50th Reunion

41 Winfield FIrman
Summing up fifty years of living since leaving Amherst required some soul searching. Julie and I were married the week before graduation and our first child, Frances, was born 18 months later (she chose Mount Holyoke as her college). I went into the service with Julie expecting another baby. Tom, Amherst '66, was born in June of '45 while I was in the Pacific in charge of a bomb disposal squad. I returned home to a family and all the responsibilities that involved. The important part of my life has always been my family and our activities. My business life until I took early retirement from Sears was satisfactory but certainly not earthshaking. Dorothy was born in 1949, lives in Amherst, and is now getting her doctorate at UMass.
I served as a senior warden in the church, was president of the Port Washington School Board, acted in little theater, spent three years as a scout ­master, and coached little league baseball winding up as league president. So I covered the range of volunteer activities and genuinely enjoyed these things, often more than my professional work.

I received an M.A. in Psychology, and when I left Sears after 28 years, I set up my own modestly successful consulting firm and presented seminars around the country. Later a client firm drafted me to head their group outplacement programs. Retired, I am still connected with the firm and occasionally go somewhere in the country to do out­ placement for large groups.

Winfield Firman
I think the last six years have been the best ever. We have eight grandchildren ranging in age from six months to 21 years. Our kids come to see us here on the Landings in Savannah; we golf, swim, boat and they play tennis. We travel and have undertaken two great assignments for the international Executive Service Corp - three months in Brazil in '83and three months in Indonesia in '88. I have served in many volunteer assignments here, and have just stepped down from the presidency of the Landings Association which is akin to mayor of a town of 6,000.

Julie and our youngest, Dorothy, both psychotherapists, wrote a book published in '89 and then re· printed in paper back in '90 Daughters and Mother-Healing the Relationship will not make us rich but has brought us all lots of satisfaction.
We're looking forward to June of '90 when we will celebrate 50 years of marriage and my 50th Amherst reunion.