Warfield was sick and could not attend on the day Broome gave this lecture. Mr. Qu Duan, a Public Policy graduate assistant at John’s office, is the young man who introduced Ben for his talk.
Ben’s presentation was very good, and very interesting to the audience. His lecture was videotaped by GMU student video center, and the single tape cassette is in Box 67 of GMU Warfield Special Collection.The videotape was pretty good too, it seems that the student TV crew finally got their act together and produced something o.k. in spite of the poor lighting and difficult camera angles in that cavernous movie theater which was the only room John had been able to get for putting on his lecture series. John missed Ben’s talk, because of illness. We got copies of the video made and gave a copy to Ben.
Printouts of the transparencies used for Lecture 11 were misplaced in 1998. When Ben brought them to the IASIS office as John had requested, John was either sick or on the phone or something, so Ben gave them to me. And I put them away, not realizing they were supposed to go into Lecture Group 3, a set of reports on Johnson Center Lectures. When John finally found out about Ben’s papers, it was too late; the reports had already been sent to the printer, So Ben’s stuff is not in the booklet "George Mason University Johnson Center Lecture Series on Complexity, Lecture Group 3," as it should have been. (R.w. March 4, 2007))
But EUREKA, FOURTEEN YEARS LATER I found Ben's transparency printouts for his December 1998 lecture among old papers saved by the Warfields when moving to Florida, then Alabama then all by myself now, to Arkansas. Finally, in Fayetteville, Arkansas I can at last scan Ben's Lecture #11 Transparencies. … and if I ever get the chance will try to get these transparencies placed in the same folders with the other Complexity Lectures, in the Fenwick Library Box 36, Folder 11 (R.W. circa 2012)
Well I did indeed get Ben's printouts to where they belong, in my Sept 9, 2013 visit to GMU library Special Collections & Archives (SC&A). Actually did get one last trip to Virginia then, and saw the Library. I gave the packet of Ben’s documents personally to Yvonne Carignan, head of Special Collections department, to be placed in Box 36 Folder 11. (R. W. September 26, 2013)
OVERALL LIST OF THE 12 JOHNSON CENTER LECTURES: 1- Thought Leaders and Their Contributions. This lecture was not filmed; it is hoped to make a studio videotape later. 2 - Twenty Laws of Complexity This lecture was not filmed; it is hoped to make a studio videotape later. 3 - Applications in Industry & Government 4 - Implications for Higher Education, Part I: Undergraduate Education in the USA 5 - Seven Milestones in the History of Thought This lecture was not filmed; it is hoped to make a studio videotape later. 6 - The Mathematics of Structure 7 - Applications in Ghana, Liberia and Mexico 8 - Higher Education and the Thought Leaders 9 - The Legacy of Charles Sanders Peirce 10 - The Work Program of Complexity 11 - Applications of IM in Cyprus 12 - The Wandwaver Solution
NOTE: This like all the COMPLEXITY LECTURES was converted to mpg3 format on a CD-Rom, in 1999.The VHS video was converted into a movie file and fitted onto 2 CD-Roms, by Jose Antonio Maradiaga student technician at GMU Instructional Resource Center. The CD-Rom mpeg files have the filenames: complec11a.mpg and complec11b.mpg. The 2 files have been saved to hard disk on Rose's computer and are available for download.
