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Campus Review
July 3, 2013
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Lee Moore to Hitchhike the Silk Road
by John Shiffert, University Relations
When last we checked in with Lee Moore,
the son of one Clayton State University’s
more noted alumni; former Clayton State
faculty member and acting dean Dr.
Benita H. Moore, he was travelling
through Mongolia.
While on a summer 2007 trip to the
Nadaam Festival in Ulan Bataar, the capi-
tal of Mongolia, Moore and his brother
Walter Moore discovered that Clayton
State caps were for sale in an outpost on
the other side of the world from Morrow,
Ga.
“It was at a hat stall that we stumbled on
the Clayton State hat,” said Moore at that
time. “I don't recall seeing hats from any
other universities… UGA, Georgia Tech,
Harvard. Walter was the one who discov-
ered it among some major league baseball
caps. It was 2000 Togrog or about US$2.
We didn't buy it, thinking that it would be
better to leave it there as an ad.”
Obviously still attracted to the steppes of
central Asia, Lee Moore (currently doing
consulting related to China) will be
returning there after winning an
Adventure Grant from Outside Magazine,
a grant to hitchhike the fabled Silk Road
in the footsteps of Marco Polo, et al.
“Lee and his friend, Galen Burke, applied
for a grant. Lee is getting $10,000 as a
part of a project to hitchhike the Silk Road
in China, which they will do sometime
next year,” explains Benita Moore. “Both
hope to use the project to gain exposure
and make business contacts, and they are
planning to submit the film they produce
to the Banff Film Festival.”
Lee Moore won the Adventure Grant via
an online contest run by Outside.
“We won! I got word that it's official. We
still have to take care of some paperwork,
but we should be finished with that in a
few days,” he says in thanking his sup-
porters from Clayton State who voted for
him on line.
“We are planning on doing the trip along
the Chinese portion of the Silk Road next
spring. There will probably be some sort
of email list or blog or Tumblr feed or
Twitter account or some combination of
those. I’ll let you know what Clayton
State paraphernalia we find in Kashgar or
Urumqi.”
On May 31, 2013, the Clayton State community gathered to dedicate the CSRA Butterfly Garden. The garden is a collaborative project of the Clayton
State Retirees Association and the Landscape Management Department, and is dedicated to the faculty, staff and students of Clayton State University.