Background
Menconi, Ralph Joseph was born on June 17, 1915 in Union City, New Jersey, United States. Son of Raffaello E. and Josephine (Zampieri) Menconi.
Menconi, Ralph Joseph was born on June 17, 1915 in Union City, New Jersey, United States. Son of Raffaello E. and Josephine (Zampieri) Menconi.
Graduate Scarborough Preparatory School, 1932. Student Hamilton College, 1932-1933, Doctor of Fine Arts (honorary), 1971. Student National Academy of Design, 1933-1936.
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Yale, 1939.
Commissioned works for American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations Headquarters, Washington, Spear Library. Princeton, New Jersey, Pace College, Koppers Company, South Bend (Indiana) Public Library, Reredos Emanuel Lutheran Church, Pleasantville, New York, 1965, Project Mercury Pad 14, Cape Kennedy, Florida, MacArthur Memorial, Norfolk, Virginia, United States Capitol medal Capitol History Society, Sigma Delta Chi monument DePauw University, busts and fountain Pace University, others Portrait busts include General Sommervel, F. Ecker, Samuel Gompers, Conrad Hilton, Levi Esckol, Lyndon B. Johnson, Roy and Lila Cullen, Robert F. Kennedy, Governor Melvin Evans, Judson B. Branch, others
Three historic medals series, Great Religions of the World series, special medals, President Kennedy Campaign medal, 1963, Winston Churchill medal, 1965, President Nixon Inaugural medal, Manitoba’s 1st Lunar Landing medal, Apollo XII, XIII, XIV and XV Flights medal.
Delaware, Fine Arts Federation, New York City, 1966. Village trustee, Pleasantville, 1959-1964, police commissioner, 1960-1964.
Member panel for United States coin and medals American Bicentennial Commission, from 1970.
Member panel for United States coin and medals American Bicentennial Commission, from 1970. Served to major Civil Engineer, Army of the United States. Member Century Association, National Sculpture Society (council from 1965, 1st vice president from 1967.
Municipal Society New York City (director 1954-1960), Delta Upsilon.
Married Marjorie Livingston Ewen, October 12, 1946. Children: Ralph Joseph, II, Susan Ewen.