Dr. Hendrik Otto R. van Tuyll van Serooskerken

He invited me into his home, a little apartment I remember from its warm smell of dinner fried in olive oil. I was 20 and my best friend and I would drive in his little mg from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham to visit him in his upper floor apartment and we´d sit in the doctor´s living room and talk about the beatitudes and the parables, and I remember him talking about the bridesmaids and how never to hide your light and about organ music and Kant-so many important thoughts, but his laughter and...

A wonderfull teacher.

I have meet knowone that has a greater positive impact on my life than Dr. Van Tuyll. I doutbt I ever will.

Dr Van Guysl not only expanded my mind but also my heart. He had the kindest presence I have ever experienced.

Dear Dr. Van Tuyll,
I want to share some thoughts of you with my many fellow classmates and your family about you, all the while listening to two of your favorite organs, the 1928 E.M. Skinner organ in Woolsey Hall at Yale University (just a few opus numbers away from the Palmer Hall Skinner organ), and the 1890 Cavaille-Coll instrument at the Abbey of St. Ouen, in Rouen, France.
You and I travelled a long, elliptical orbit over the 37 years I had known you. Sometimes close, sometimes...

Dr. Van Tuyll was my professor and mentor at the University of Montevallo from 1973-1976. He was a very caring gentleman always willing to help his students move forward. I can still imagine him rapidly walking in the evenings with his umbrella swinging at 90 degree angles with each step as he exercised his dog, Bodo.

Dr. Van Tuyll will be missed by many, but his works and inspiration never forgotten.