Dr. Tom Gage, Professor Emeritus in English at Humboldt State University, earned all his degrees at the University of California, Berkeley. As teacher, dean and consultant, his career includes working at the elementary, secondary, and tertiary levels in both private and public education. For four decades he has been a member of the Curriculum Study Commission, a professional education organization, responsible for conducting the more than half-century old Asilomar English Conference near Carmel, California. A founding member of the Consultants in Global Programs, he has lectured widely, including Turkey, Greece, and China, where he was resident lecturer on comparative education. He is the principal architect of a Masters degree in the Teaching of Writing in the English department at Humboldt. He founded the Redwood Writing Project, one of the pilot sites of what became the US federally funded National Writing Project. He is a recipient of awards for dedication to international programs from his university, for excellence in classroom teaching from the California Association of Teachers of English, and of a Fulbright in American Studies at the University of Aleppo, Syria. In the last three years, Gage has delivered papers dealing with the subject of his topic on four continents.