The GMU Finding Aid for Warfield Collection lists this article as "SYSTEMS MOVEMENT: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL, 2003." So that is the wording I will follow for the home records to make it easier to match records with GMU and make sure they have everything. Actually, Warfield's title for this paper is "Discovering Systems Science," while “Systems Movement: Autobiographical Retrospectives” is the SERIES TITLE used by journal editor George Klir for his collection of papers from several authors, to form a series for his journal. 

RECORDS AND DATES CONNECTED WITH MANUSCRIPT DEVELOPMENT & ACCEPTANCE In early part of the year 2003 George Klir, editor of International Journal of General Systems asked Warfield to contribute an autobiographical type article similar to the SYSTEMS PROFILE articles which Warfield had sponsored when he himself was editor of Systems Research. Warfield decided to write the article not only about his own work, but of the influences of all the Systems personalities which he considered most influential and admirable in his own life. He also decided to include PHOTOGRAPHS of all of them, since for a number of years he had been collecting internet photos of many colleagues. He selected the colleagues and the photos, wrote about all of them in his article, and shipped the paper off to Klir on 18 July 2003, via e-mail attachment. After emailing the article to Klir, Warfield remembered a few more details which he thought belonged in the document, so he made some small changes and additions, with the date of the final version sent to the publisher 19 July 2003. as a 43 page manuscript plus 15 figures and 1 Table. The figures and photos and the Table were sent as extra attachments to the emailed manuscript: 1) a Microsoft PowerPoint file titled KLIRCOMPOSITEFIGURES and 2) a WordPerfect table in a file titled COMPLEXICON MANAGINGTHEUNMANAGEABLE (List of slides). He had to send two E-MAIL messages. AOL did not permit two attachments on one message unless it condensed them and Warfield didn't want the text or the photos to undergo compression.

One group of photos represents a tribute to early systems colleagues with whom Warfield had dealings when first starting his work. A second group includes men and women from a later era, who were connected in some way with Warfield's own goal of spreading the practice of Interactive Management and its associated behavioral ideas as a method of resolving complexity issues in management of large organizations. Because of the added photographs, there was some doubt that George Klir and the journal publishers would accept and print the document, but Warfield declared that he didn't care, saying if Klir wouldn't have the paper he would send it somewhere else, possibly to Systems Research. Klir's response, some days later, was to accept the article, but to reject the photographs and the COMPLEXICON table (list of slides), and to keep and publish the black & white PowerPoint graphics, which were Figs 12-15 of Warfield's original manuscript. As for the photos which Warfield wanted to publish, a compromise was struck whereby all the photos would be made available on the web, and the web address would be published in the International Journal of General Systems alongside the article. Warfield got the GMU School of Public Policy to donate website space and in the meantime George Klir decided to open his journal website also, now the photos are on two websites.

In addition, the COMPLEXICON TABLE was put on display with the photographs, as Exhibit 12 in the internet document. The COMPLEXICON table (whereby Warfield hoped to tie all his previous work together into a simplified whole) had been an integral part of his original manuscript. Some of the internet photos are of poor quality, but Warfield said that didn't matter so much, that the important thing was to give these often unrecognized names the significance they deserved. To view these please go to: https://schar.gmu.edu/about/faculty-directory/in-memoriam/john-warfield-exhibits/ and https://schar.gmu.edu/sites/default/files/research/In-Memorium/Warfield_Exhibit_12.pdf

Here is the list of persons now on those 2 web sites whose photos Warfield sent on 18 July 2003 by e-mail to George Klir - all on PowerPoint slides: Fig. 1, persons well known in the Systems Movement. Ackoff, Ashby, B. H. Banathy, Bertalanffy, Boulding, Checkland, Churchman, Forrester, Francois, Hall, Klir, Rapoport ; Fig 2, some thought leaders on second order thought. Aristotle, Euclid, Gottfried Leibniz, Alexander Pope, Augustus De Morgan, George Boole, Arthur Cayley, Willard Gibbs, C. S. Peirce, David Hilbert, I. M. Bochenski, Frank Harary. (1st of 2 pages of these, chronological order of listing); Fig 3, thought leaders on second order thought. Immanuel Kant, Gottlob Frege, W. Ross Ashby, Michel Foucault, George J. Friedman; Fig 4, some action leaders in interactive management. Henry Alberts, Moses Ayiku, Surinder Batra, Owen Berkeley-Hill, Benjamin Broome, Graciela Caffarel, Roxana Cardenas, G. S. Chandy, Aleco Christakis. 1st of 3 pages of these, in alphabetical order of listing); Fig 5, some action leaders in interactive management. Diane Conaway, Phil Ernzen, Carlos Flores (Alocer), Raymond Fitz, Tom Gulledge, Ladonna Harris, Koichi Haruna, Bob House, Ross Janes; Fig 6, some action leaders in interactive management. Carol Jeffrey, Kazuhiko Kawamura, Daniel Ma, Larry Magliocca, Bob McDonald, Carmen Moreno, Vivek Patkar, Tony Perino, Bill Rodger; Fig 7, some thought leaders in Interactive Management. Jorge Rodriguez, Ricardo Rodriguez, Roy Smith, Scott Staley, Mary Temblador, Reynaldo Trevino (Cisneros), Robert James Waller; Fig 8, thought leaders on individual behavioral pathologies. Robert F. Bales, Ken Boulding, Michel Foucault, George A. Miller, Herbert A. Simon, Geoffrey Vickers; Fig 9, thought leaders on group behavioral pathologies. Graham Allison, Andre Delbecq, Michel Foucault, Friedrich Hayek, Irving Janis, Iannis Kapelouzos, Harold Lasswell (no photo available), Bruce Tuckman, A. H. Van de Ven; Fig 10, Thought leaders on organizational behavior pathologies. Chris Argyris, Ken Boulding, Anthony Downs, Lasswell (no photo available), Kurt Lewin, James G. March, Herbert A. Simon; Fig 11, thought leaders on language. Antoine Lavoisier, George Boole, Arthur Cayley, C. S. Peirce, Georg Cantor, David Hilbert, Bertrand Russell, Klaus Krippendorf.

Other figures and tables in Warfield's original manuscript : Fig 12, the Alberts Pattern (became Fig. 1 in the published version); Fig 13, the Cardenas-Rivas Patterns (became Fig 2 in the published version); Fig 14, Inclusion Structure for Systems Science (became Figure 3 in the published version); Fig 15, Organizing the Complexicon (became Figure 4 in the published version), this PowerPoint figure includes a large paragraph as the "NOTE" for the slide; Fig 15 has been printed twice, first as a full page graphic with a simple 3-line caption, and second as a smaller figure, with caption and NOTE, all fitted onto one page. Warfield is in negotiation with Klir as to how to produce this particular figure in a format that would be acceptable to the publisher for fitting on the journal page.) Table 1, (the list in filename Complexicon ManagingtheUnmanageable) was not published in hard copy, but became one of the internet exhibits on the web page space supplied to Warfield. Three years after its appearance in the International Journal of General Systems, Warfield's entire article was reprinted, published as Appendix 3 of his 2006 book An Introduction to Systems Science. (but a printing error resulted in the Complexicon figure (Fig. 4) being incorrect)

A COMPANION PAPER: "Autobiographical Retrospectives Discovering Systems Science" was written in the same time period as another autobiographical article titled "Systems Profile: 1925 to Now" which appeared in Systems Research. The two articles have different content, and were intended as companion pieces.

(R.W. circa 2006, updated 2008, 2013, and March 25, 2017) 

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