Gerald DeGroot

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Gerald DeGroot

Portrayed by Michael Gilday

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"Orientation" (video)

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Michigan, USA

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Founder of the DHARMA Initiative

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Gerald DeGroot is the co-founder of the DHARMA Initiative, with his wife Karen DeGroot.

1 Before The DHARMA Initiative
2 Founding The DHARMA Initiative
3 After The DHARMA Initiative
4 Trivia
5 Name reference

Before The DHARMA Initiative

They both were doctoral candidates at the University of Michigan, as seen in the Swan and Pearl Orientation films.

Founding The DHARMA Initiative

The DeGroots from the Pearl Orientation Video.

In 1970, Gerald and Karen DeGroot founded the DHARMA Initiative. It was, and may still be, financially backed by Danish industrialist and munitions magnate Alvar Hanso and his Hanso Foundation. The alleged purpose of the Initiative was to create "a large-scale communal research compound where scientists and free-thinkers from around the globe could pursue research in meteorology, psychology, parapsychology, zoology, and electromagnetism"

After The DHARMA Initiative

According to Thomas Mittlewerk, the DHARMA Initiative "failed". The whereabouts of this couple are unknown today but many theories have surfaced.

Trivia

Gerald is seen briefly in the Room 23 video, wearing goggles. ("Not in Portland")

Name reference

There is an accomplished author by the name of Gerard DeGroot. He published a number of articles on the First World War.
There was a Dutch novelist, philosopher and jurist named Hugo de Groot (lat. Grotius 1583–1645). [1]
There was a chess master and psychologist by the name of Adriaan de Groot. He conducted many psychological chess experiments. He broke the thought process of choosing a move into 4 stages, the first of which being the 'orientation' phase. [2]
There was a famous Sinologist by the name of Jan Jakob Maria de Groot (Pen name J.J.M. de Groot) He was essentially a historian of religion. http://www.umass.edu/wsp/sinology/persons/degroot.html