DHG-RFG Bi-Bio-ography

DHG was born on the Half Circle Ranch which owned what is now call East LA.

Her first love was barnstorming and she fell in love with a barnstormer and they flew through barns in the 1920’s when DHG was a teenager.

Her first business was silver fox pelts and her customers were big stores in NYC that made their own label fox fur coats.

Her first house in NYC was 7 Sutton Place, and it became so valuable that she sold it and bought 123 East 70th as her second house in NYC.

Then she went to Egypt to be a photographer of Ancient Egypt pyramids and things.

Then after her fascination with the very old she became fascinated by Modern Art and a collector of Hans Hofmann, Joan Miro, Paul Klee, and Philip Martin.

Then she did photo books on Byzantium, Morocco, and the Far East.

She had a good income from stocks she bought when she was in business. It became tax free income because she gave her paintings away to museums (MOMA and Metropolitan Museum of Art).

She worked on several Committees of New York City including the Park Avenue Committee that did the Christmas trees on that Avenue in December, and the Cotillion Committee that did the Plaza, Waldorf, and Essex House Debutant Cotillions every year, and the International Cotillion (mostly daughters of UN diplomats).

Her books sometimes got full window displays at Big Bookstores in NYC.

George Duhamel wrote a poem to preface “Sun, Stones, and Silence” her book on ancient Egypt.

Robert Payne wrote the text for some of her books and Lord Kinross wrote the text for one.

She worked for OSS from 1939 till 1989 — about half a century. She was a source, not an agent, but highly valued as a source, and de-briefed every year at the OSS/CIA office on Washington Square North. She reported on White Russian Emigres, UN People, Oil People, Telephone People, Diamond People, and Van Cleef & Arpels People.

She lived to be 94, and mostly happy all the way through. She was a bit lonely at the end, most of her friends having died off, and not lived to be 94.

She made me go to Institute Le Rosey in Rolle and Gstaad Switzerland, and to Trinity-Pawling a very traditional New England prep school. I was baptized in 1947 at St. James Church on Madison Avenue in NYC, and confirmed by the Anglican Bishop of Lausanne.

My college turned out to be St. John’s College, Annapolis Maryland, and I also got JD, and MBA degrees after that (at Southwestern, and GW, respectively).

My legal career included all the atom bomb people, and most of the nuclear reactor people. I was skilled in particle physics, and the Navy later used that skill to establish the reliability of the test they used for sailors taking drugs. I was able to establish that for the Navy. They paid $16,000 toward my MBA degree, which was money I needed to go to GW.

Now I am retired. I have a patent in Photon-DSP which can be used for ID cards and bank bills.

Photon-DSP is super reliable because it’s not all photons, it’s half digital signal processing. Getting the photons right is very costly. Getting the DSP right is almost impossible. So my seals are super reliable.

RFG JD-MBA
1 August 2025
Hagerstown MD
robert.gary@gmail.com