Comments on: Sharing The Name Tenley https://mynameistenley.com Mon, 29 Nov 2021 20:44:16 +0000 hourly 1 By: eleekg https://mynameistenley.com/sharing-the-name-tenley/#comment-26 Mon, 02 Apr 2018 23:18:01 +0000 http://mynameistenley.com/?page_id=12#comment-26 In reply to Tenley Vigil.

So great to hear this, Tenley! Welcome!

]]> By: Tenley Vigil https://mynameistenley.com/sharing-the-name-tenley/#comment-25 Fri, 30 Mar 2018 11:46:40 +0000 http://mynameistenley.com/?page_id=12#comment-25 My name is Tenley Marie Vigil I was born on June 27th, 1961. And as it seems at the time I may have been one if the top Tenleys born since the name first came out in 1958. My parents loved watching Tenley Albright and there fore that’s who I was named after

]]> By: Tenley Nadine https://mynameistenley.com/sharing-the-name-tenley/#comment-24 Sat, 31 Dec 2016 06:24:15 +0000 http://mynameistenley.com/?page_id=12#comment-24 When my older sister Kristina was born (1990) there was a nurse helping out in the delivery room named Tenley Street. While waiting my parents noticed her named tag and she told them how she had been named after Tenley Albright. They liked the story, and the name, but already had Kristina picked out. About a year later though they returned to the same hospital and gave birth to me. They remembered the story from a year ago, so they named me Tenley Nadine Sablatzky (Nadine, I believe, they just liked the sound of). After the delivery my Dad says he ran through the hallways searching for Tenley Street and screaming “THERE’S ANOTHER TENLEY!”

]]> By: eleekg https://mynameistenley.com/sharing-the-name-tenley/#comment-23 Wed, 30 Nov 2016 20:08:50 +0000 http://mynameistenley.com/?page_id=12#comment-23 In reply to Tenley Toppins.

We hope this forum – and the My Name is Tenley Facebook page – will help connect you with so many others!

]]> By: eleekg https://mynameistenley.com/sharing-the-name-tenley/#comment-22 Wed, 30 Nov 2016 20:08:02 +0000 http://mynameistenley.com/?page_id=12#comment-22 In reply to Patsy Ann Salerno.

Welcome, Tenley! SO happy to hear this happy news!

]]> By: Patsy Ann Salerno https://mynameistenley.com/sharing-the-name-tenley/#comment-21 Mon, 27 Jun 2016 21:12:24 +0000 http://mynameistenley.com/?page_id=12#comment-21 My new granddaughter was just born on June 25th 2016 Tenley Ann Pinchot. I love her name and she is a perfect TEN!

]]> By: Tenley Toppins https://mynameistenley.com/sharing-the-name-tenley/#comment-20 Sun, 12 Jun 2016 16:38:02 +0000 http://mynameistenley.com/?page_id=12#comment-20 I am thrilled to see this page!!!! I am 62 yrs old and once tried writing Tenley Albright via MIT but she probably didn’t see it. I have always wondered how she got her name, now I finally know! Her mother liked the sound of it? So did my mother! She had just had a baby girl and expecting a boy,had no female name picked out. She was leafing through Life Magazine and saw the article about the up and coming (in 1953) ice skater who was put on ice skates to help her with therapy for polio named Tenley Albright and knew immediately that would be my name. I still have that Life Magazine article and another article from about 1960 or so? and have always made copies of them for anyone knowing someone named Tenley. I have never met one Tenley in person and I have always imagined it to be a strange feeling, 2 people in the same room that would answer to the name Tenley?? I can’t imagine it! Thank you for this site and for our wonderful name sake, Tenley Albright!

]]> By: Mother of Tenley Bowser https://mynameistenley.com/sharing-the-name-tenley/#comment-15 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 14:58:55 +0000 http://mynameistenley.com/?page_id=12#comment-15 What and how you call something matters – always. Naming your child is one of the joys (and responsibilities) of being a parent. Of course my husband and I took that responsibility very seriously. Our family was super “lucky” to be blessed with a healthy and beautiful baby girl on 07/07/07!! She is our second daughter and her older sister was named after my beloved grandmother (and my first baby doll) Wilhelmina. Not finding out the gender beforehand (another joy and surprise of being a parent!), I went into the hospital with names that were unique like Quinnlan and Mairin just in case we had another girl. However when she was born the names just didn’t fit and so we began the search that would express the signature for her life . Truthfully the first time Tenley was mentioned as a contender was after watching “Summer Catch” about a baseball team on Cape Cod and Jessica Beal was the beautiful, sophisticated, and successful love interest. And she was becoming a brilliant architect…which all seemed like qualities we would love to develop in our little girl. But with family heritage being so important to us (…and the mother who now was struggling to find the perfect name for this beautiful baby all full of postpartum emotion) my husband who was absolutely sure this was the name, came to my bedside with his research. The Bowsers (our last name), the Claypooles (from his father’s side) and the Tenleys were all families that settled in Yorkshire England in the 1700’s. That was something but ….he them reminded me….”AND of course Tenley Albright was the Silver and Gold Olympic American medalist in 1952 and 1956 who graduated Harvard and became a brilliant Surgeon in Boston. “NOW THAT IS THE KIND OF SUCCESS and CHARACTER in a role model that we would like to be our prayer for this baby girl! And so…. Tenley Kathleen(after my mother) was brought into the world. Shortly after introducing her around town I became aware that there was another “famous local” named Tenley in the seacoast who was 70 and known for being a a musician in a rock band, driving a motorcycle and wearing her black leather jacket proudly.WOW, we haven’t met her yet either but it is clear to me that by calling our daughter Tenley she is in good company with role models that are brave enough to be themselves, achieve great things by doing what they love, and strive build character through intelligence and compassion. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Dr. Albright. And thank you for your life story as we teach our little Tenley about becoming a successful woman.

]]> By: eleekg https://mynameistenley.com/sharing-the-name-tenley/#comment-14 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 14:46:51 +0000 http://mynameistenley.com/?page_id=12#comment-14 In reply to Tenley Page Bevins.

What an incredible story! Thank you for posting it! We hope to see you in July (bring the jar! 🙂 ) and if you can find the 6 people named after you, we would love to be in touch!

]]> By: Tenley Page Bevins https://mynameistenley.com/sharing-the-name-tenley/#comment-13 Sat, 05 Apr 2014 20:02:16 +0000 http://mynameistenley.com/?page_id=12#comment-13 Hello All and Happy Spring!

I am thrilled to have been included in the chronicles and archives building here to create a lifetime tribute to our wonderful namesake, Dr. Tenley Albright. I was born in March of 1953. It was a veritable blizzard in West Newbury Massachusetts. I had one older brother, aged 2 at the time, and my mother was disinclined to go to the hospital with any urgency. She telephone my Dad at his work which was quite a distance to drive in deep snow. As time passed, she did laundry, made meals, vacuumed the house…. until she suddenly realized that she just may have waited too long. She called her best friend from up the street to watch my brother, and then called her Doctor, Dr. Lois Smith, who trudged through the snow banks to get at our house just after I have already arrived. My Dad appeared a few minutes later and was handed my brother and told that “Things are happening!” He was horrified and yet anxious to know what to do to help.

Dr. Smith finished the delivery and left my Mom to rest while she ran down some instructions for my poor, shaken Dad. Back then, a home birth was considered dirty so they would not allow the babies to go to the hospital for fear that they would make the other babies ill. My Dad sat by my side all that first night. During that night he was terrified to discover that my umbilical cord had become undone. He raced madly through the house to find some scissors and some string so he could boil them to sterile them for use to retie the bleeding cord. After that day, he was never without a tiny baby food jar with a sterile string and a tiny pair of scissors in it. He is now 94, (and incidentally was born on the same day as Dr. Tenley), and he still has that jar. Interestingly at or around age 18, he told me (kiddingly) that there had been times that he wondered if he had done the right thing. I sure was a trying teenager.

I am happy to say that I did turn out just fine. I am a Registered Nurse and have worked in almost every kind of Nursing field. Currently I am a School Nurse in Danvers, MA, working with middle school aged children and I love it. I have 3 amazing and inspiring daughters, Briana, Kelsey and Taryn. In keeping with my Mom’s feelings about unique names for children, I tried to do the same. Those names have become quite popular over the years, so they are not as unique now as they had been when they were born. I am so completely in love with and in awe of my girls and I hope to be able to bring at least one of them with me to the gathering in July.

Incidentally, I have had 6 Tenley’s named for me, and in being honest here, I found it a little unnerving having a Tenley scolded when I was in the room. It was never not about me before. I can get used to that. 🙂

Thank you to Dr. Tenley Albright for our legacy. I am so looking forward to meeting you and speaking to you and your wonderful daughter as well.

Tenley Page Bevins

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