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William Cauffiel Lickle William Cauffiel Lickle was born on August 2, 1929, in Wilmington, Delaware to the late Charles and Hazel Cauffiel Lickle. Mr. Lickle's family home and its acreage later became Cauffiel Park, later part of Bellevue Park. Mr. Lickle prepped at The Hill School in Pottstown, Pa. and the Tower Hill School in Wilmington, and earned both bachelor's and law degrees at the University of Virginia. While at U.Va., he joined the Kappa Alpha and Phi Alpha Delta fraternities. He was accorded membership in several honor societies, including Omicron Delta Kappa, a national collegiate leadership organization, the Raven, Skull and Keys, and Intermediate Honors. He was also a member of the Lawn and Rotunda Societies. The retired former chairman of Laird Bissell & Meeds (NYSE), the Delaware Trust Company, and J.P. Morgan International Holdings Corporation, Mr. Lickle was also an advisor to Republican leaders, a contributor to many medical, civic, and social institutions and causes, a leading steeplechase owner, an inveterate traveler, and a man of many hobbies and broad interests. Before graduation from law school in 1953, Mr. Lickle became a member of the Virginia and American Bar Associations. In 1957, after a brief stint working in the then relatively new field of mergers and acquisitions, he joined Laird Bissell & Meeds of Wilmington as a stockbroker, and eventually became CEO. After merging LBM with Dean Witter in 1973, he became a director and senior vice president at Witter. In 1977 he joined Delaware Trust Company as vice-chairman, and soon became chairman and CEO. In 1988:Delaware Trust was merged with Meridian Bancorp. In 1989 he was named chairman otJ.P. Morgan International Holdings, a position that also included heading up Morgan Florida. After retiring from Morgan in 1993, Mr. Lickle followed his love of books and learning to become a publisher of high-end coffee table and children's books with his own firm, Lickle Publishing. In 2006 he sold the firm to Charlesbridge Publishing of Boston, for whom he became a consulting editor. Mr. Lickle's literary efforts during this time included The Supreme Court, an award-winning pictorial book on the nation's highest court; Brandywine: A Legacy of Tradition in Du Pont &Wyeth Country; and two series of children's books, Come Look With Me, about art and Come Learn With Me, which focused on science. He was also publisher of the famous American Indian book The Ledger Book of Thomas Blue Eagle. Mr. Lickle has been an adviser to or director of many organizations, including Marvin Palmer Associates, Inc. (Global Investment Advisors) of Wilmington, Del.; J.P. Morgan Holdings and Christiana Care, both of Wilmington, Del.; Bessemer Trust Company, and the Registrar & Transfer Co. (Chairman), both of New York, N.Y.; and General Recreation Corporation of Ithaca, N.Y. Beyond his immediate professional career, Mr. Lickle has an extensive record of over 50 years of leadership in business and civic affairs and the arts. A founder of the Delaware Better Business Bureau, the Delaware Community Foundation, and the Delaware Cancer Network, he has also been a director of the United Community Fund of Delaware; the Delaware Chamber of Commerce; Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Delaware, where he was also treasurer; the Delaware Roundtable; the Boys Club of Wilmington, Delaware; the Delaware Museum of Natural History; the Palm Beach Civic Association, and Planned Parenthood of Palm Beach County. In the arts, Mr. Lickle has served in leadership capacities with the Raymond F. Kravis Center for Performing Arts and the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, Fla., and the Brandywine River Museum, the Grand Opera House, the Delaware Museum of Natural History, and the prestigious Winterthur Museum and Gardens, all in Wilmington, Del. Also an art collector, he gave his extensive private collection of pre-Columbian art to the University of Delaware, where it remains on permanent display. Also on a voluntary basis, as treasurer and chairman of the Finance Committee Mr. Lickle helped arrange the largest medical merger in Delaware state history when three 100-bed hospitals were merged to create the 1000-bed private facility Christiana Care. Subsequently, Mr. Lickle as a director, helped Christiana to become a teaching hospital by affiliating it with the Thomas Jefferson University Medical School in Philadelphia, on whose board he served for seven years. Very active in higher education, Mr. Lickle has been particularly dedicated to his alma mater, the University of Virginia, where he served as president of the Board of Managers of the Alumni Association and a vice-chairman of the Alumni Association's Jefferson Scholar's Program, where he endowed the William C. Lickle Scholarship. He also served as a trustee of the Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, Conn. Mr. Lickle began his lifelong activism in the Republican Party as a member of the Citizens for Eisenhower in Delaware in the 1950s. He was subsequently active on the Goldwater, Nixon, and Reagan campaigns in Delaware, and served as a treasurer and member of the executive committee of the Delaware Republican Party. In 1988, Mr. Lickle was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the President's Export Council. A history buff and member of the Society okolonial Wars, the Sons of the American Revolution, and the Magna Carta Barons, Mr. Lickle is a director of the Bath and Tennis Club, where he served as treasurer and vice president, and a director of the Everglades Club, also of Palm Beach; In Wilmington he has been a member of the Wilmington Country Club, the Wilmington Club, and the Vicmead Hunt Club, where he also served as a director. He also enjoyed membership at the Seminole Golf Club in Palm Beach, Fla., and at the Lyford Cay Club in Nassau. Mr. Lickle considers steeplechasing and flat racing as perhaps the first of his many passions. An advisory board member of the National Steeplechase Museum in Camden, S.C. and a former steward of the National Steeplechase Association, Mr. Lickle was three times named Owner of the Year by the National Steeplechase Association, and his racing silks are on display in the Hall of Fame of the National Museum of Racing in Saratoga. In 1996, he won the Eclipse Award with steeplechaser Corregio. He also owned the famous Victorian Hill, who retired as the all-time leading steeplechase money winner in 1996. Mr. Lickle was a successful thoroughbred owner and breeder, partnering with well-known breeder Seth Hancock in Cherry Valley Farms in Paris, Kentucky. Their horse Sintra won the inaugural running of the Queen Elizabeth Cup, presented to Mr. Lickle by the Queen herself. Mr. Lickle was an early director and treasurer of the Breeder's Cup, the prestigious international annual racing event for the all categories of thoroughbreds; vice president of the Reading Room in Saratoga, N.Y.; a founder and director of Thoroughbred Racing Communications; chairman of the Board of Managers of the Fair Hill Races in Fair Hill, Md.; and a director of the Turf Club at Delaware Park in Wilmington, Delaware. He was also a member of the Coaching Club of America. Despite his many business and volunteer commitments, Mr. Lickle has always pursued a variety of hobbies. He was an accomplished pilot and an enthusiastic golfer who was a member of the intramural championship golf team at the University of Virginia. As a big-game fisherman, he participated annually during the 1950s and 1960s in the International Tuna Tournament in Cat Cay, Bahamas, and was chosen in 1960 to represent the U.S. against Mexico in an international fishing competition. "Willie" Lickle is known by his many friends across the world as the life of the party, a man of seemingly endless adventures and travels, and a storyteller par excellence. His many astounding tales tend to revolve around the twin themes catastrophe and humor. Seemingly a magnet for disaster, Mr. Lickle has always had a strange knack for finding himself in the middle of and continually emerging unscathed from — extraordinary events — foreign revolutions, plane crashes, or unfolding crimes — which often find their way into the next day's headlines. Many note that it is often Mr. Lickle's poise and calm which prevails in these sometimes dangerous situations. He has an equal ability to wander into hysterically funny circumstances, or sometimes to simply recount every day events with a mirth that has entertained family and friends for decades. Indeed it is the sheer volume, drama and hilarity of his yarns that led his inner circle and family to persuade him, in 2006, to collect his stories in a book, which he called The Lickle File.