Michael B. Gage, a 1995 Murray State University alumnus, has been appointed President and Chief Operating Officer of Kirkbride Bible Co., effective Sept. 1, 2007. In this capacity Michael will continue to serve the company as production and purchasing manager, as well as the company graphic arts designer. Michael will be responsible for managing all of Kirkbride’s business operations.

J. Marshall Gage has stepped down as President and turned over the day to day operations of the company to his son, Michael Gage . The elder Gage served as President for the past nineteen years and will continue in the position of Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board.

Michael has been with Kirkbride for the past 12 years working in graphic arts with marketing, as production manager, and for the past two and a half years as Executive Vice President. He is the third generation of the Gage family to be in the position of President and takes the reins just in time to begin the Centennial Anniversary of the Thompson ® Chain-Reference ® Bible KJV edition, first published in 1908.

Released in a Kirkland Bible Company announcement, Gage says, “I am honored and pleased to continue the family legacy and tradition as being appointed a 3 rd generation Gage to be President of Kirkbride Bible Co. Kirkbride has established itself in the Christian marketplace as the publisher of one of the best reference Bibles available – the Thompson ® Chain-Reference ® Bible . Our goal is to continue to publish and distribute through our partners a quality smyth-sewn, one-volume resource Bible to enhance Bible study for Christians everywhere.”

Gage lives in Indianapolis , where he and his wife, the former Trisha Crider, a 1994 MSU graduate, are co-presidents of the MSU alumni chapter in Indianapolis.