President of University of Dallas to retire

Published: 2003-10-30

DALLAS (CNS) -- Msgr. Milam Joseph, president of the University of Dallas, has announced to the university's board of trustees that he will retire, effective May 31, 2004. He was named president of the university in January 1996 and became the first priest to lead the only Catholic university in north Texas. The university, opened in 1956 and based in Irving, has approximately 2,200 students. Msgr. Joseph, 66, was ordained to the priesthood in 1964, and served in parishes in Dallas and what is now the Diocese of Tyler. He also worked as chaplain and dean of men at the University of Dallas, a notary for the diocesan Tribunal, diocesan director of vocations, principal of Bishop T.K. Gorman High School in Tyler and pastor of Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Tyler.

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