Class Note 1974
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July-August 2026
Class Note 1974. Summertime and I hope your livin’ is easy.
Artemis II mission pilot Victor Glover, nephew of Jay Sulieman (who we knew as Edgar Satterwhite) shared the following from space with an earthbound reporter back in April: “You guys are talking to us because we’re in a spaceship really far from Earth, but you’re on a spaceship called Earth that was created to give us a place to live in the universe. Maybe the distance from you makes you think we’re doing something special, but we’re the same distance from you. And I’m trying to tell you—just trust me—you are special.” Try that out on a loved one today.
Old news: Our Black classmates are dying at a rate of 2.3 times our non-Black classmates. In May our third cohort of health equity scholars presented findings from their research into various aspects of health equity. You can find summaries of their work on the class website.
That said, the questions that remain are: Why is this happening and what can we do to ameliorate these disparities among future Dartmouth alumni?
New news: To begin to answer these questions, this past winter term the class of 1974 partnered with students in the sociology senior research capstone course (Sociology 92), where students work with a community problem and conduct social science research to help a partner solve a problem or answer a question. In short, this group of students began to tackle the question of what happened to our guys. Their initial research findings are on the website. We expect to further our partnership with the sociology department going forward and learn more. More, much more, to come.
In June 2025 Tom Guidi, Peter DeNatale, and Duncan Todd gathered to send texts on behalf of the Dartmouth College Fund. The conversation turned to Peter’s hiking trip visiting huts in the Dolomites. Nine months later Duncan and Sarah were in Patagonia with Peter and Sue hiking under the shadow of Mount Fitz Roy and in the Lake Argentina area. Duncan reports, “For Sarah and me, visiting the El Calafate and El Chaltén region was an extension of a longer journey through southern Chile and Argentina. Ever since I read Joshua Slocum’s Sailing Around the World Alone as a 10-year-old, I have dreamed of seeing Terra del Fuego and Cape Horn. Fortunate are we who can fulfill even some of our dreams.”
Please share your bucket list.
Rick Ranger shared what he’s reading: David Levering Lewis’ W.E.B. DuBois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919, “a vividly written portrayal of the experience of being Black in the years following implementation of Jim Crow” and beyond. He’s also recommended Katherine Stewart’s The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism.
I’m reading Bad Indians Book Club by Patty Krawec. The Indigenous writers Krawec interacts with in the book “refuse to let dominant stories displace their own.”
Send news—or I’ll have to make something up!
—Bill Geiger, 7521 Sheffingdell Dr., Charlotte, NC 28226; (847) 322-5920;1974damnotes@gmail.com
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Artemis II mission pilot Victor Glover, nephew of Jay Sulieman (who we knew as Edgar Satterwhite) shared the following from space with an earthbound reporter back in April: “You guys are talking to us because we’re in a spaceship really far from Earth, but you’re on a spaceship called Earth that was created to give us a place to live in the universe. Maybe the distance from you makes you think we’re doing something special, but we’re the same distance from you. And I’m trying to tell you—just trust me—you are special.” Try that out on a loved one today.
Old news: Our Black classmates are dying at a rate of 2.3 times our non-Black classmates. In May our third cohort of health equity scholars presented findings from their research into various aspects of health equity. You can find summaries of their work on the class website.
That said, the questions that remain are: Why is this happening and what can we do to ameliorate these disparities among future Dartmouth alumni?
New news: To begin to answer these questions, this past winter term the class of 1974 partnered with students in the sociology senior research capstone course (Sociology 92), where students work with a community problem and conduct social science research to help a partner solve a problem or answer a question. In short, this group of students began to tackle the question of what happened to our guys. Their initial research findings are on the website. We expect to further our partnership with the sociology department going forward and learn more. More, much more, to come.
In June 2025 Tom Guidi, Peter DeNatale, and Duncan Todd gathered to send texts on behalf of the Dartmouth College Fund. The conversation turned to Peter’s hiking trip visiting huts in the Dolomites. Nine months later Duncan and Sarah were in Patagonia with Peter and Sue hiking under the shadow of Mount Fitz Roy and in the Lake Argentina area. Duncan reports, “For Sarah and me, visiting the El Calafate and El Chaltén region was an extension of a longer journey through southern Chile and Argentina. Ever since I read Joshua Slocum’s Sailing Around the World Alone as a 10-year-old, I have dreamed of seeing Terra del Fuego and Cape Horn. Fortunate are we who can fulfill even some of our dreams.”
Please share your bucket list.
Rick Ranger shared what he’s reading: David Levering Lewis’ W.E.B. DuBois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919, “a vividly written portrayal of the experience of being Black in the years following implementation of Jim Crow” and beyond. He’s also recommended Katherine Stewart’s The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism.
I’m reading Bad Indians Book Club by Patty Krawec. The Indigenous writers Krawec interacts with in the book “refuse to let dominant stories displace their own.”
Send news—or I’ll have to make something up!
—Bill Geiger, 7521 Sheffingdell Dr., Charlotte, NC 28226; (847) 322-5920;1974damnotes@gmail.com