TRAVEL IN A LITTLE-KNOWN COUNTRY

Abstract

Early in October of 1920, Anton T. Boisen, the man regarded as the founder of clinical pastoral education and the modern pastoral care movement, was at a major personal and professional crossroads in his life. He had attempted for years to win the hand of Alice Batchelder, an executive with the YWCA with whom he had become very smitten after hearing her give an address in 1902 at Indiana University at Bloomington where he was a student. After they met, Alice occasionally agreed to meet with him again and correspond with him, but she absolutely never agreed to any kind of romantic relationship or marriage.