Background
Ballif was the son of Ariel S. Ballif and his wife, Artemesia Romney Ballif. Artemesia was the daughter of George S. Romney and Artemesia Redd and the sister of Marion G. Romney.
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Jae Ballif
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Ballif graduated from Brigham Young High School in Provo, Utah, in the Class of 1949.
Career
Jae"s brother Ariel, Junior. was prominent in Utah theater. He then received his bachelor"s degree from Brigham Young University in 1953, graduating in the same year as his mother, and he joined the Brigham Young University faculty in 1962. He received a Doctor of Philosophy from U.C.L.A in 1962.
Ballif was the founding dean of Brigham Young University"s College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
Ballif was the author of Conceptual Physics along with William East. Dibble. Ballif was a Latter-day Saint.
He also wrote In Search of Truth and Love. From 1977 to 1979, he served as president of the Massachusetts Boston Mission.
He later served as a sealer in the Provo Utah Temple.
Membership
Ballif was provost of Brigham Young University from 1979 to 1989, after which he returned to being a member of the school"s physics faculty.
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