While in the Legislature, Menza served on the Mental Health Planning Committee, where he was described by Governor of New Jersey Brendan Byrne as being the "voice of the voiceless".
[2] In April 1978, The New York Times reported claims by Menza that he had been encouraged to drop out of the U.S. Senate race in exchange for an appointment to an unspecified position.
[2] Senator Menza also served on the board of trustees of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey beginning in 2004; and shortly thereafter started the UMDNJ Theater Company, which had its first performance of a one-act play entitled "The List", written by him, in 2005.
Menza was a true renaissance man who loved the theater and the opera and authored many plays that were produced off-Broadway.
[1][2][7] Governor Jon Corzine ordered flags to flown at half-mast at state facilities on March 19, 2007, in his memory.