by Provost Peggy Agouris | December 16, 2020
William & Mary Provost Peggy Agouris sent the following message to the campus community on Dec. 15, 2020. - Ed.
Dear Colleagues,
I write to share the news that William Lee Bynum, Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus, died on November 22, 2020, at Patriots Colony Convalescent Center from complications of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. He was born June 28, 1936 in Carlsbad, New Mexico to Charles William Wesley Bynum and Jeffie Lee Bynum. He is survived by his widow Mary Ann Bynum and sisters, Mollie Beth Bynum of Anchorage Alaska and Sallie Belle Bynum of Irving, Texas.
Bill Bynum joined the faculty of William & Mary as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics in 1969. He had received his B.S. from the Texas Technological College in Mechanical Engineering and his M.S. and Ph D. degrees in Mathematics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His conversion to pure ma