Bill will continue to hold a very special place in all of our heart, just as he has done for those who have known him much longer than I have, and long before he and his wonderful wife, Marcella ventured to embark on a new chapter in life: motivated by the absence of statutory services, Marcella became the instrumental force in the creation of the UK’s to date only Charitable Foundation dedicated to the ’more able‘ person with Autistic Spectrum Conditions. I have been privileged to witness Bill‘s boundless generosity and active personal investment in supporting Marcella, and us, the AEA Charitable Foundation Trustees with his kindness, self-effacing style, humour and most beautiful smile, twinkle and generous, always thoughtfully supportive advice. Marcella was able to equally unassumingly return this love and respect during Bill‘s more recent years when not always as well as he had always been during his extraordinary professional and personal life. Art was never far from his heart and mind, again showing a gift that would have / should have been allowed to flourish more since his retirement. Marcella remained equally modest about the times of her support; like many many others, I will am missing Bill. We hope to find a small way in which to honour his memory into the future in a small manner and by which we hope so many individuals will be comforted by and as a means of celebrating Bill. Never would Bill have expected let alone ’relished‘ such a lasting tribute, however small, but it is the joy and Bill‘s ’sunray‘ like smiles which he would have wanted all of us, including his wonderful family, wife and their son to keep feeling amongst the experience of loss and a void and and hold and treasure within ourselves for the future. Thank you for having been around and continuing to work that magic, Bill. Ekkehart