Alice Pinkham Davies Alice Pinkham Davies, co-owner of a resume writing service in Towson, Maryland, since 1992, died Thursday, May 3, 2012, of complications from Alzheimer's disease at Gilchrist Hospice Center in Towson. A descendent of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins of the Mayflower, she was a 13th generation American and celebrated her 85th birthday this past April 24th. Born Alice Arnold Pinkham in Washington, DC, she was the daughter of Alden Stone Pinkham, a 1925 graduate of Harvard and longtime sales executive with National Cash Register, and the former Marie Butler Arnold, the daughter of a Boston attorney.  She was a 1944 graduate of Milton High School in that town, attended The Brimmer and May School in Boston for one year, and completed two years of study in English at Smith College prior to leaving college to marry and raise a family.  After divorcing her first husband and marrying Thomas E. Davies Jr. of Baltimore in 1974, she returned to Smith College in 1980 and was graduated with honors in Sociology in 1981. Her next four years were spent in the MA/PhD program in Sociology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she completed her studies just short of a doctoral thesis, accepted a Master of Arts degree in 1985, and joined her husband in a resume writing business in Springfield, Massachusetts. The couple relocated the business to Towson in 1991, where Alice successfully assisted thousands of area job seekers to attain their career objectives. As a young mother, Alice was active in Girl Scouts and held leadership roles in both her daughters' troops. She organized a trip to Washington, DC, participated in many camp outings with her scouts, and was also active in the Sudbury, Massachusetts, Unitarian Church. Following her divorce from Donald K. Grose in 1969, she found little in common with the extant support system for newly separated and divorced people, and with the help of a fellow parishioner, designed and founded a highly successful and much imitated self-help-based group that she named "The Next Step." Within three years, the organization had more than 200 dues-paying members in the Boston suburbs and Alice had successfully managed two group summer vacation houses for members in Bismark, Maine, in 1972, and Harwich Port, Massachusetts, in 1973. It was that summer that she met Thomas Davies, whom she would marry in September of 1974. Alice was particularly proud of the academic success of her two daughters, both of whom possess multiple advanced degrees. Her eldest, Karen Way, of  Piscataway, NJ, received a Ph.D. in English at Rutgers University in 1986, worked in public relations for AT&T until 2001, and completed a second Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 2005. Her second daughter, Elizabeth Rogalin of Chatham, NJ, was also a Smith College graduate, received an MFA in Poetry from Vermont College in 1995 and was awarded an MSW from Rutgers University in 2011. Both are currently practicing mental health professionals in New Jersey. She is also survived by three sons, Donald L. Grose of Framingham, MA, Jay D. Grose of South Dennis, MA, and Griffin T. Davies of South Yarmouth, MA, plus five grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.A memorial service is being planned for a future date. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Gilchrist Hospice Center at www.gilchristhospice.org.