July 2026 Luncheon

Tuesday, July 21, 2026 - 12:00 PM

Failure and Fortitude: How Faith, Politics and Power Shaped the Teton Dam Disaster, reexamines the Teton Dam Failure. This presentation will do a deep dive into the failure, the reasons the design decisions were made and the lives that were impacted.

Speaker(s)

Nathaniel Gee

Nathaniel Gee is a professional civil engineer and has worked as a dam safety engineer for over 15 years. He has performed inspections on of some of nation’s largest and oldest dams. He, like Chevy Chase, has rappelled down the face of Hoover Dam. Nathaniel received a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Brigham Young University, and a master’s degree, also in Civil Engineering, from the University of Nevada - Las Vegas. With nothing else to do he went back to school and picked up his PhD. In his spare time he loves to write and has published two romantic comedies. He recently completed his third book, Failure and Fortitude: How Faith, Politics and Power Shaped the Teton Dam Disaster. He lives in Signal Mountain Tennessee with his wonderful wife, Jeanine, and ten energetic children. 

Location

DRC Room 1A

1250 Market St. Chattanooga, TN 37402