Stanley L. Klos
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Stanley Louis "Stan" Klos (born January 18, 1954), a former amateur Italian basketball
player, 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 National Catholic Business Education Association, 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.
, NJ; 1790 Imlay Mansion, Allentown, NJ; 1845 McCullough Mansion and Estate, Ohio County, WV; 1870 Coachman Estate, tabby construction, Cedar Key, Florida; 1887 Spring Lake Hotel, Spring Lake, NJ; 1887 Presbyterian Stone Church, Carnegie, PA, 1870 Adams County Court House Annex Building Gettysburg, PA; 1898 Edinburg Village, West Windsor, NJ; 1904 Victoria Vaudeville Theater, Wheeling, WV; 1904 Mason Building, Carnegie, PA; 1917 Honus Wagner Home, Carnegie, NJ; University Place, Princeton, NJ; 1915 West Virginia Bank Building, ten-story terra cotta, 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In the 1990s, Klos began collecting historical documents, and placed these primary sources online at hundreds of URLs named after their notable subjects or authors, such as (benjaminfranklin.org), (fortpitt.org),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.
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. 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.
Klos was co-founder of The 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.
Klos is the co-founder of Dinosaur Safaris, Inc., in Shell, Wyoming. The company is headed by paleontologist Bob Simon
. Under Simon's stewardship, four fully articulated dinosaurs–Camarasaurus
, Stegosaurus
, Diplodocus
, and Camptosaurus
–have been discovered.
“Happy Birthdays USA” answers the question; When is the true birthday of the United States of America? The book asks the readers to open their minds and discover a secret beginning that was conceived in a Philadelphia Tavern, delivered in a NYC Tavern, and cradled in a renovated City Hall. The USA Founding was a complicated but most miraculous birth. This U.S. Founding Handbook completely documents the nation's birth.
The Virtualology Project, founded in 1999, was designed with its own search engine, Evisum.com and coupled it with an online research model that included over 7,500 unique URL addresses of notable individuals (GaiusJuliusCaesar.com), events (BattleofYorktown.com), places (HimalayaMountains.com) and things (thedeclarationofindependence.org). In 1999, this enabled visitors to merely type the researched name into any browser, yielding a Virtualology educational site. These educational sites were organized into five virtual museums and one virtual library. The distinctive twist was that each domain name became an exclusive student-publishing web site. Student submissions were presented through their teachers and routed directly to the individual sites either to the URLS' editing sponsors or to Virtualology Editors. Editing sponsors were educators from a variety of educational institutions including museums, libraries, foundations, universities, and historical societies who became responsible for their URL’s content. Virtualology created an environment where students published their work on URLS named for the topic of their research. 13 months after Virtualology's launch USA Today
voted it as one of its “Hot Sites”.
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. 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.
's Amaro Harrys Bologna of the Italian Basketball Association. He also was the Captain of the United States Basketball Team which participated in European International Tournaments in 1979.,
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
player, businessman, and historical preservationist. Klos was a U.S. Senate GOP Nominee who challenged Robert C. Byrd for the West Virginia
West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...
seat in 1994.
Klos was born in New York City, New York to Dr. Louis A. Klos, founder of the National Catholic Business Education Association, and Eileen Hundertmark. Klos became interested in historical preservation in his early teens acquiring antiques
Antiques
An antique is an old collectible item. It is collected or desirable because of its age , beauty, rarity, condition, utility, personal emotional connection, and/or other unique features...
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
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
with his eight children.
Historic preservationist
In the 1980s and 1990s, Klos began preserving historic properties, eventually accumulating 32, including: 1774 Revolutionary War Tavern, MillstoneMillstone
Millstones or mill stones are used in windmills and watermills, including tide mills, for grinding wheat or other grains.The type of stone most suitable for making millstones is a siliceous rock called burrstone , an open-textured, porous but tough, fine-grained sandstone, or a silicified,...
, NJ; 1790 Imlay Mansion, Allentown, NJ; 1845 McCullough Mansion and Estate, Ohio County, WV; 1870 Coachman Estate, tabby construction, Cedar Key, Florida; 1887 Spring Lake Hotel, Spring Lake, NJ; 1887 Presbyterian Stone Church, Carnegie, PA, 1870 Adams County Court House Annex Building Gettysburg, PA; 1898 Edinburg Village, West Windsor, NJ; 1904 Victoria Vaudeville Theater, Wheeling, WV; 1904 Mason Building, Carnegie, PA; 1917 Honus Wagner Home, Carnegie, NJ; University Place, Princeton, NJ; 1915 West Virginia Bank Building, ten-story terra cotta, 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.
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
James Monroe
James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States . Monroe was the last president who was a Founding Father of the United States, and the last president from the Virginia dynasty and the Republican Generation...
. 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. 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.
Klos was co-founder of The 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.
Klos is the co-founder of Dinosaur Safaris, Inc., in Shell, Wyoming. The company is headed by paleontologist Bob Simon
Bob Simon
Bob Simon is a CBS News television correspondent.From 1964–67, Simon served as an American Foreign Service officer and was a Fulbright Scholar in France and a Woodrow Wilson scholar. From 1969–71, he served a tour in the CBS News London bureau. From 1971–77, he was based in the London and Saigon...
. Under Simon's stewardship, four fully articulated dinosaurs–Camarasaurus
Camarasaurus
Camarasaurus meaning 'chambered lizard', referring to the hollow chambers in its vertebrae was a genus of quadrupedal, herbivorous dinosaurs. It was the most common of the giant sauropods to be found in North America...
, Stegosaurus
Stegosaurus
Stegosaurus is a genus of armored stegosaurid dinosaur. They lived during the Late Jurassic period , some 155 to 150 million years ago in what is now western North America. In 2006, a specimen of Stegosaurus was announced from Portugal, showing that they were present in Europe as well...
, Diplodocus
Diplodocus
Diplodocus , or )is a genus of diplodocid sauropod dinosaur whose fossils were first discovered in 1877 by S. W. Williston. The generic name, coined by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1878, is a Neo-Latin term derived from Greek "double" and "beam", in reference to its double-beamed chevron bones...
, and Camptosaurus
Camptosaurus
Camptosaurus is a genus of plant-eating, beaked ornithischian dinosaurs of the Late Jurassic period of western North America. The name means 'flexible lizard', ....
–have been discovered.
Authorial activities
President Who? Forgotten Founders is a landmark work that unravels the complex birth of the U.S. Presidency 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. 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. Who was the first President of the United States?“Happy Birthdays USA” answers the question; When is the true birthday of the United States of America? The book asks the readers to open their minds and discover a secret beginning that was conceived in a Philadelphia Tavern, delivered in a NYC Tavern, and cradled in a renovated City Hall. The USA Founding was a complicated but most miraculous birth. This U.S. Founding Handbook completely documents the nation's birth.
Virtualology
Virtualology.com, a website that hosts historical documents, art, natural history research and biographies, was created by Klos. It hosts a copyrighted, edited version of Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography under its FamousAmericans.net website. Virtualology created an online educational venue where students published their work on the appropriate World Wide Web sites.The Virtualology Project, founded in 1999, was designed with its own search engine, Evisum.com and coupled it with an online research model that included over 7,500 unique URL addresses of notable individuals (GaiusJuliusCaesar.com), events (BattleofYorktown.com), places (HimalayaMountains.com) and things (thedeclarationofindependence.org). In 1999, this enabled visitors to merely type the researched name into any browser, yielding a Virtualology educational site. These educational sites were organized into five virtual museums and one virtual library. The distinctive twist was that each domain name became an exclusive student-publishing web site. Student submissions were presented through their teachers and routed directly to the individual sites either to the URLS' editing sponsors or to Virtualology Editors. Editing sponsors were educators from a variety of educational institutions including museums, libraries, foundations, universities, and historical societies who became responsible for their URL’s content. Virtualology created an environment where students published their work on URLS named for the topic of their research. 13 months after Virtualology's launch USA Today
USA Today
USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003...
voted it as one of its “Hot Sites”.
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. SenateUnited States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...
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. 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.
- 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. 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"
NCAA I career
- 1972-1974 St. Peter's College - Center/Forward
- 1975-1977 Idaho State University - Center/Forward
International Basketball Federation
Klos played for ItalyItaly
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
's Amaro Harrys Bologna of the Italian Basketball Association. He also was the Captain of the United States Basketball Team which participated in European International Tournaments in 1979.,