 In 1983, under the leadership of Elder Bud Otis, the organization moved to a new, $14 million facility in Hagerstown, Maryland on a campus; at that time the publishing house had 350 employees and an annual payroll of $6.7 million.Edson White established the Gospel Herald Publishing Company in Nashville, Tennessee, which was renamed to Southern Publishing Association in 1901.It merged with the Review and Herald in 1980.