ASLAN SOCIETY OFFICERS:
ASHLEY SHEETS, President
Ashley is a Gift Planning Officer for the ASU Foundation, with experience in investment planning, financial product marketing, and charitable fundraising. Before joining the Foundation in May 2005, Ashley served as the Major Gifts Director at Valley of the Sun United Way, where she worked with the organization’s Alexis de Tocqueville Society. Previously, she has provided investment planning and wealth management services to retail clients at Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., Wachovia Investments, and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Ashley is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and the Planned Giving Round Table of Arizona. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia. Ashley attends Valley Presbyterian Church in Scottsdale, and has been involved in young adult ministry and community service. One of her dogs, a sweet and handsome chow rescued from the roadside, is named “Aslan.”
GREGORY CLEVELAND, Vice President
Gregory has served as Assistant Director for the Office of Planning and Budget at ASU since 2005. He began work at the university as a Fiscal Planning and Policy Analyst in 2001. Prior to joining ASU, Gregory spent 15 years in local government budgeting with the Cities of Phoenix and Oakland, California. While working for the City of Phoenix, he was a leader in developing “City of Phoenix Employees for Christ,” a fellowship of Christian employees in the workplace. Gregory received a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and economics from Pomona College and a Master in Public Affairs degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Gregory has been married to his wife, Linda, for over 20 years. They have three sons, Christopher, Corey, and Chandler. He and his family attend Shiloh Community Church in Phoenix.
LINDA STENHOLM, Treasurer
Linda was hired in December 2006 as the Front Office Manager in the School of Geographical Sciences at ASU. Linda’s career with ASU began in June 2002, at the front desk in the Registrar's Office. She has also worked at Parking and at the Upward Bound Program in Student Life. Prior to her moving to Arizona, she worked at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, for the Institute of the Liberal Arts, and at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois (her home town and alma mater). At Northwestern, Linda worked at the Accounts Payable office but especially loved working and learning at the Program of African Studies. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science with a special emphasis on African Studies in 1989. Linda is a member of St. Matthew’s Methodist Church in Mesa where she serves as a children’s Sunday School teacher, a Trustee, a member of the Missions Committee, and as Social Action Coordinator. She is married, has one son, and three grandchildren.
WILLIAM GENTRUP, Secretary
Bill has been Assistant Director of ACMRS since 1991. His duties include grant writing and management, assistant director of MRTS, budgets and hiring, local operations of Iter: A Medieval and Renaissance On-line Bibliography, membership secretary for the Renaissance English Text Society and production and distribution of its publications, tutor of ACMRS paleography courses, and administration of the Distinguished Visiting Professor program. He has a PhD in Renaissance English literature from ASU, and his teaching and research interests include Shakespeare, Milton, the Bible in literature, and literary approaches to the Bible.
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