As of May 2012, there are two hard copies of the offprint in the little wood cabinet in Rose's apartment, along with other hard copy items of Warfield's published works. Filename pap104 contains the 31-page WordPerfect manuscript which was sent to the editor Jan 2, 1999. ANNOTATION: The Integrative Studies movement is critiqued with respect to its linguistic and intellectual focus, which Warfield believes to be rather fuzzy. He suggests remedies in a section "Basic Propositions for Change in Academia" and states "The most essential product of integrative studies should be a structured (qualitative) system model." After hearing Warfield's talk at the 10 October 1996 meeting of A.I.S., Ray Miller, one of the editorial board members, asked Warfield to submit a paper to the A.I.S. journal. Warfield completed the manuscript 24 April 1997. He sent copies to Ray, and also to the journal editor Stan Bailis of San Francisco State University. This paper is one of the group of seven manuscripts which Warfield has included in his IASIS monograph titled "1997 Essays on Complexity (Mid-Year Edition)" which he assembled and printed in June 1997. It has been submitted April 1997 to Issues in Integrative Studies, J. of Association for Integrative Studies, it was verbally accepted by the editor and will be published, but as of October 1998 there is still no clear word as to when, nor any indication about rewrites or anything. We assume it will be published in some form, some time. Warfield talked to the editor at the 1998 meeting of AIS and was told the publication was planned.

POSTSCRIPT: Finally, on 29 October 1998, Warfield sent an email to the editor, stating that he was withdrawing the manuscript. Editor Bailis responded soon after with request for editing changes. Because Warfield was snowed under trying to write his book and also get ready for another workshop, Rose Warfield did the editing task, all through December 1998 when she would much rather have been doing things to get ready for Christmas. The editing was a HORRIBLE job, partly because Warfield never wrote in the ALA style, also because the A.L.A. style manual which Bailis had sent long ago was nowhere to be found in the cluttered office (I think Rose threw it out, really) and also there weren't even any old copies of AIS journal to refer to, they had all been packed or lost, or something. So it meant far too many trips, trudging over the ice on cold, cold December days to Fenwick Library to look up what was needed in the ALA reference manuals in the reserve room. There was only one style manual available for checkout, but it was not available because some other faculty member had it and was keeping it. So Rose had to use the Reserve Book Room copy, and make photocopies of the pages needed to rewrite the sections, chapter headings, paragraph forms, and figures and all that junk. Rose finally finished the manuscript in form suitable for the publisher, about a week after Christmas. At this time Warfield decided to name Rose as co-author, since it was she who did the entire editing job. Rose at first SAID NO, but finally consented when Warfield pointed out that the work she had done on the manuscript was no less than any graduate student would have done, and the graduate student would have received the co-author spot, as a credit for his work. So since Rose knew this to be PERFECTLY true, and especially since Warfield said he wouldn't publish the damn thing at all if she weren't included as co-author, we packed it up and mailed it express mail on 2 Jan 1999, with Rose on the title page as co-author. Then comes another long wait, with not even any word from the editor or anyone else that they had received the manuscript. It was a whole year longer before we heard anything about it, in January, 2000 after giving up all expectation of ever seeing anything published in AIS journal, we were vastly surprised to learn by email while we were in Mexico, that the article had been TYPESET! And sent to Warfield's GMU office for proof-reading, with a deadline of 15 Jan for him to return the proofs. The proof-reading deadline had already passed by the time we got the email in Mexico. Warfield notified the publisher to go ahead and print. (Bill Newell of AIS SEEMS to be the operative agent for mailing and receiving the proofs, so Warfield sent him an email, told him he was happy to have the publication done, without proofing.) The published manuscript is not the same as the 1997 unpublished version used as Warfield's conference paper. It had been cleaned up considerably and reorganized by Rose Warfield, in order to meet journal style and format requirements and to respond to criticisms on clarity put forth by Bailis. So, about 3 years after submission to the editor this paper is finally a published article. (r.w. circa 2000, updated May 2012)