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In Gordon's words of his hometown, "Well my, Vernal, Utah was a very small town, about thirty five hundred people, it the largest city between Salt Lake City and Denver, which is a distance of about seven hundred miles, sort of the distance between Boston and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It was a very rural part of the state, and my mother and father were very active citizens. And they were very active with me when I was growing up and, great family, great friends. It was a very religious community. I am a Mormon, and Utah is heavily populated with Mormon's, about ninety percent of the people in my home town were members of that religion, so it was a very religiously, socially intensive environment." Gordon graduated with a graduate degree from Columbia University and gives an academic outlook on the 1960s, most notably 1968.[|Gordon Gee Interview Transcript]