1ST BABY BORN AS RESULT OF GENIUS' SPERM BANK
Author: Associated Press
Date: Tuesday, June 22, 1982
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Section: RUN OF PAPER
A Phoenix, Ariz., woman is the mother of the first baby born as a result of a
sperm bank that specializes in the seed of scientific geniuses, according to
published reports.
"We're happy to have her," Joyce Kowalski said in a brief telephone
interview yesterday with the Los Angeles Times.
The name of the parents had been withheld by the Repository for Seminal
Choice, the Escondido, Calif., facility which furnished the sperm.
But the Times reported that John and Joyce Kowalski were paid $20,000 by
the National Enquirer for a story which appeared yesterday in that tabloid,
based in Lantana, Florida.
Mrs. Kowalski, whose daughter Victoria was born April 21, told the Times:
"I'm scared to say anything. I've never dealt with the press before. There's a
burp. I was waiting for that burp. I've been feeding her and burping her."
The sperm was donated by "one of the brightest mathematicians in the
business - this is his first offspring," a spokesman for the Repository for
Germinal Choice said yesterday, adding "I could tell you more, but it would
allow his friends to identify him."
The spokesman, who asks that he also remain unidentified, went on to say
that the mathematician-donor's IQ "is over 200, by the way - measured when he
was a child. He's a very clever cookie," a man in his 30s who teaches at a
major university.
A wealthy manufacturer, Robert K. Graham, founded the sperm bank in 1979,
saying that bright women could give birth to mentally improved babies by being
inseminated with sperm from Nobel Prize winners and other highly intelligent
scientists.
Graham, 75, recently said that about 20 prominent scientists have made
donations. William B. Shockley, the 1956 winner in physics, is the only Nobel
laureate to acknowledge publicly that he contributed to the sperm bank.
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