Oregon Health & Science University                                         PROFILE FOR SPERM DONOR  #9896

Andrology/Embryology Lab

3303 S.W. Bond Ave., 10^th floor

Portland, OR 97239

Phone:  (503) 418-3700

 

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS

FAMILY AND MEDICAL HISTORY  For each item below, if there is a history of the condition, the condition poses a risk of one percent or less to offspring. The family relationship is indicated.

 

ABBREVIATIONS:                                      M=Mother, or Maternal    S=Sibling                        F,P=Father, or Paternal

N=Nephew or Niece                                              GF, GM=Grandfather, Grandmother

A=Aunt                             U=Uncle                        C=Cousin

 

MEDICAL HISTORY COMMENTS:  The donor’s father (age 72), mother (63), MGM (87), 3 P uncles (64-76), 2 P aunts (70, 74), 2 M aunts (66, 67, lifetime smokers), and 2 brothers (36, 41) are all living and in good to excellent health, except for 1 P aunt suffering from breast cancer and diabetes type I.  1 P uncle had pyelonephritis at age 34.  The MGM has some high blood pressure and cholesterol and is borderline diabetic, but still is very active (golfing, dancing).  Deceased are the PGF (at age 72 of aortic aneurysm), the PGM (at 83 of peritonitis), and the MGF (at 87 of alcoholism).

Donor’s vision:  glasses never required.

Donor’s hearing:  no problems.

Donor’s dental history:  no problems.

 

 

OCCUPATION:  High school teacher

 

RELIGION:  Agnostic

 

Social History:         

                                                                                         

1. Do you have any special talents?

I play guitar, enjoy solving Rubik’s cube and other puzzles, fly-fish, and I can train difficult dogs very well.  I enjoy SCUBA diving, snowboarding and skateboarding, and have always been very well-liked and well-respected by the students I teach.

 

2. Are there any special talents that seem to run in your family? (athletics, music, artistic, etc.)

Music and sports.  I know it probably seems cliché, but it is certainly the case in our family. On the other hand, I wish I could say that my family has a history of excellence in the echelons of academia, or in community leadership.  Before my brothers and I came along, though, college was simply not seen as one of the options, for whatever reason(s).  However, both sides (maternal and paternal) have always excelled in music and sports.

My dad has always been a singer and played guitar, including leading a rock band when he was in his fifties.  He and his family are all very good singers (those were some fun family gatherings in the day!)  Also, he and his brothers excelled in sports.  Two paternal uncles were both wrestling champions, and all the brothers were accomplished in track & field and football.  We have these really amazing old black and white 8 mm movies of them in their teens, on the farm, doing these amazing circus-like partner acrobatics.  I also recall looking through scrapbooks of my uncle dragging three defenders through the mud during a football game.

On my mom’s side, Grandma and Great Grandma both taught themselves how to play piano.  A few years ago, at 84 years of age, Grandma woke me up by playing her accordion at my bedside!   Later that day Grandma took me golfing, and she beat me!!  This doesn’t say much for my golfing abilities, but I have been playing since I was 12.  She’s that good!   Also, a few years back I was visiting my family and somebody mentioned something about one of my uncle’s bowling perfect 300 games.  Another one of Grandma’s brothers was an excellent boxer, and another brother was a semi-pro baseball player, who, as the story goes, turned down an offer to play with the a major league baseball team because he and his wife decided that it was more important to have a stable local family life.

 

3. What are your interests and hobbies?

I enjoy running (I’ve completed a marathon), snowboarding, hiking, fly-fishing, tidepooling, reading, playing guitar, stargazing, skateboarding, and spending time with my wife and our dogs.  I used to coach high school sports, but took a hiatus from that when I began graduate school, and may not return.

 

4. What did you enjoy studying in high school and college?

I attended a liberal arts university, which was a good fit for me because I enjoyed all of my classes in high school and college (the maths, sciences, philosophy, theology, sociology, psychology, history, art, composition, literature, political science, and other electives.)

In the end, though, I had to choose a major.  I chose mathematics, and after earning my B.S. in math, I returned to college to become certified to teach.

 

5. High School GPA  3.5

 

College GPA  For my master’s degree, 3.9.  For my bachelor’s degree, 3.2.               I.Q.  Never tested.

 

6. How would you describe your personality characteristics?

Confident, intelligent, relaxed, funny, compassionate, curious, patient, conscientious, cooperative, calm, reflective, proactive, peace-maker, philosophical, nice, good-natured, ….okay, anybody reading this might be thinking, “what about traits that aren’t so complimentary??’”  So, if I had to be critical of myself (for full disclosure), I might include:  sometimes absent-minded, sometimes in certain situations I’m more shy than I’d prefer to be, I don’t cook enough, and I’d like to procrastinate less.

 

Additional Descriptive Characteristics:

 

Handedness:  Right                                                                           Foot/Shoe Size: 13.5

 

Hairy Chest:  No (we counted 3 chest-hairs last time)                   Hairy:  No                                   

 

Beard Color:  I don’t have a beard, but if I did it would be the same brown color as my head hair.

 

Any Distinguishing Features (Dimples, Cleft Chin, Roman Nose, Freckles, etc.):

I don’t have distinguishing scars, beauty marks, or abnormalities.  Hmmm, high cheek bones, strong jaw bone, good proportions.

 

Acne problems:

Mild to moderate teen-acne, no adult acne.

 

Reactivity/Sensitivity to sun exposure:

No abnormal reactivity.  I tan fairly easily but I use sunscreen religiously.

 

Family Social History:              

 

	Education	Occupation	Interests	Eye color	Hair color	Height	Body Type
PGF	high school	carpenter
PGM	high school	homemaker	cooking and storytelling			5’6”
MGF	high school	heating & A/C	fishing, fixing things, mechanics & practical jokes			5’10”
MGM	high school	homemaker	her grandchildren, playing the accordion, dancing and golf			5’4”
Father	high school	carpenter	singing, guitar, his family, outdoorsman, golf, travel	brown	brown	6’1”
Mother	high school	Government officer	painting, golf, piano, reading, travel, and family	brown	brown	5”4”
Brother	B.A. (Theatre), and Journeyman Carpenter	actor/entrepreneur	hunting, sculpting, acting, sports, & entrepreneurship	green	brown	6’5”
Brother	M.D.	doctor	hunting, sports, raising a family…(in his university’s hall of fame for sports)	brown	brown	6’2”

 

 

                                                            KID PAGE                        

 

1. In general, please describe your childhood.

My childhood was very stable and happy.  We lived in one house my entire childhood, on a dead-end street filled with children.  About a dozen of us played together daily, and grew up together.  My two brothers and I got along very well, and are best friends still.  Our parents kept us very involved in recreational activities (sports, scouting, fishing, summer art and singing classes, recreational leagues, camping, etc.)  We also had a large family on both sides, and we would often come together for grandparent and cousin birthdays, Christmas, Thanksgiving, and other general family gatherings.

 

2. Were there any family members other than your parents and siblings with whom you regularly had contact?

We were close with quite a few extended family members, but my maternal grandma and grandpa were the closest.  They never missed a little league game, track meet, school musical, or anything, really.

Something my brothers and I always looked forward to was spending a weekend with Grandma and Grandpa.  Sometimes we would go together, but the best were the times when we would go alone.  Looking back, those were such special times, just me and my grandparents.  Grandma would wake Gramps and me up to her legendary buttermilk pancakes, shaped into planes, flowers, and our initials.  It would be very, very early, because after breakfast, still in the darkness of pre-dawn, Grandpa and I would gather our tackle-boxes, rods, reels, and tank of gas, and walk quietly down to the lake where his boat was docked.  We’d load up the boat and then leisurely motor across the lake, sipping hot chocolate from our thermoses.  The sun would be rising, a thick fog rolling across the lake as we quietly approached Grandpa’s favorite northern-pike fishing hole by the lily pads.

I remember that when we’d return, Grandma would always be waiting for us by the pier, reading her book, a cooler filled with sandwiches, fruit, and cold soda-pop.

 

3. As a child, what was/were your favorite:            (Please include a reason, or why, if you can.)

Food(s)?        Buttermilk pancakes (Grandma’s specialty!), chocolate ice cream, bananas, lasagna, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and mashed potatoes with gravy.

Color(s)?        Red.  Red bikes, red shirts, red paper, red soda (cherry), the red ornaments, etc.

Toy(s)?           My favorite toys always involved either radios or wheels and pedals.  As for the radios, one received airport and weather channels, one was a clock radio which had an unprecedented left and right speaker, and one was my first walkman headphones stereo.  As for the wheels and pedals, it began with the big wheel & green-machine,  and then evolved into the bicycle.  I also loved my baseball mitt, spinning tops, this windup Evel Knievel motorcycle toy, chess & checkers, and Spirograph.

Indoor game(s)?        Chess, Checkers, Cribbage, Life, Monopoly, Sorry, Chutes and Ladders, Rummy, Uno, Marbles, Battleship, Intellivision, Hide&Seek, and basketball with a nerf ball.

Outdoor game(s)?     Baseball, football, basketball, kick-the-can, bike-tag, wheelie contests, ramp-jumping contests, kickball, and our night-time favorite “I see you” which involved running through several square blocks of the neighborhood engaged in some form of hunt/search/capture routine.

Book(s)?        The first book I remember is some old story about a worm, back in first grade (mostly a picture book.)   I don’t know if it was a classic, but it left quite the impression on me.  Later I loved Where the Wild Things Are, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, the Encyclopedia Brown detective stories, and in 8^th grade I tackled Les Miserables.

Sport(s)?        I grew up playing church-league basketball and little-league baseball.  In high school I participated in football, wrestling, track, and baseball.  I also bowled in teen leagues and father-son leagues up through 8^th grade.

Other activity(s)?       We went through the Scouts system, beginning as Cub Scouts, and later progressing to Weeblos, and then Boy Scouts.  My father was also an avid hunter, so we spent many weekends during my childhood, hunting, fishing, sitting around campfires, swimming in rivers and lakes, and hanging out with friends in a small rural farming town. 

 

4. What is your earliest memory?

Hard to say.  It might be a memory I have of my mother putting me to sleep for an afternoon nap.  I resisted, claiming I wasn’t tired, but when laid down I fell fast asleep.  When I woke up it was time for a peanut butter sandwich on that soft snow-white Wonder Bread that I haven’t had since grade school!  Or maybe it’s one of a summer camping trip, when a lawn dart hit me in the face, scaring everybody, and scarring me (no serious injuries).  Then again, perhaps my first memory is of being at one of our family gatherings on my dad’s side, aunts, uncles, and cousins galore, my grandma’s traditional Slovenian cooking (Strudle, dumplings, Pateca, and jinkofel (spelling?)).  I also have very early memories of a very bright light….because my dad was always filming those get-togethers with a very old 8 mm movie camera, and it required that he hold an extremely bright and hot light in one hand, the camera in the other.

 

5. What did you do during the summers?

Summer Recreation at the local grade school, camping trips, little league baseball, fishing weekends with Grandma and Grandpa, boy scouts, week-long summer camps and just hanging out with the neighborhood kids, usually playing sports, games, and doing things with our bikes.

 

6. Are there any Anew@ technologies you remember becoming available during your childhood which now are commonplace in our society, or which have now been replaced by a newer technology?

The first calculator we had, a four function one, was very bulky, had a red LED display on a black background, and needed to be plugged into the wall.   Similarly, all telephones back then had the turn-dial on them: the phones with buttons to press didn’t come out until I was in junior high school, maybe.

Somewhere during my childhood the microwave oven arrived, but I don’t remember that we ever got one until after graduating high school.

Cable television was very new.  The primary television set we had, a large and old RCA, had a very strange dialing mechanism, and for a long time the channels were the four major stations, brought into our house with the rabbit-ear antenna.  When cable arrived it was pretty exciting.  MTV was huge back then, when it actually played music videos.

We had Pong, and so when Intellivision came out, it felt like we were the Jetson’s.  I also remember my first Walkman headset radio player.  I was in heaven with that thing.  Another invention that happened when I was in the early grades was that of the urethane skateboarding wheel.  The skateboards we had around used clay wheels.  The urethane wheels were a pretty significant development, I remember, though I never became an avid skateboarder.

Later, when I was in high school, personal computers began showing up.  I learned programming in high school with the most advanced mass-produced computer of the time: the Apple IIE.  I’m pretty sure my calculator, today, has more computing power than this old desktop had back in the 1980’s.

 

7. Did you enjoy school as a child?  Do you have any memories of teachers that influenced you, or that you especially liked (or disliked)?

I loved school.  My first favorite teacher was my kindergarten teacher.  I have quite a few memories from that year, but the one that is most vivid is when she liked one of my paintings so much, she asked if she could please have it for herself b/c she wanted to hang it up on her refrigerator.  I remember feeling great satisfaction and pride at that moment.  I also remember trying to duplicate that painting, and feeling frustrated at not being able to.

School was great fun.  I loved all of my classes, and I feel very lucky to have had so many dedicated teachers.  I have always enjoyed all of the subjects, the art classes, the music classes, lunch, recess… it was all a great joy for me.

My parents and teachers, together, helped to foster in me a love for learning, and a great deal of confidence in myself, beginning in kindergarten and carrying all the way through today.  I have memories from each grade, too many to include here.  I was never needy or at risk, so I don’t have a story about that one teacher who reached out and changed my life.  However, many of my teachers were very enthusiastic and inspiring, and I credit them all with affecting my life in a very profound way.

 

8. Did you have chores or tasks that you were regularly expected to do?

Of course!  The chores rotated, though, between me and my brothers.  We were always responsible for doing the dishes after dinner.  Additionally, once a week we all got together and straightened, vacuumed, dusted, and cleaned the bathrooms.  We also took turns taking out the trash, and helping dad with yard work and washing the car.

 

9. Any other recollections of importance that come to mind?

Of course.  The first kiss, some painful accidents, tape-recording my great grandmother’s stories of growing up with Native Americans, beginning band in the sixth grade, writing my first book about a boxing mouse who became the world champion with the help of Rocky Marciano!   I’d guess that most any one’s childhood would fill an entire book with recollections of importance, so I’ll stop here.