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kzucker

07-13-2005, 04:36 PM

Ichiro Koshida died of the heart attack on April 12, 2005. He was a professor at Tokyo University of Technology, and was a doctor of engineering.

Mr. Koshida played an active part in the first domestic game game to be put on the market in Japan as a game designer.

Koshida was an early backer of OSG, pre-ordering all the original offerings at the start of our pre-order process in August of 1998, and was also credited with playtesting on "Highway to the Kremlin." He found problems with the Siege rules, (originally a Russian besieged force would never surrender) and he helped to repair this problem.

Mr. Koshida also published two wargames through Ad Technos. He designed the game "A divided uncompleted Empire (Diadochoi War)" and "Battle of Ravenna".

Recently, he contributed to a game-related magazine and introduction and a review of a new game, published on the homepage of Wargame of KOS.

The achievements of Mr. Koshida's game work have a very high level, and they are certain to be collector's items in the future.

kzucker

07-15-2005, 09:26 PM

February 17th, 2003

From: Barbara Jenkins <bjenkins@carleton.edu>

Alas, the wargamer at my house has gone peacefully to his reward.
Please remove his name from your mailing list. BUT ADD HIS SONS, Hugh Jenkins and Paul Jenkins.

Owen Jenkins was a professor at Carelton University in Canada.

Owen Jenkins, the Helen F. Lewis Professor Emeritus of English, died on October 6. He was 74.

"Few in Carleton’s history have taught longer or better," says Constance Walker, professor of English. "For 48 years at the College, Owen demanded, inspired, and exemplified excellence. Even as he untangled his students’ prose, he enriched their lives, teaching not only the arts of rhetoric and fiction, but also the importance of honesty, rigor, courage, and generosity."

Jenkins left an impression on the nearly 5,000 students he taught over the years. "He was tyrannical and fierce and sarcastic, and I had no idea at the time how deeply he cared about who we could become," says novelist Jane Hamilton ’79.

Known for his wit and his love of Jane Austen, Jenkins also was capable of minting memorable quotes. Robert Brown ’91, a former student who kept a list of them during a class in the fall of his senior year, remembers Jenkins telling students:

"Every mistake you find in Jane Austen is proof that you have misread the novel." Jenkins earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English and history from the University of Chicago. He taught English at the Georgia Institute of Technology before attending Cornell University, where he earned a Ph.D. in only two years.

In 1954 he began teaching at Carleton, where he became a renowned teacher of 18th-century literature, literary criticism, and rhetoric. Respected for his precision and high standards, he often cited his philosophy for teaching writing: "You only write as well as you are expected to." He was named the first Helen F. Lewis Professor of English in 1992 and retired from full-time teaching in 1997.

Jenkins was a mentor and friend to many colleagues in the English department. When he became chair of the English faculty in the early 1970s, he introduced cucumber sandwiches and sherry to departmental meetings. Under his watch, the department’s coffeepot never went cold. He was rarely short on comments and critiques: "He had decided opinions about most things," recalls George Soule, English professor emeritus. "But he was also rather ironic, so it was sometimes hard to tell what those opinions really were."

Much of Jenkins’s scholarly activity was directed toward his teaching. For his course in literary criticism, he gathered numerous editions and critical commentaries of Aristotle’s Poetics, as well as an extensive bibliography of the history of criticism, both meticulously updated each time he taught the course. For his advanced writing classes, he created a scholarly commentary on Aristotle’s Rhetoric that he distributed to students and colleagues over many years. Reading and teaching the novels of Jane Austen was a special delight both for him and for the many generations of students who took his yearly seminar. For three decades, he diligently screened scholarly publications and ordered literary texts for Gould Library.

Jenkins spent the final five years of his life in the Northfield area, never straying far from Carleton’s campus. He is survived by his wife, Barbara; sons Paul, Hugh, and Clay; daughter, Carol; and three grandchildren. A memorial scholarship fund has been established by the College.