Education
Upon discharge, Meneeley returned to Wilkes-Barre and attended the Murray School of Art and began making frequent trips to New York City.
Upon discharge, Meneeley returned to Wilkes-Barre and attended the Murray School of Art and began making frequent trips to New York City.
The only child of Edward Senior and Ludwina Halter, Meneeley joined the Navy shortly after the Japanese invasion of Pearl harbor. He spent most of World World War II as a medic caring for paraplegics in Riverside California, where he befriended Marlon Brando during the filming of The Men, which took place on his ward. He was then recalled for the Korean War, where he served as a Navy photographer at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital.
When released, Meneeley staged two solo exhibitions at the Donovan Gallery in Philadelphia before moving to Manhattan to attend New York"s School of Visual Arts on his second installment of the GI Bill.