User:CherylAnneGelling/sandbox

Cheryl Anne Gelling (born July 8, 1955 in Waukegan, Ill.)[1] Her parents are Beverly Anne and Laddie Gelling. Siblings are Mark William, Diane Lynn, Ellen Susan, Robert Carl (deceased 2013), Cathleen. half-sister, Nancy Gelling and half brother, Michael James Stavonet (deceased 1963). Grandmothers Anne Ostrander-Brown-Duncan and Helen Marsh, Grandfathers Glenn Ticnor Brown and Carl Gelling (who, upon marrying Helen, adopted Laddie when he was a year-and-a-half-old (Wells)).

Gelling resides in Southern California and works as a nonprofit and business advisor. She holds a Certificate in Fundraising from UCLA Extension[2] She is a member of the Venice, Cal. Chamber of Commerce[3] and is an active community volunteer for the Venice Family Clinic's Annual Art Walk and Auctions[4] to support the clinic's services in the community. She is also a volunteer for the American Heart Association[5]and has congenitall heart disease. Her story "Listen to My Heart and then Listen to Yours"[6] in the magazine, SingularCity.com.

Gelling is adept in board development, social media and communications and uses her skillsets to help make positive change[7]. Gelling serves on the host committee for the Los Angeles Green Festival[8] and joins the staff during the festival as a Stage Host. She is a board advisor to Make Music LA, which is affiliated with Fête de la Musique[9], an annual music festival taking place on June 21 in cities around the world. She is currently working with a circle of Angelinos who are in the initial planning stages of a Los Angeles World's Fair[10]. There is no set date for the fair.

Trivia: Gelling's birthplace of Waukegan was also home to Jack Benny[11] and Ray Bradbury[12]. And, her life began as did Bradbury's "surrounded by a loving extended family during his early childhood and formative years in Waukegan" and so it went for the Gelling family... " in a "... small-town world of the American heartland, which was the foundation of his roots." The surname, Gelling, originates from the Isle of Man.[13]