[1] Norma Wynick was born in Pittsburgh on March 30, 1922, and moved with her family to Detroit as a teenager.
[1][2] She began her undergraduate studies at Wayne University (now Wayne State University) in 1939,[3] graduated in 1944 with both bachelor's and master's degrees, as well as a teaching certificate,[2] and in the same year married art historian Bernard Goldman.
[3] In 2003 she founded the Society of Active Retirees with the goal of encouraging retired people to return to the classroom.
[2] She died of a heart attack while battling cancer on October 1, 2011, in Fountain Hills, Arizona.
[1][2] Goldman was the author, co-author, or editor of:[1][3] She was also featured on the BBC television program Nova in 1995 for her attempts to re-create Roman concrete and the awning of the Colosseum, and in 1993 she produced a one-hour video on Roman costuming.