Founded by Robert Klark Graham, the repository was dubbed the "Nobel prize sperm bank" by media reports at the time.
Other donors were recruited from among the ranks of scientists and academics Graham and his assistant, Paul Smith, considered to be "the future Nobel laureates".
Paul Smith was charged with recruiting new donors, and he traveled throughout California, focusing mainly on college campuses, in search of volunteers.
[1] One donor named Jason Kaiser, known as Orange Red at the repository, was featured in the 2003 documentary along with Paul Kisak.
The documentary briefly touched upon Kaiser's viewpoints at the time, and reunited him with three of the nine children that reputedly had resulted from his donations.
The program also featured discussion from another donor, University of Central Oklahoma biology professor James Bidlack.
[6] The Big Bang Theory's pilot episode satirizes the repository when Leonard and Sheldon visit the "high-IQ sperm bank," intending to donate specimens, only to leave after Sheldon suffers a moral crisis over committing "genetic fraud" by donating sperm that may not produce the promised genius offspring.
[8] The German novel Fast genial ("Almost Genius") by Benedict Wells tells the story of a fictitious child produced by the sperm bank, who searches for his biological father.