ABSTRACT
At the end of 1959, E. L. Trist learned that he was about to be invited to attend the Center for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences at Palo Alto, and in January 1960, it was agreed he would accept the offer. The Center provided $10,000 and the Institute Management and Research and Training Committees voted him contributions from the Institute’s Development Fund. In April, Trist returned to resolve the issue. On April 27 and 28, as the present chairman of the Institute’s Management Committee, Trist took its recent previous meetings to task. On the night before the decision to split the Institute, at Pierre Turquet’s request, H. Bridger arranged that Isabel Menzies and Trist would meet for dinner. F. E. Emery remembered the day Bridger picked up Trist at the airport and immediately took him to the April meetings. In the car, he gave Trist his views, and to Emery it all became frustrating.
