We had two copies, and one copy of this "Gold Book" report was shipped to Fenwick Library Special Collections, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA on October 23, 2000.The report is not in Warfield's resume.
This is a gold-colored pamphlet, a thin paper-backed internal corporate office report issued by Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI). The report was nicknamed "The Gold Book" at Battelle. The nickname was given to it by W.K.”Bill” Linvill, who spent several months working at Battelle Columbus Labs while on sabbatical from his position at Stanford University as Head of the doctoral program in Engineering-Economic Systems.
Dr. Russell Dayton was a vice president at Battelle Memorial Institute and supervisor of the Science and Human Affairs Program, which was a new Battelle program and aimed at societal problem solving. Warfield was recruited to work on the project in the Columbus, Ohio offices. Warfield, under Dayton's guidance, wrote most of this booklet, as an in-house description of the goals of the new project. Soon after this was written, or perhaps during the course of its being written, Warfield consulted Ohio State librarians for books or articles on the subject of Complexity and discovered that there were only two in existence, both papers by Dr. John Kemeny.
Warfield's book titled An Assault on Complexity was a follow-up of “The Gold Book.” Five years later Warfield's book Societal Systems: Planning, Policy and Complexity was dedicated to Russ Dayton.
NOTE; We had two copies of this booklet, one was sent to Warfield Collection in George Mason University Libraries, while we kept one copy at home. I found and scanned our home copy in 2012, and discovered two pages holding Figures 1 AND 2 had been removed, cut out with scissors, The figures were on page 6 (Figure 1, Forrester World Dynamic Model ) and on page 10 (Figure 2, Interaction Matrix for the Appalachian Region).
Warfield undoubtedly needed the figures for another report or presentation. This was before the days of the computer, it was seemly to go ahead and cut a needed illustration from one of the extra Gold Books, rather than have to redraw it.
R.w. May 14, 2012
