Known for her contributions to school personnel work, Esther McDonald Lloyd-Jones (1901-1991) sought to focus personnel work on the development of the whole person rather than as a set of efficient services to students. She had a major impact on guidance services in the United States.

Esther McDonald was born Jan. 11, 1901, in Lockport, Illinois. She earned her Bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, in 1923 and her Masters and Ph.D. from Columbia University, New York, in 1924 and 1929, respectively. Esther McDonald was married to a man she had met in her teens, Silas Lloyd-Jones, in June 1924. They had two children. With her husband she maintained a farm in Indiana where she employed all the practical crafts associated with farming, priding herself on being a rather skillful "do-it-yourselfer," even while engaged in her active professional life. Her other interests included music (in her early years...