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Photo gallery Chancellor Emerita Blank remembered at service

March 6, 2023 ​

People shared memories of Chancellor Emerita Rebecca Blank, sang “Varsity” and offered condolences during a memorial service for her on Saturday, March 4, at First Congregational United Church of Christ in Madison, with a reception following in Union South’s Varsity Hall. Blank, who was chancellor from 2013-2022, died of cancer Feb. 17 near Madison, Wisconsin. She was 67.

People sing while standing arm-in-arm.

Guests gather to sing “Varsity." Photo by: Althea Dotzour

A couple speaks to a woman.

Tashia Morgridge, left, and John Morgridge speak with Chancellor Emerita Blank’s daughter, Emily Kuttner. Photo by: Althea Dotzour

A couple speak with a man.

Guests, including Carl Laurino, Interim Chief Operating and Financial Officer, Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association and Susan Nicholas Faciano, member of the UW Carbone Cancer Center Advisory Board, greet Blank’s husband, Hanns Kuttner, left, during the memorial reception in Varsity Hall. Photo by: Althea Dotzour

Four people stand with emotional expressions on their faces.

Joanne Otis, a childhood friend of Chancellor Emerita Blank, looks on during the memorial reception. Photo by: Althea Dotzour

Two women look at a portrait of Chancellor Emerita Blank.

Guests admire a portrait of Blank celebrating her contributions to UW–Madison, Northwestern University and the Big Ten. Photo by: Althea Dotzour

A couple speak with a man, emotional expressions on their faces.

Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin, second from right, and her husband, Joshua Foa Dienstag, right, speak with Blank’s husband, Hanns Kuttner, at the memorial reception. Photo by: Althea Dotzour

People mill about a room, talking with each other.

Guests, including Steve Ackerman, Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education and Cynthia Nethercut and her husband, Joe Altonji, Thomas DeWitt Cuyler Professor of Economics at Yale University, greet Blank’s husband, Hanns Kuttner, at right, and her daughter, Emily Kuttner, second from left. Photo by: Althea Dotzour

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