OREM — Ned Hill's mother was terrified that her son, daughter-in-law and new baby granddaughter were going to travel away from Utah to Cornell University in New York.

"Isn't there danger on these eastern campuses?" she said.

"Oh Mom, there may be on other campuses, but Cornell is the most peaceful campus of any," he responded.

This was 1969, and two weeks after he defended Cornell's atmosphere, the cover of Newsweek magazine featured students wearing bandoliers of bullets and carrying machine guns. They had just taken control of a building at Cornell.

"See, I told you. It's dangerous going back there," she said.

But Ned and Claralyn Hill did go east. They were part of a movement of Mormons leaving the Intermountain West in pursuit of their dreams.

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