- GRAMBLING LEGENDS -
Ralph W.E. Jones, 78, Ex-Head of Grambling
UPI
Published: April 11, 1982
Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones, who served as president of Grambling University for 41 years, died Friday. He was 78 years old.
Officials said Dr. Jones died after being admitted at Lincoln General Hospital for gallstone surgery. He was president of Grambling, a predominantly black college of 4,000 students in Grambling, La., from 1936 until his retirement in 1977.
Dr. Jones, the grandson of a slave, was born in Lake Charles on Aug. 6, 1905. His father, John S. Jones, was the first dean of Southern University, where the former Grambling president received a bachelor's degree, and his mother was a school teacher in Lake Charles, La.
Dr. Jones went to Grambling in 1926, when it was the Lincoln Parish Training School, a two-year teachers' institute, He started out as an instructor in chemistry, physics and mathematics.
In his early years there, he started a baseball team, served as dean of men, formed a band and held the post of registrar. At the age of 30 he became the president of the school and continued to serve as baseball coach while heading the college.
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