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Stanley Yavneh Klos is an author, independent scholar,
adjunct professor, entrepreneur, and former Italian Basketball Association
player.
Stan’s education includes a BA in American
Studies, BS in Zoology, MA in Rhetorical Theory & Historic Public Address
and a Ph.D. Candidacy in Communications and Marketing. He attended,
respectively, St. Peter’s College, Idaho State University and The
Pennsylvania State University. In 1983, upon the discovery of 18th Century
Philadelphia shipping records in his attic, Stan began to research and
exhibit primary source documents.
Stan has authored numerous publications
while assembling rare primary source collections that have headlined a
plethora of universities, national historic sites, libraries, and museums
special exhibits. His most recent exhibits were for the Louisiana
Bicentennial Celebration at
the state capitol April 30th – May 6, 2012 and “America’s Four
Republics: The More or Less United States” headlined
at the Annapolis Continental
Congress Festival November
26-28th, 2012.
Stan has keynoted numerous special events
including the Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center Museum’s
grand opening and the 2003
re-entombment of First Lady
Martha & President Samuel Huntington. His work has appeared in hundreds of
print and digital publications including History Channel's Brad
Meltzer's Decoded, The
Declaration of Independence, U.S. News & World Report 2006 cover story,
“Washington? Get In Line" & the Discovery Channel’s “Unsolved History: Plots
To Kill Lincoln.” He has authored five books, President
Who? Forgotten Founders; The Rise
of the U.S. Presidency and
the Forgotten Capitols; Happy
Birthdays USA, Economic
Home Runs, and America's
Four Republics: The More or Less United States.
Stan is an avid real estate historic
preservationist who has re-developed 32 historically significant properties
ranging from Vaudeville theaters to Revolutionary War Taverns in five
states. He is a co-founder of various historic pursuits including the James
Monroe Birthplace Commission and
Dinosaur Safaris, Inc., in Shell, Wyoming which unearthed five articulated
dinosaurs from the Jurassic period.
In 1999 Stan established an innovative
internet education company, Virtualology.com which,
as a survivor of the dot com crash, enjoys over 500,000 pages views a day.
As a real estate entrepreneur he acquired RE/MAX of Pennsylvania n/w
expertly managing a marketing mix that increased yearly commission revenue
from $240K to $36 million in 12 years. Stan participated, as a Regional
Owner, in the executive mastermind that expanded RE/MAX into the world’s
largest real estate entity.
Stan was an Italian Basketball Association
player for Amaro Harrys in Bologna. He was the Captain of a U.S. Basketball
Team, which competed in a 1978 European International Tournament. He has
served on diverse boards including the WV Independent Colleges &
Universities, Pittsburgh YMCA Family Camp, and the Mercy Center of N.J. He
was the WV
U.S. Senate Republican Nominee in
1994 challenging Robert C. Byrd signing the “Contract
with America.”
Stan is married to Dr. Naomi Yavneh Klos the
Director of University Honors, Loyola University, New Orleans
