Born June 9th, 1906 in Harbor Springs, MI
which was a resort town for Business
CEOs (White only)
 Father: Local Dentist who was also an
inventor and tinkerer
 Growing up: Fawned over the famous
people and was a golf caddy for many.
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Dad wanted him to be a dentist, but he
wanted to be the next big singer.
 Studied Music for 8 years at U-Michigan.
 Moved to New York in 1932 but blew the
audition.
 Realized he needed to be a different job
and started studying optometry
 He like glasses because they were a
gadget that he could tinker with.
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Worked for Bausch & Lomb during WWII
to improve artillery scopes and
binoculars.
 Became a salesman after the war, but
hated it.
 Also hated how glasses were made of
glass and were so fragile
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Determined to be rich, he created
Armorlite, where he perfected plastic
lenses in 1947.
 Went on to help perfect contacts,
antireflective coating for lenses, UVprotective lenses, etc.
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Had 8 children from 4 women.
 Was married to 3 women.
 The third, Marta Ve Everton, 21 years
younger, was exactly who he was
looking for.
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Believed in the idea of Eugenics, which is
creating the perfect race.
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Felt that positive Eugenics was the right
way to go by spreading the genius that is
in the gene pool.
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Originally was going to create his own
nation for geniuses to live to create the
perfect research society.
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The idea fell through.
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His Childhood hero, Ephriam Shay was a
famous inventor who Graham thought
died childless when Graham was 10.
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Graham never knew he was wrong.
Graham met a man in 1963 named
Hermann Muller, a Nobel Scientist famed
for discovering x-rays cause genetic
mutations.
Muller felt America was being over-run by
people with inferior IQ and genetics, an
idea that Graham shared.
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Graham and Muller agreed to start the
Hermann J. Muller Repository of Germinal
Choice to store and pass on the seeds of
“outstanding individuals” who had “high
intelligence and cooperative.”
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Muller wanted to wait until everything
was ready rather than hurry and give
people the wrong impression.
Graham agreed, even though he
wanted changes right away.
 Muller also wanted a lot of restrictions on
the sperm as well, in which it’s freely
given and that it can’t be used until 25
years after the death of the donor to fully
judge how much of an impact the
individual had.
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In 1967, Muller died, leaving Graham
able to do whatever he wanted.
 Charted the Hermann J. Muller
Repository of Germinal Choice in 1971.
 Officially started collecting sperm in
1976.
 Sold Armorlite for $70 Million in 1978 to
fund the sperm bank.
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Graham would send flattering letters to
Nobel Laureates.
 With any returned interest, he would
follow up with many phone calls saying
how much more they can benefit
humanity.
 After he got them hooked, he and his
assistant, Stephan Broder (a technician),
would meet them to collect the sample.
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Very few Nobel Laureates were
interested, so Graham branched out.
 Started taking successful, healthy, and
almost always White men.
 He also took people who were on the
rise and, in one situation, the son of a
Nobel Laureate.
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Originally, Graham would meet the
donor and collect a sample directly.
 Eventually, it became feasible for him to
collect sperm through the mail, so long
as proper pre-cautions were made.
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The sperm itself would be in a test-tube
with a mixture to prevent it from freezing
solid in a vat of liquid nitrogen.
One of the biggest problems that
Graham had was the number of donors
was extremely small.
 He started with only 3 (!!) donors.
 Many of the people he approached
were uninterested or had a vasectomy.
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Graham had the opposite issue with
applicants.
 Within a very short amount of time, he
had thousands of applicants!
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Graham had money can could flatter
the men, but didn’t know how to run a
sperm bank.
 Workers had no filing system and
wouldn’t always file information.
 Once, they were found to use the same
identifying color to identify two donors.
(Donor Orange)
 Later fixed when a filer was hired.
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The first child born: Victoria Kowalski was
born and then thrust into the media
spotlight.
 The media then discovered that her
parents were newly released convicted
felons who ran scams for money and
often harassed their previous children if
they didn’t reach their exceedingly lofty
expectations.
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Shockey was an original Nobel Laureate
(created transistors) donor.
 Was exceedingly arrogant and smug.
 Also was a known racist for he thought
blacks were not as intelligent as whites.
 Made the Genius Sperm Bank into a
national laughing stock.
 Only “confirmed” public donor.
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Older gentleman
 Was known for being exceptionally polite
and friendly. Often said something was
“pleasing.”
 Exceptionally hard working and lived
through work.
 Sired multiple children through the
Genius Sperm Bank.
 Bonded with child Joy.
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Baby Joy was given the chance to meet
her Donor Father when she was one.
 Was able to meet him again later in life.
 Joy was extremely intelligent and
extraverted.
 Loved to dance and exceptionally
gifted in Ballet.
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Known as Jeremy
Donated by lying about his IQ.
Was a med-student when donated but
didn’t practice medicine.
Was openly a slob, though charismatic.
Knowingly fathered many children through
sex and sperm bank.
“X children by Y women,” and neither
number was small.
Only openly looked after 2 of his children.
Exceptionally gifted.
 Classical Pianist
 Aspired to be a Marine Biologist
 Loved Computers and chess
 Extremely hard-working
 Realized Donor Coral wasn’t who he
claimed to be from the Genius Sperm
Bank and refused to see him.
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Loves to play video games.
 Was taking 19 credits at college with a
3.8 GPA at 17.
 Tom also loves Insane Clown Posse, and
created a rap group with friends of his.
 Openly admitted to taking therapy after
friend attempted suicide
 Has a child, named Darian, with his
girlfriend (eventually wife) Lana, when
they were both 17.
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While there were dozens of other donors,
none came forward with their real name
to admit they were donors.
 It was rumored that Graham had
persuaded Jonas Salk, the creator of the
polio vaccine, to be an original donor
but this was never verified.
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Graham died in 1998.
 While there was money to keep the bank
going, Graham’s children had no interest
running the bank.
 It closed its doors in 1999.
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While there were other sperm banks that
were more used and successful, they
started changing their donor
requirements to be more strict.
 Started caring more about health of
donor instead of just getting their sperm.
 Now, it’s very difficult to receive the offer
to donate.
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The children were found to be often be
distinctly different than their genius
fathers.
 The genes that were expressed were tied
closely to how their mothers raised them.
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Would you donate to or use the sperm
bank for yourself?
 One of the requirements that Muller
wanted was to have to wait until 25
years after the donor’s death to
determine their worth. Do you think that
was something Graham should have
done to avoid a “Donor Coral” situation?
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Rap-up video one
 Rap-up video two
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