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.