<font color='black' size='2' face='arial'><font size="2" style="color: black; font-family: arial;">On several Facebook groups, his passing was confirmed.</font> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><font size="2"><br> </font></div> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><font size="2">Definitely a landmark game designer. We'll probably make an in-memorium note where appropriate?</font></div> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><font size="2"><br> </font></div> <div><font size="2"><font face="arial">Eric A. and I both grew up as SL/ASL fanatics…</font></font></div> <div><font size="2"><font face="arial"><br> </font></font></div> <div><font size="2"><font face="arial">As someone made mention online, "Rest in Peace, Lt. Hill," accompanied by a photo of the Squad Leader 9-1 leader marker bearing his name.</font></font></div> <div><font size="2"><font face="arial"><br> </font></font></div> <div><font size="2"><font face="arial">Eric<br> </font></font><br> <br> <div style="color: black; font-family: helvetica, arial; font-size: 10pt;">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Tim <tim@stugiii.com><br> To: deptheads <deptheads@strategicon.net><br> Sent: Tue, Jan 13, 2015 8:28 am<br> Subject: [Deptheads] John Hill<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_2_5cfa879b-da48-470b-b25b-b1898ff186c0"> <div class="aolReplacedBody" lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"> <div class="WordSection1"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:">I just heard from a friend that John Hill suffered a major heart attack a few days ago and is on life support. The prognosis is not good.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"> </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:">John was the champion of “design for effect” games. My favorites were Squad Leader and Johnny Reb.</span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="AOLMsgPart_3_5cfa879b-da48-470b-b25b-b1898ff186c0" style="margin: 0px;font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;font-size: 12px;color: #000;background-color: #fff;"> <pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>_______________________________________________ Deptheads mailing list <a href="mailto:Deptheads@strategicon.net">Deptheads@strategicon.net</a> <a href="https://strategicon.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/deptheads" target="_blank">https://strategicon.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/deptheads</a> </tt></pre> </div>  </div> </div> </font>