Mary Alyce Smith was born in Brooklyn on May 6, 1933, the daughter of Carl and Velma Smith. She graduated from Smith College and taught for a year in the Oklahoma City public schools before taking the law review job. After the couple moved to New York, she worked as an assistant to a partner at an executive recruiting firm. For more than 40 years, Ms. Merow recorded books as a volunteer for Recording for the Blind, which is now called Learning Ally, a nonprofit educational organization that has expanded to help children with learning disabilities as well as the blind. She mostly recorded general-interest textbooks. She stopped about a year ago because she had glaucoma and was herself having trouble reading.
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