Queen of the Ice

Here is a girl who was stricken with infantile paralysis, and who proved feminine heroism in ice skating after her recovery!

Tenley Albright was eleven years old when she took to her bed, but she was not left paralyzed for life: four months later she won the women's championship of the United States in ice skating. And now that she has reached eighteen, a 'freshman' at Radcliffe College, Tenley is counted the queen of world skating. She took the title of United States champion for the years 1952 and 1953, was given the Olympic silver medal in 1952, and in February 1953 she performed brilliantly on the heights of Switzerland — she was the first woman to win such fame in the athletic field. Yet with all this she is still devoted to pursuing her studies at the university, and sport has no part in her program of study!

Tenley's grace and charm in skating qualify her to make a profession of this art, but she is not content with that: she wishes rather to follow the path her father paved for her in the medical field, and thereby to render abundant services to suffering humanity.