Penny Chenery
Businessperson, Person Or Being In Fiction
1922 –
Who is Penny Chenery?
Helen Bates "Penny" Chenery Tweedy is an American sportswoman who bred and raced Secretariat, the 1973 winner of the Triple Crown. The youngest of three children, she graduated from The Madeira School in 1939 and earned a Bachelor of Arts from Smith College, then studied at the Columbia Business School, where she met her future husband, John Tweedy, Sr., a Columbia Law School student. In March 2011, Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia awarded Chenery an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree. Married in May 1949, the couple had four children. In 1973 horseracing telecasts, CBS called her Penny Chenery, not Penny Tweedy.
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- Born
- Jan 27, 1922
New Rochelle - Also known as
- Penny Chenery Tweedy
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- John Bayard Tweedy, Sr.
(1949/05 - ) - Lennart Ringquist
- John Bayard Tweedy, Sr.
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Columbia Business School
- Smith College
- Madeira School
- Lived in
- Virginia
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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