Stanley Klos

Stanley Yavneh Klos is an author, entrepreneur, professor and former Italian Basketball Association player. He changed his middle name from Louis to Yavneh after marrying Naomi Yavneh Klos in 2011. He is the President of the Historic.us Corporation, a non-profit organization dedicated to challenging the public to view history through the lens of primary source exhibits. Historic.us exhibits have headlined a plethora of universities, national historic sites, libraries, and museums exhibitions since 2004. In conjunction with the exhibits, Stan has authored five books on primary sources and the U.S. Founding with the most recent being "The Congressional Evolution of the United States of America." As a public speaker, 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." 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. As a real estate entrepreneur, Stan acquired RE/MAX of Pennsylvania n/w and expertly managed a marketing mix that increased yearly commission revenues from $240,000 to $36 million. Stan has brought this expertise into the classroom by teaching the MBA Real Estate Investment class at Loyola's College of Business in New Orleans. In 1999 Stan established an online education publishing company that acquired over 8,500 URLs to publish thousands of student papers. By 2002, the Virtualology student publishing project exceeded 500,000 web page views a day. With the explosion of education sites in the 00's and Wikipedia's meteoric success, the student publishing model was discontinued. Many of the historic domain names became biographical websites while hundreds of others, like annefrank.org, were donated to non-profit education entities all over the world. Stan is the co-founder of Dinosaur Safaris, Inc. (DSI), which is an ongoing private paleontology company whose Shell Wyoming quarry site has yielded numerous fossil holdings that include the world's most complete Stegosaurus and Camarasaurus, which are on exhibit, respectively, at the London National History Museum and the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Japan.. Stan was a NCAA Division I "Elite Eight" Basketball player at Idaho State University and an Italian Basketball Association player for Amaro Harry's in Bologna. He was the Captain of a U.S. Basketball Team, which competed in the International Invitational Basketball Tournament held in Bologna, Italy in 1978. He has served on diverse boards including the WV Independent Colleges & Universities, Pittsburgh YMCA Family Camp, Mercy Center of N.J. and Idaho State University's Alumni Board of Directors. Stan was politically active in the 1990's serving as the West Virginia Republican State Committee Finance Chairman and campaigning as the West Virginia U.S. Senate Republican Nominee in 1994, against Robert C. Byrd. Stan's education includes a BA in American Studies, BS in Zoology, MA in Rhetorical Theory & Historic Public Address and a PhD Candidacy in Mass Communications and Marketing. He attended, respectively, St. Peter's College, Idaho State University and The Pennsylvania State University.