New Postmaster Will Leave in Fall, Become Professor

WASHINGTON — Albert V. Casey, named postmaster general only last week, will leave next fall to become a business professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, a Postal Service spokesman said today.

“He’s indicated that that’s the way he wanted to top off his business career--as a teacher somewhere,” spokesman Jamison Caine said.

Casey, 65 and a retired airline executive, hinted when he was named to succeed fired Postmaster General Paul N. Carlin that his stay in the post may be short.

Asked then how long he would stay, Casey replied: “The primary goal of any chief executive is to arrange for his successor. . . . If I’m really good, six months; if I’m poor, nine months.”

However, Caine said today that Casey would not be a caretaker. “He just got here last week. I’m sure he intends to leave his mark here,” Caine said.