[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 6 (Tuesday, February 1, 1994)]
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  TRIBUTE TO BARKLEY MOORE OF KENTUCKY REMEMBERING ONE OF KENTUCKY'S 
                            FINEST CITIZENS

 Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I rise today to honor the memory 
of a true giant in Kentucky. Mr. Barkley Moore of Oneida, KY, was a 
leader of the Kentucky Baptists and president of the Oneida Institute 
boarding school.
  Mr. Moore had been president of the Oneida Institute since 1972, and 
had brought the small school from the brink of financial ruin. Today 
the school boasts an enrollment of 600 and an annual budget of almost 
$4 million.
  Mr. President, it was not solely in Kentucky that Mr. Moore exhibited 
his gift of helping those in need. In the 1960's he completed 6 years 
of service to the Peace Corps in Gonbad Kavous, Iran, located in the 
northeastern section of the country. There he helped establish a public 
library, a kindergarten, two school buildings, and a modern science 
laboratory.
  It was with a strong sense of duty that Mr. Moore returned to 
Kentucky to head up his alma mater, the Oneida Institute. The small 
Baptist boarding school located in the southeastern part of Kentucky 
was struggling along until Moore returned. Over the next 24 years Mr. 
Moore devoted every waking moment and ounce of energy he had to the 
Institute.
  Mr. President, Barkley Moore had a motto he referred to when he 
described the school. He said, ``You don't have to be anybody to get 
here, but you're going to be somebody before you leave.'' Mr. Moore 
made sure that his students lived up to his expectations, instilling in 
them the same qualities as he possessed, a solid work ethic and strong 
moral values.
  Mr. President, I ask my colleagues to join me in remembering this 
wonderful and compassionate man. Barkley Moore was someone who gave to 
others throughout his entire life and his absence will be felt by all 
whose lives he touched. In addition, I ask that a story from the 
January 26 edition of the Louisville Courier-Journal be inserted in the 
Record at this point.
  The article follows:

          [From the Louisville Courier-Journal, Jan. 26, 1994]

                Barkley Moore Dies; Led Oneida Institute

                         (By Mark E. McCormick)

       Barkley Moore, regarded as a giant in Kentucky Baptist 
     life, died yesterday of an apparent heart attack at his home 
     on the Oneida Institute campus in Oneida. He was 52.
       Moore was president of Oneida Institute, a Baptist boarding 
     school, since 1972. He moved the school from the brink of 
     financial ruin to its current enrollment of 600 and nearly $4 
     million budget.
       Moore was perhaps best known for his six-year stay in Iran 
     with the Peace Corps in the 1960s, during which he helped 
     establish a public library, a kindergarten, two school 
     buildings and a modern science laboratory.
       Gonbad Kavous in northeastern Iran, a town of 40,000, 
     wanted Moore to stay to continue his work in community 
     development and teaching English. But he returned to 
     Kentucky, where in 1972 he assumed the presidency of the 
     Onedia Institute, from which he graduated in 1958.
       The school, about 65 miles southeast of Lexington, consumed 
     his life thereafter.
       Moore's work at the school allowed him to reach out to 
     youngsters who needed guidance, said friend A.B. Colvin who 
     was also Moore's special assistant at Oneida Institute.
       ``He was really interested in helping children,'' said 
     Colvin, a retired employee for the Kentucky Baptist 
     Convention. ``He used to say that you don't have to be 
     anybody to get here, but you're going to be somebody before 
     you leave. If you've ever heard of someone who gave his all 
     for the cause, he was the one.''
       Oneida Institute was Moore's cause, Colvin said. ``He lived 
     it about 20 hours a day, Everything he did, he did it 
     running.'' Moore never married and lived in a dormitory room 
     on the campus, Colvin said.
       Colvin said Moore would be remembered for his larger-than-
     life status, figuratively and literally. Moore had won 
     respect statewide for his efforts to keep the school afloat, 
     and he was a hearty man of nearly 350 pounds.
       ``He had a tremendous amount of faith, not just in God, but 
     faith in people,'' Colvin said. ``He is considered by 
     Kentucky Baptist as a super-human type of a fellow.''
       Moore, a University of Kentucky graduate, is survived by 
     his parents, Elwood and Evelyn Moore, and a sister, Gloria 
     Bowling, all of Oneida.
       Funeral arrangements are incomplete.

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