Moment in Time (originally submitted to ThisWeek News for publication July 26, 2007)

This photo, circa 1922, was taken from a card labeled "Merry Christmas Dude, from the Lindenbergs". Dude, shown sitting in front holding the stuffed toy, was Dude (Frank) Higgs, who lived on Lincoln Road. The Lindenbergs were from a prominent Marble Cliff family that lived in what was known as the Country Club Subdivision, now Tarpy Woods. Dude Higgs later was a pilot with the Chinese National Aviation Company, and was killed in a crash in 1945 while flying to Shanghai. He was the model for the character Dude Hennick from a popular comic strip "Terry and the Pirates" created by his friend and OSU fraternity brother Milton Caniff. The last strip that Dude was in was published on Christmas Day in 1945, and the original is in the Cartoon Research Library collection at OSU.