1. William
Cauffiel
Lickle
A
Biography
July,
2011
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
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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

3. 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;
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of
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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.
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