Brother Vincent Malham, FSC, former President and Vice Chancellor of Bethlehem University in the Holy Land (1997-2005) and current President of Christian Brothers University in Memphis, Tennessee, died Friday, 2 May 2008 in a car accident in Louisiana. According to the Police, Brother Vincent was travelling on a road near Clayton, Louisiana, when the car he was driving crossed the centre lane and collided head-on with another vehicle. The driver and passenger in the other vehicle were not seriously injured.

The Brothers and University community in Memphis will gather on Sunday 11 May at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Memphis to pray for Brother Malham’s rest. The funeral will be celebrated at the Cathedral the following day.
 When the news of the tragic death of Brother Vincent reached Bethlehem, the Brothers, members of the Board of Trustees and faculty, staff and students of Bethlehem University gathered in the Chapel of the Divine Child to pray for Brother Vincent. A more formal Mass for Brother Vincent will be celebrated at Bethlehem University in the coming week and will be announced on the University's website: http://www.bethlehem.edu/
Brother Neil Kieffe, who worked at Bethlehem University with Brother Malham for nine years, spoke before the Saturday Mass and said: “I happened to be the one who answered the telephone call this morning when Brother Francis Carr, the Provincial of the Midwest Province of the Christian Brothers, called to let us know of Brother Vincent's death.  I was shocked, as I know you all were, to receive this very sad news. 
We remember Brother Vincent as being so full of life and energy.  As we walk this campus we see his mark everywhere - in the flowers he had planted, in the buildings he planned and had built or renovated, in the roads and plazas that he planned, in the students he loved and served, in the faculty and staff that he worked with to make this University a great institution”.