hotel owner Gerald Blakeley, who shared her association with Woods Hole and was chair of The Morehouse School of Medicine.

Tenley Albright and Tudor Gardiner getting married on December 31, 1961