Bernice Ruth Lapp (September 11, 1917 – September 8, 2010), also known by her married name Bernice Squier, was an American competition swimmer who competed for Newark Women's Athletic Club, Penn Hall Preparatory School and New York University.

She represented the United States at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin where she won a bronze medal as part of the U.S. women's 4x100-meter freestyle relay.

Lapp was coached by Virginia Zahn at the Plainfield YWCA during her high school years.

In 1934, she held the New Jersey State Outdoor swimming record in the 50, 100, 220, and 440 yard freestyle, as well as for the 100-yard backstroke, and the 150-yard breaststroke.

The NYU Co-ed swimming team had an outstanding program, with a record of 57–8 in dual meet competition from 1925 to 1938.

[16] Lapp married John A. Squier on the afternoon of August 5, 1944 at Watchung Presbyterian Church in greater Plainfield, New Jersey.

She lived primarily as a homemaker with her husband, John, and two daughters, and devoted much of her time to her family and events at North Plainfield's Watchung Avenue Presbyterian Church.

[17][18] Bernice Lapp Squier died on September 8, 2010, in Haven Hospice at JFK Medical Center in Edison, New Jersey.

Services were held at Watchung Avenue Presbyterian Church in North Plainfield, where she had been active as a member and had been married.