Sent to GMU 27 September 2007. Gabus had sent an email to tell Warfield that Fontela, an old friend from the Battelle years, had died. Fontela and Gabus worked at Battelle Geneva, in Switzerland, and together used Warfield's ISM at Battelle. It was discouraging to Warfield to learn from this email message that after all these years the use and understanding of Warfield's work had not spread any further, even by way of people who knew him well and had worked with him. Warfield learned this because Gabus had included with his email a paper co-authored by Fontela in which ISM was still considered "theoretical" as a research topic. And not only that, Warfield saw that the co-authors were Mexican, from ITESM campus in Mexico City. At Monterrey, ITESM's main campus, Roxana Cardenas had been teaching and using ISM for years. It was even more discouraging for Warfield to discover after reading the Fontela paper that there was no mention of Warfield's use of all-important matrices and graphics, even though Gabus and Fontela had used these methods right from the start while working with Warfield at Battelle. Instead, the paper written by Fontela and the Mexican students presented "Interpretive Structural Modeling" as purely algebraical, and in so doing misrepresented Warfield's work. It was another sad day, as Warfield realized that a widespread recognition of Interactive Management and the use of ISM is still far away. The paper which Gabus sent is titled: "Using Interpretive Structural Modeling in Strategic Decision-making Groups" by Bolanos, Fontela, Nenclares and Pastor. It was not published, as yet. It is 17 pages, I am enclosing a copy in this folder.