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Show ALGIE EGGERTSEN Elected 1959 to BALLIF 1963 She E. Ballif was born on May 3, in 1896, Provo, utah. attended elementary and high school there and graduated with a B.A. degree from Brigham Young Academy in 1918. In her fourth year of high school, she won an oratorical contest on the subject "Peace by Arbi tration" sponsored by the American School s Peace League and lake Tabernacle at the convention of the delivered in the Salt In National Education Association. college she was active in dramatics, debating, and sports. She won a block "Y", was editor of the Banyan, and was secretary of the student body in her senior Algie year. During 1916-17 Algie took a year off from college to teach English, physical education and elocution at the Ricks Academy in Rexburg, Idaho, where she met her future husband. After graduating college she taught at American Fork High School, and then at BYU from 19191923. December 24, 1920, she married George S.Ballif. To help her husband at Harvard and the university of through law school California, she taught English, speech and physical education. They were parents of four children: Algene B. Marcus, Salt Lake City; On Joan B. Jensen, San Marcos, California; George Grethe Peterson, Park City, Utah. and Ane E. Ballif, Provo; Ballif was a lifelong member of the LDS Church and active in its various organizations for many years. She was also an active alumna of BYU, and in later life, as a member of the Friends of BYU obtained a from the Bernard and Dean $50,000 gift Library, Eggertsen Foundation for purchase of a co l l ection of music, art and literature. Mrs. the field of education she was elected for five consecutive City School Board, a total of 23 years. She also served a term as president of the Utah School Board Association, and was a School Board Member on the Advisory Council of the Utah Education Association. In terms to the Provo She was active in politics all her life, and held various posts in both the country and state Democratic Party. On one occasion she el ector and had the honor of going was made a presidential to Washington D. C. to cast her vote at the EI ectoral ColI ege for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. she was elected to the Utah House of Representatives. She' member of the Education, Welfare, Judiciary, and State & Municipal Affairs Committees. Her major effort was in education, working to increase the amount of state funds for improving In W'as 142 1958 a |
