Stanley L. Klos

Stanley Louis "Stan" Klos (born January 18, 1954), a former Italian basketball player, [ [http://evisum.com/gallery/skbbi.jpgAmateur Basketball Association of The United States of America] International Player License Travel Permit ] is a businessman and historical preservationist. Klos was a U.S. Senate GOP Nominee, who challenged Robert C. Byrd for the West Virginia seat in 1994.

Klos was born in New York City, New York to Dr. Louis A. Klos, founder of the Catholic Businessmen’s Association of New York City, and Eileen Hundertmark. Klos became interested in historical preservation in his early teens acquiring antiques at flea markets in the 1960s. In the 1970s he turned his pursuits to automobiles, assembling a collection of classic cars. He currently resides in Florida with his eight children.

Historic preservationist

In the 1980s and 1990s, Klos began preserving historic properties, eventually accumulating 32, including: 1774 Revolutionary War Tavern – Millstone, NJ; 1790 Imlay Mansion, Allentown, NJ [ [http://evisum.com/gallery/skallarticle.jpgRemnants of hospital discovered in old home] Asbury Park Press by Mark Dillon 1984 ] ; 1845 McCullough Mansion and Estate, Ohio County, WV [ [http://evisum.com/gallery/skentrep.jpgBusinessman teaches his trade] Intelligencer, By: Janice Bullard 1987 ] ; 1870 Coachman Estate, tabby construction, Cedar Key, Florida; 1887 Spring Lake Hotel, Spring Lake, NJ [ [http://evisum.com/gallery/skslake.jpgJudge Overrules Zoning Panel] July 28, 1983 ] ; 1887 Presbyterian Stone Church, Carnegie, PA [ [http://www.gatewaynewspapers.com/signalitem/23282/ Renaissance Gallery opens Thursday] The Signal Item, Wednesday, January 15, 2003] , 1870 Adams County Court House Annex Building Gettysburg, PA [ [http://roi.us/gburg.htm Gettysburg has history to spare] The Evening Sun, By JOSEPH DEINLEIN Gettysburg, PA July 29, 2005] ; 1898 Edinburg Village - West Windsor, NJ [ [http://evisum.com/gallery/skww.jpgOne Man's Effort to Save Historic Village] Princeton Packett, By Sally Lane 1985 ] ;1904 Victoria [ [http://evisum.com/gallery/skvic.jpgKlos Seeks Original Marquee] Intelligencer, By Martha Leonard 1989 ] Vaudeville Theater, Wheeling, WV [ [http://www.victoria-theater.com/ Victoria Vaudeville Theater] ] ; 1904 Mason Building, Carnegie, PA; 1917 Honus Wagner Home [ [http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_424043.html You and Honus Wagner slept here] ,By Brian C. Rittmeyer, TRIBUNE-REVIEW, Wednesday, February 15, 2006] —Carnegie, NJ; University Place, Princeton– NJ. 1915 West Virginia Bank Building, ten story terra cotta, Wheeling, WV. [ [http://evisum.com/gallery/AbsureTN.jpgWest Virginia Bank Building] Terra cotta ten stories Circa 1917 1201 Main Street, Wheeling, WV]

In the 1990s, Klos began collecting historical documents, and placed these primary sources online at hundreds of URLs named after their notable subjects or authors, such as (benjaminfranklin.org), (fortpitt.org), (worldwarII.org). These documents were re-formed into award-winning exhibits that are featured at museums, universities, and special events all across the United States. [ [http://www.roi.us/politicalfest.htm PoliticalFest] "World's Fair of Politics" A Success in Philadelphia ] [ [http://roi.us/MGM.htm 'Rebels With a Cause' Opens at MGM] A collection of rare historic documents from the founding days of the United States, "Rebels With A Cause," will be open to the public Feb. 28 through March 2 at the MGM Grand Conference Center.] [ [http://roi.us/mont2.htm "This Just In: The Constitution as Breaking News"] NEW EXHIBIT AT JAMES MADISON’S MONTPELIER FEATURES RARE VERSIONS OF U.S. CONSTITUTION, BILL OF RIGHTS ] [ [http://roi.us/07-01-1999.htm Rebels with a Cause] By Bill Schackner, Post-Gazette Staff Writer Thursday, July 01, 1999 ] [ [http://www.stanklos.com/pennsylvaniasociety/ Pennsylvania Society's Annual Awards Banquet] 2004 Gold Medal Exhibit, Waldorf=Astoria]

In 2004, Klos, as a Board member of the James Monroe Foundation, proposed that JMF acquire and restore the family farm and birthplace of President James Monroe. On April 4, 2005, the County of Westmoreland signed a 99-year lease with the foundation, and Klos was named Chairman of the James Monroe Birthplace Commission. [ [http://www.monroefoundation.org/birthplace.html James Monroe Birthplace Commission] James Monroe Foundation established in 1928.] Under the stewardship of James Monroe Foundation's President G. William Thomas, archaeologists from the College of William & Mary began the site study for restoration in 2006. [ [http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2006/072006/07082006/204960 Digging for buried History] The Free Lance-Star, Story by FRANK DELANO July 8, 2006.]

Klos was co-founder of The James Monroe Scholarship Award established in 2001 by the James Monroe Foundation. [ [http://jamesmonroe.org/welcome.html James Monroe Scholarship Award] Established in 2001 by the James Monroe Foundation.] The award is an annual essay contest for juniors and seniors enrolled in a public, private or home-school high school programs. All 1st, 2nd and 3rd place essays are posted online at jamesmonroe.org [ [http://jamesmonroe.org/scholars.html James Monroe Scholars] ]

Klos is the co-founder of Dinosaur Safaris, Inc. located in Shell, Wyoming [ [http://www.dinosaursafaris.com/welcome.html Dinosaur Safaris, Inc.] Shell, Wyoming ] [ [http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=59591 Local family business uncovers a dinosaur!] Tampabay Channel 10, July 23, 2007 ] . The company is headed by Paleontologist Bob Simon. Under Simon's stewardship four fully articulated dinosaurs–Camarasaurus, Stegosaurus, Diplodocus, and Camptosaurus–have been discovered. [ [http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=120048&page=1 Foraging For Fossils] Good Morning America, By Pauline ArrillagavS H E L L, Wyo., Aug. 7, 2007]

Authorial activities

"President Who? Forgotten Founders "' [ [http://www.stanklos.com/book/ PRESIDENT WHO? FORGOTTEN FOUNDERS] 2004 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Estoric, ISBN 0-9752627-5-0 ] is a landmark work that unravels the complex birth of the U.S. Presidency [ [http://www.fdrheritage.org/newspaper/grandopening1.htm Roosevelt's legacy is "an inspiration'] Worchester Telegram By Pamela H. Sacks Sunday, July 25, 2004 ] while providing captivating biographies on four Presidents of the Continental Congress and ten Presidents of the United States in Congress Assembled serving before George Washington from 1774-1788. [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/02/nyregion/02towns.html?ei=5007&en=ea020f2bb3a9014c&ex=1401595200&partner=USERLAND&pagewanted=print&position= Can't Recall 11th President? Got a Dollar?] The New York Times By PETER APPLEBOME June 2, 2004 ] Peppered with pre-1789 letters, resolutions, treaties, and laws signed as "President of the United States", the book relies heavily on primary sources as proofs the office existed before 1789. [ [http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/hotsites/2004/2004-01-28-hotsites.htm USA TODAY Presidents of the United States] January 28 2004 ] The research has resulted in:

*Klos's selection as the keynote speaker for the 2003 tomb rededication and re-interment of Samuel Huntington as the first President of the United States under the Articles of Confederation in 1781. [ [http://roi.us/tomb.htm First President' Is Reburied] Norwich Bulletin, November 24, 2003 ]
*The Smithsonian Institute’s “The American Presidency, A Glorious Burden” [ [http://roi.us/2-14-2004.htm Earliest U.S. presidents are mostly forgotten] Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Monday, February 16, 2004 [http://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/home.html The American Presidency a Glorious Burden] ] including the book's primary resources in the internationally acclaimed exhibit
*An expert appearance on the Discovery Channel program, “Unsolved History: Plots To Kill Lincoln”. [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420463/ Unsolved History" Plots to Kill Lincoln] Discovery Channel 4 February 2004]
*"U.S. News & World Report" utilizing the work in the August 6, 2006 cover story, “"Washington? Get In Line." [ [http://www.i2008.org/magazine/U.S.News.World.Report.Magazine.August.14.2006.pdf "Washington, Get In Line"] Cover Story US News and World Report, August 12, 2006 ]
*The founding of a U.S. Presidential Museum in Samuel Huntington’s home town honoring the 1774-1788 Confederation Period has received the endorsements of the Norwich Historical Society, Yale University, Connecticut State Historian, Connecticut Congressional Delegation, City of Norwich and Connecticut‘s Governor. [ [http://www.norwichhistoricalsociety.org/pr/library_info.pdf U.S. Presidential Museum] Norwich Historical Society March 1, 2006 ]
*President Who? Forgotten Founders' research is also spotlighted in the May-June 2007 “"History Channel Magazine.” "

Entrepreneurial endeavours

*'Klos acquired an under-performing State master franchise with declining sales and expertly managed a marketing mix that exploded earned commissions from $240K to $36 million in twelve years. [ [http://www.remax.com/inside_remax/news_and_events/making_news/press_releases/1999/1004.aspx RE/MAX INTERNATIONAL REACQUIRES PENNSYLVANIA AND DELAWARE REGIONS] RE/MAX International Press Release, November 1999]
*He envisioned, launched and successfully secured $25 to $30 million in government bonds and/or financing on numerous residential and commercial development projects in New Jersey [ [http://roi.us/horsepark.htm Horse Park of New Jersey] High Meadow Orchard Associates (HMOA) a partnership formed by Klos and Tony Nini to create a Thoroughbred Equestrian Community ] , Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. [ [http://www.the-highlands.com/ The Highlands of West Virginia] Ohio County Commission, Wheeling, WV [http://www.skibocentre.com/fh.htm David Sims and Stan Klos Founders] ]
*'He established an innovative internet e-Education Company, Virtualology.com, in 1999 with page views topping 70,000 per day by its 4^th year. [ [http://virtualology.com/ Virtualology] Crystal Beach, Florida Founded in 1999 ]
*He acquired, preserved and profitably re-developed 32 historically significant properties ranging from Vaudeville Theaters to Revolutionary War Taverns. [ [http://roi.us/develop.htm Historic Re-Development] Historic Preservation since 1979 ]
*He devised a rare document PR model whose exhibits have headlined a plethora of universities, museums, libraries and national historic sites’ special events.
*He is one of a select group of RE/MAX Regional Owners who masterminded the expansion of the world largest real estate sales force from 10,000 to 60,000 associates; in thirteen years averaging 120K annually in commissions. [ [http://evisum.com/gallery/skbushpocono.jpgRE/MAX head offer Bush a recovery Plan] The Pocono Record, Saturday January 25, 1992]

Politics

As 1992-1994 West Virginia Republican State Committee Finance Chairman, he turned around an under performing Republican State Political Committee by completely changing its business model and strategy. Grew annual contributions by 750%. As1994 Republican Nominee U.S. Senate - won the West Virginia Republican Party's nomination for U.S. Senate after defeating physician Arthur R. Gindin in the primary 61% to 39%. Campaigned as a "sacrificial lamb" against Robert C. Byrd participating in the Republican U.S. Senatorial Committee’s strategy to re-capture a majority in the United States Senate in 1994. Strategy was successful as Robert C. Byrd (D), although elected 290,495, 69% to Stan Klos (R), 130,441, 31%, spent $1,550,354 to Klos' $267,165. [ [http://election.nationaljournal.com/2006/senate/wv.htm US Senate 1994] Byrd (D) versus Klos (R) ] Additionally the Democratic Party invested over $1 million in that State's U.S. Senatorial Campaign to the Republican Party's $15,000. The GOP captured a majority in the U.S. Senate. The highlights of the campaign included the hiring of an actor to play Robert C. Byrd who toured in staged Statewide Debates when the incumbent refused Klos's invitation for a series of formal Senatorial Debates. The campaign also organized successful demonstrations against the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Health Care Bus as it traveled through West Virginia in the summer of 1994. Senator Byrd, while the bill was being debated on the Senate floor rose suggesting the brakes be put on approving National Health Care measure while the bus was completing its tour in WV. To Klos's credit, the campaign did not implement the "Death by a Thousand Cuts" plan proposed by strategists which was later acknowledged in speeches given and letters written by U.S. Senator Byrd. [ [http://www.roi.us/pics.h4.jpgRobert C. Byrd Letter to Stanley L. Klos] October 31, 1997 ]
*1996 State Treasurer Nominee - recruited by WV State Committee Chairman Steve La Rose, Klos uncovered a scheme to circumvent the WV State Constitution's ban on investing State funds into equities during his campaign for State Treasurer. Klos challenged the “West Virginia Trust Fund” which was declared unconstitutional by the WV Supreme Court on February 25, 1997. [ [http://www.state.wv.us/WVSCA/docs%5Cspring97%5C23939.htm SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF WEST VIRGINIA] West Virginia Trust Fund declared Unconstitutional February 25, 1997 ] The following year an amendment to the State Constitution allowing equity investments was proposed to the voters and passed by a 71 to 29 percent margin. The Wheeling News Register summed up Klos’s efforts in their Editorial "Klos Took A Stand Based on What is Right" [ [http://www.roi.us/picstr2.jpg"Klos Took A Stand Based on What is Right"] Wheeling News Redgister, West Virginia September 29, 1997]

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NCAA I College Basketball

*1972-1974 St. Peter's College - Center/Forward
*1975-1977 Idaho State University - Center/Forward

International Basketball Federation

Klos played for Italy's Amaro Harrys Bologna [ [http://evisum.com/gallery/skbbarti.jpgAmaro Harrys vs Jolly Colombani] Pesaro, Italy 1978 ] [ [http://sports.webshots.com/photo/2265039850066456772laqxPv Amaro Harrys Jersey] Amaro Harrys Bologna (Italian league) 1978-79 ] of the Italian Basketball Association [ [http://evisum.com/gallery/skbbpic.jpgAmaro Harry's Forward] Bologna, Italy 1978 ] . He also was the Captain of the United States Basketball Team which participated in European International Tournaments in 1979. [ [http://roi.us/usa.htm USA Basketball] Cartoon of Stan Klos Circa 1978 ] , [ [http://evisum.com/gallery/skbbi.jpgAmateur Basketball Association of The United States of America] International Player License Travel Permit ]

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