FORTUNA, CA, December 12, 2025 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Tom Gage has been selected for inclusion in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.

Dr. Gage's academic background was established between 1958 and 1973 at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts, a Master of Arts, and a Doctorate of the Study of Higher Education.

Beyond his degrees and 60-year career in education in the U.S. and abroad, Dr. Gage remains actively involved in civic, professional, and creative endeavors. His extensive publications cover a variety of genres, from poetry to encyclopedia entries. He is currently developing 'Braddock,' a streaming TV adaptation of his book 'American Prometheus,' with assistance from E.P. Josh Ferrell, producer of Anthony Bourdain's 'Parts Unknown,' and William Novak, creative developer of 'Generation Iron.' His Hollywood producer notes, "Tom's career has been hitchhiking the labyrinth," referencing one of Gage's many publications. With a 1958 re-release of Thomas Gage's 'Travels in the New World,' a reissue of an early 17th-century work by a relative, young Tom Gage took a leave from some college semesters to travel as far east as the Fertile Crescent.

The most notable achievement in Dr. Gage's six decades was his role as Master of Ceremonies in the Rayburn Building of the U. S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., at which he was awarded on May 30th, 2012, the Certificate of Appreciation for Dr. Gage's Outstanding Support and Leadership for the Gülen Institute Youth Platform. Winners of his essay contest from 2010 to 2015 traveled to Washington, D.C. for a four-day tour from 37 nations and 26 states of the U.S. to receive awards from their state Congress members or their country's ambassadors. As an Emeritus Professor, Dr. Gage participated in the U.N.'s Fourth Annual Conference of the Alliance of Civilizations in Qatar in 2011.

In the 1980s, Dr. Gage lectured often in Greece. For the University of Montana's summer NDEA Institute in Athens, he was a guest speaker on Mythology, and often on Paros, at the Aegean School of Classical Studies, where he served as its director in 1987. The Greek word εθος represents a motive for Dr. Gage's missions, a term that translates as "to have," with a future aorist aspect. This aspect indicates a quality in performances, recorded in the past and observed in the present, on which consistency is likely; it is a more substantial adjective than accountability.

For half of his career, Dr. Gage was Professor of English at Humboldt State University, a part of the California State University System on the State's North Coast. His students during these years have become leading educators at every level of education and leaders in their fields. Two of whom he mentored became the University Alumni of the years 2014 and 2021. The latter, while a graduate, became the Creator of Writing Trek, recipient of the Association of Curriculum and Development's "The Best of the Best in Education Software 2000." Within two decades, this now C.E.O. of BookHeadEd developed Literature Courses, www.studysync.com, which presently serves 3 million students every school day. As Professor of English with responsibilities in teaching the English methods course for graduate student teachers in the Education Department, he supervised student teachers placed in secondary schools in Northwestern California.

Much of the other half of his career has been spent serving abroad, including a Fulbright grant in Syria, presenting papers in Morocco, Turkey, India, and several other countries. Since 1981, he has traveled every year, except during the COVID-19 pandemic. From 1971 to 1973, he served as Dean of three summer programs for American students to travel/learn in a total of five European nations.

Dr. Gage early manifested a talent for developing curricula. When he taught in the Oakland schools, he created a humanities class that was later adopted in all the District's schools. At Concord, in its four-year secondary school, he, as chair, introduced selective English options for students from 10th to 12th grade. This model was soon adopted by Mt. Diablo Unified's six high schools, leading to Dr. Gage's role as a Consultant for English in its administration, overseeing K-12 schools in English and Reading. This district was the seventh-largest public school district in the state of California. His work has appeared in books published by the U.C. Press, The Press of Cal Poly Humboldt, SCM-Cune Press of Seattle, the Encyclopedia of English Language Studies, Scholastic Leadership Policy Research, Scott Foresman & Company of Chicago, as well as Brill in Leiden, which has been publishing for over three hundred years.

Dr. Gage, who retired in 2006, continues to publish. His work includes Queens Marrying North, based on a paper delivered at the 2011 VI International Conference at the University of Ibn Tofail in Kénitra, Morocco. He wrote Gülen's Dialogue on Education: A Caravansarai of Ideas in 2014 and co-authored "Biblical Time Out of Mind: Myths, Maps, & Memories" with James A. Freeman in 2016, both published by SCM-Cune Press in Seattle. His book "American Prometheus: The Steel Genius Who Made Andrew Carnegie," an Apple iBook published in Cupertino, CA, appeared in 2012. Prior to that, he contributed articles to journals, including "Revisiting Braddock of the 1870s, 1880s: Captain Bill Jones …Cora Jones, Charlie Schwab, Daniel Gage," in the Braddock's Field Historical Society Newsletter, March/April 1998. Recognition of Dr. Gage's work, American Prometheus, included two silver medals at the 2013 New York City Book Expo, a "Best Regional E-Book-East" award, and an "eLIT Award for Illuminating Digital Publishing Excellence."

Among the many papers by Dr. Gage from conferences, the following were included in anthologies edited by others, including "Into the Woods with the Moffetts," as epilogue in Toward a Re-Emergence of James Moffett's Mindful, Spiritual Student-Centered Pedagogy, edited in 2023 by Jonathan Marine et al., published by Peter Lang: NY., as well as Chapter 1, "Steinbeck Knew Dad Better Than I Did" in Henry Veggian's East of Eden: New and Recent Essays, published in 2013 by Brill/Rodopi. Additional papers appear in anthologies in languages other than English, including in 2014 "Between Rorschachs and Fractals: Sense and Sound", the introduction in Hamid Rahimi's Unfinished Smile: A Selection of Short Modern Persian Poetry (in Farsi), in 2001 "Binding Worlds in Words: How a Post-Columbian Travel Writer Fashioned Linguistic Categories to Inform Experience", and en Homenaje a Alejandro de Humboldt: Literatura de viajes desde y hacia Latinoamérica. Siglos XV al XXI, and in 1986 "Türkiue'NiN Thomas Jefferspm'i." pp. 101-113. Turing [Istanbul] Ed. Yayin. SAYI75/354: (lang. Turkish) (1986).

Dr. Gage's civic efforts are best exemplified by his hosting the Chair of the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors, along with her committee of three representatives, Redwood Small Business, the Office of Tourism, and education, on a trip to the Guangxi Autonomous Region in China in 1991. The venture established a Sister County to Sister Region MOU. Professor Gage returned to China for the next two summers to serve as a resident lecturer at two universities and led a group from several states on a tour of cities across China. An outcome has become his university's International Studies major, for which he received, in 2006, the International Resource Committee Certificate of Appreciation. Other curricular innovations of his at the university include the founding of the Redwood Writing Project, the second-oldest and flagship of the Federally funded National Writing Project from 1983 to 2012. His first year on the campus, Dr. Gage initiated his department's Master's Degree in the Teaching of Writing.

A lifelong member of the California Federation of Teachers, he has also continued to participate in California's Asilomar English Conference since 1963. In 2026, the conference is in its 72nd year. Of these, Dr. Gage has chaired several of its gatherings, including the 2006 Annual Conference and three spring conferences. In 1973, his Alternative Approaches to the Teaching of English, featured James Moffett and a representative from Astronaut Edgar Mitchell's Noetic Science Center; in 1979, his Brain/Mind spring featured pioneer brain surgeon, Dr. Joseph Bogen, whose colleague, Dr. Roger Sperry, a Nobel Laureate; and in 2000, Gage's Brain/Mind in Retrospect, featuring pioneer of Laparoscopic surgery, Dr. Leonard Shlain of California Western Hospital. Additionally, Dr. Gage's civic work involves supporting and speaking on behalf of the International Hizmet Civic Movement.

Dr. Gage's schooling began with kindergarten, when he resided with the Veith Orphanage, followed by his living with an elderly couple in his early grades, during the height of World War II, when rents skyrocketed in the Bay Area. His mother, a Bostonian, had been divorced since he was nearly two; she was the secretary for the General Manager of Carnation Milk in West Oakland. This accounted for his having 10 addresses by the time of his high school graduation. While pursuing his education, he worked persistently, including manual labor in a cinder block factory to underwriting for a San Francisco office on Montgomery Street.

Dr. Gage credits his success and perseverance throughout his career to his mother and the influence of his great-grandfather, Captain Bill Jones, who is the focus of his past and current work. And attributes a most happy life to his wife, Anita, known for her scholarly and civic contributions, notably campaigning for the Gage's Irish Setters and recording in 2018 a rare AKC double for Best in Show and Best in Show Owner-handled for Number One NOHS All Breeds.

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