 During a scout trip to Europe, Monroe and Isabel met Richard Schirrmann and learned about his German Hostelling Organization.They later attended the second International Hosteling Meeting in 1933 and brought the idea of hosteling back to the United States, where the American Hostelling International movement was born.Monroe was born on January 22, 1901 in Sunderland, Massachusetts and died on December 8, 1972 in Delray Beach, Florida.