About Alice




Alice S. Morrow Rowan gained her foundational experience in the production of books and journals while serving in-house at Jossey-Bass (a publishing unit of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) in San Francisco for more than eight years. She has also worked as an independent copyeditor and production editor either part-time or full-time since July 1994. Clients have included Jossey-Bass, Taylor & Francis, Berrett-Koehler, and Stanford University Press (see Copyedited Since 2003), as well as the following individuals:


Alice has also served in a variety of nonprofit and educational organizations and institutions, including the following:

Three years (January 2019–Present) as Administrative Assistant–Receptionist at Zerbe Retirement Community in Narvon, PA. Responsibilities include:

  • Answering and routing phone calls
  • Monitoring the skilled nursing facility's front entrance, assisting and directing visitors
  • Receiving and sorting mail; preparing outgoing mail using Stamps.com to create postage and shipping labels
  • Creating door and bedboard labels and ID wristbands for new residents
  • Creating ID badges for staff
  • Scanning admissions and other documents and uploading to Point Click Care
  • Creating signs, fliers, and other documents as requested
  • Distributing paychecks and pay stubs
  • Training and supervising weekend receptionists
  • Assisting the nursing home administrator, director of nursing, human resources director, admissions director, marketing director, CEO, and other staff with daily and other tasks
Three years (January 2016–January 2019) as Activity Aide and part-time Receptionist at Maple Farm Nursing Center, A Garden Spot Community, in Akron, PA. Responsibilities included:
  • Helping to plan and implement both group and individual resident activities
  • Charting resident participation in activities
  • Answering reception desk phone and directing calls
  • Greeting and assisting visitors as needed
  • Editing monthly newsletter, including interviewing residents, family members, staff, and volunteers; editing photos and other submitted materials; laying out and printing pages
  • A variety of administrative tasks
Two years (January 2004–October 2005) as Education Program Coordinator at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, DC. Responsibilities included:
  • Coordinating logistics for education programs (lectures, symposia, book readings/signings, short-term weekly classes, weekend workshops) as a member of the education team
  • Editing publicity materials for events
  • Making travel and accommodation arrangements for speakers
  • Managing ticket sales at events
  • Ordering merchandise through Cathedral store for sale at events
  • Obtaining volunteer support
  • Creating printed materials for distribution at events
  • Recording symposium speakers and creating publications from the transcribed proceedings
One year (July 1987–May 1988) as Membership Secretary of the Middle States Association's Commission on Elementary Schools, headquartered in Philadelphia, PA. Responsibilities included:
  • Maintaining all records on member schools
  • Acquiring information from members through written questionnaires and phone interviews that I then published in several "best practices" guides and distributed to all member schools
  • Reviewing schools' written accreditation materials and preparing summaries to be presented at biannual Commission meetings
  • Soliciting and receiving artwork from students at all member schools (including those overseas) to be displayed at a Commission meeting
  • Creating an illustrated booklet about the students, their artwork, and the schools to accompany the display
Four years (September 1983–July 1987) as Administrative Assistant at St. Barnabas Episcopal School, a private 100-student K-6 school in Philadelphia, PA. Responsibilities included:
  • Managing the office with and on behalf of the headmistress
  • Ordering books and supplies
  • Arranging field trips and assembly programs
  • Maintaining all student records
  • Coordinating small-scale fundraisers
  • Preparing correspondence for the headmistress and teachers
  • Initiating and publishing a student art and literary newspaper several times per year during all four years of my employment
  • Ghostwriting correspondence and preparing other documents for the headmistress, enabling her to spend more time attending networking and continuing education events
Her formal education includes a bachelor of science degree in human services with a minor in theology, earned from the University of Scranton.

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