Br. Kiaran Vincent

"Charles B", as he was called by his family, was born on June 17, 1934, one of five children to Catherine Mahfouz and Raymond Malham. He attended Brinkley Elementary and Brinkley High School before entering Christian Brothers College in 1952. He continued his studies in Memphis at Southwestern from 1952 to 1955 and at St. Mary's College from 1956 to 1958 where he received BA degree. His first teaching assignment took him in January 1958 to De La Salle High School in Chicago and in August of 1958 to Christian Brothers High School in St. Joseph, Missouri. In 1961 he was assigned to teach in the Juniorate at Glencoe and in 1964 he was assigned to teach there in the Novitiate.

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In 1966 he received his M.M. in music from Washington University. In 1968 he was assigned to CIL in Rome and year later to the Scholasticate in Memphis. From 1970 to 1988 he was assigned to teach at Christian Brothers University in Memphis, Tennessee, and it was during this time that he earned his Doctorate in music from Laval University in Quebec, Canada. In 1988 he was assigned to SIEL in Rome, Italy, and the following year returned to Lambert Hall at Christian Brothers University for a year before being elected Visitor of the St. Louis District. In 1996 he accepted an appointment as President of Bethlehem University but was called to the presidency at Christian Brothers University in Memphis in 2005. On the afternoon of May 2, 2008, he was tragically killed in an auto accident in Louisiana. At the time of his death, he was seventy-three years old and had been a De La Salle Christian Brother for fifty-three years.