PAUL WINDELS

WINDELS--Paul III.

Passed away suddenly on Sunday, June 4. He was on his way to ring bells at the graduation ceremony for the Kent School in Kent, CT, when he suffered a heart attack. Paul served as a Director of the United Nations Development Corporation from 1997 until 2006 as one of eight members of the fifteen member Board appointed by Governor Pataki. Between 2010 and 2013, Paul served on the Westchester County Charter Revision Commission as one of six members appointed by County Executive Astorino. Professionally, Paul practiced law in New York since 1983. He was associated with Brown & Wood in New York City from 1982 until 1989, a partner at Perry & Windels from 1989 through 2005, and a solo practitioner since 2006. He attended St. Bernard's School in New York City and Groton School in Groton, MA. He received his B.A. from Yale, where he majored in Ancient Greek, in 1979, and received his J.D. from Columbia in 1982. Paul was a founder and president of the Civil War Forum of Metropolitan New York, and a keen student of Civil War history. His other hobbies were English change-ringing, which he practiced in towers in North America and England, and sailing, which he practiced in his family's boat in Maine, Aquila. His parents were Paul Windels Jr. and Patricia Ripley Windels of New York. He is survived by his wife, Catherine, his children, Mary Catherine and Paul Jr., his brothers James and Patrick Windels, and his sister Mary Windels, as well as three nephews and many cousins. To honor Paul's memory, the family asks that you consider donating to two charities that were close to Paul's heart. The first is the Civil War Forum of Metropolitan New York, which he helped found, and which will use gifts to advance Civil War education. Donations can be sent in the form of checks made out to the CWFMNY, c/o Howard Rosenthal, 161-19 Horace Harding Expressway, Flushing, NY 11365. The second is the Civil War Trust, which preserves significant Civil War battlefields. Donations can be sent to Civil War Trust, P.O. Box 17686, Baltimore, MD 21297-1686, or through their website, https://www.civilwar.org/ Please make sure to indicate that gifts are specifically in honor of Paul Windels.