Enjoy your uniquely Fayetteville experience with a short walk to UofA’s Old Main, Dickson St & favorite dining, sipping, shopping, entertainment, bike trails & more! 🐗🎶🚲🛍🎭️ Check out our page over the next few months to see our exciting and (sometimes challenging) progress at the ca. 1900 Henry D. We're highlighting this adorable vintage house's fascinating connection to University of Ark
ansas history, while enhancing it with modern amenities, We want guests to feel welcome, relaxed and comfortable! In coming months, visit our website (under construction) to check availability, get details and view rates. About Henry Doughty Tovey...
Professor Henry Tovey, the founder of the University of Arkansas Music Department, was born on January 26, 1884, in New Boston, Illinois. In 1908, he came to the University of Arkansas, where he developed and served as chair of the music department until his death in 1933, at 49 years old.
- 1909: Tovey composed the University of Arkansas Alma Mater (a private recording of Tovey playing the Alma Mater on the organ in the Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago is currently housed in the Arkansas Alumni Center).
- 1913: The "University of Arkansas Fight Song", commonly abbreviated to "Arkansas Fight", is the primary fight song of the athletics teams of the University of Arkansas. The words and tune to the song were written by William Edwin Douglass, a student at the time, and instrumentation and chords were added by Henry D. A larger than-life renaissance man, renowned musicologist and a talented pianist, Tovey served as an accompanist to the opera singers Mary Gardner and Ernestine Roessler Schumann-Heink. He worked to standardize the music education programs of Arkansas high schools, sending them selected sets of records, articles, and photos of performers from his extensive private collection. He founded the Arkansas State Music Teachers Association, was vice-president of the National Association of Presidents of State Music Teachers Associations, and served as a member of the National Board of Music. Active in the community, Rotary Club No. 829 was organized in Fayetteville in 1921 with Henry D. Reference: ArchivesSpace at the University of Arkansas. Retrieved January 16, 2021, from https://uark.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/2/resources/1359
Interested in learning more about Henry Doughty Tovey's contributions to the University of Arkansas, the state and region? Here are a few great places to check out his contributions while you're visiting:
- University of Arkansas Mullins Library Special Collections
- Fayetteville Public Library
- The Shiloh Museum
- City of Fayetteville, 3rd Floor has a photo of Henry Tovey riding in his car during a 1920's "Pig Parade"
