Student (1921-26) Ralph Squires

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Ralph Squires attended UL in the early twenties as a student, athlete, and musician. He was also a member of the Drama Club then known as "Cajan Crew" serving as its secretary for the 1921-22 school year. Ralph Squires was also Student Body President in 1924-25.

Fresh out of UL and shortly before taking advantage of a Philharmonic Scholarship, the UL discovered musician performed a solo piano recital in New Orleans.

By the 1940's Ralph Squires achieved nationwide notoriety at Centenary College’s School of Music as head of the Centenary Music Department with many pianists today still crediting his teaching skills.

He went on to be known as Dr. Ralph Squires, Dean of the McNeese Department of Fine Arts. Today this University of Louisiana graduate has a Hall named in his honor on the McNeese State campus in the Sherman Fine Arts Center.

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The VERMILION
Thursday February 10, 1927
	The Minneapolis Symphony Brings Honor to S.L.I.
	With the presentation of Beethoven’s 'Ninth Symphony' by the Minneapolis Symphony under the direction of Henri Verbrugghen comes the announcement that Ralph Squires received the Philharmonic Scholarship following the suggestion of his instructor, Miss Corinne Meyers. Miss Meyers received a check for three thousand dollars and she was requested to give it to the student to whom she was most vitally interested. Out of thousands of students in New Orleans Ralph Squires was chosen. This news brings us the realization of something which we knew would come to pass because Ralph's four years at Southwestern were musical years. It was Mrs. Harvey P. Hopkins who first started Ralph on his career as pianist. That was in '21-'22 when the Musical department had scarcely emerged from its mystical state and Mrs. Harvey Hopkins was teaching Piano and Voice here for the first time. Both Ralph and the Department have gone many many leagues farther since then. Ralph was school accompanist and he was also president of the Student Body in '24-'25. He was a wearer of the 'S' emblem and he belonged to the Sigma Pi Alpha fraternity. Ralph is planning on going to Berlin next September where he will begin work under ?? There is no doubt that he will win more recognition in Europe. The Ninth Symphony, one of the greatest and most beautiful pieces of music ever written, is given on two or three times in a Century. New Orleans heard the Symphony for the first time. Beethoven's one hundredth and fiftieth anniversary is being celebrated this year.

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I was in the Ralph Squires auditorium a couple of weeks ago.

Unfortunately, I know nothing about him...

Ralph Squires attended UL in the early twenties as a student, athlete, and musician. He was also a member of the Drama Club then known as "Cajan Crew" serving as its secretary for the 1921-22 school year. Ralph Squires was also Student Body President in 1924-25.

Fresh out of UL and shortly before taking advantage of a Philharmonic Scholarship, the UL discovered musician performed a solo piano recital in New Orleans.

By the 1940's Ralph Squires achieved nationwide notoriety at Centenary College’s School of Music as head of the Centenary Music Department with many pianists today still crediting his teaching skills.

He went on to be known as Dr. Ralph Squires, Dean of the McNeese Department of Fine Arts. Today this University of Louisiana graduate has a Hall named in his honor on the McNeese State campus in the Sherman Fine Arts Center.