Welcome  To the Webpage for  Mel Tardy

First Year Advisor and faculty member at The University of Notre Dame!
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Have faith.  Never give up.  Pray without ceasing, but humbly at the foot of the cross.


First Year Student Advising   First Year of Studies         FYS Newsnotes            Peer Advisor info


Clubs I Serve As Faculty Advisor

Voices of Faith Gospel Choir  Voices is a “student-run, faith-led” organization.  Recognition: ND Club of the Year (1999 & 2000); 2001 Program of the Year for winter concert; 2003 Program of the Year for winter concert; plus numerous division-level awards.

 

Perspectives:    New ND/SMC Disabilities Awareness & Support Club



A Light Will Rise in Darkness -- Growing Up Black & Catholic in New Orleans, by Jo Anne Tardy (my mother!)

Now available at local Bookstores or online, including ACTA Publications.   120 pages,    ISBN: 0879463163

 

 

For booking information, click Jo Anne Tardy website or contact Mel Tardy at mtardy@nd.edu.

 

 

                    

Book Signing at the University of Notre Dame Bookstore                               

                                                                                                                                   


New Orleans author, Jo Anne Tardy (now living in California), travels the country to do book readings, presentations and workshops on a variety of topics. 

For booking information, please contact Mel Tardy, Jr. at (574) 243-2743 or mtardy@nd.edu.

 


 

What’s happening at my parish, St. Augustine . . .?

  

 

. . . Youth Ministry and Teen Ministry!!!

 

 

Here, our traveling youth ministry group meets Bishop Joseph Perry of Chicago at the 2006 Black Catholic Men’s Conference in Chicago.  That was last year, when we were just starting out!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Check out our new youth ministry website, our first-ever site for St. Augustine Parish!  St. Augustine Youth Ministry

 


Other Great Links:

 

Xavier University Institute for Black Catholic Studies

The National Black Catholic Congress (NBCC)

Black Catholic Information Mall (BCI Mall)

USCCB Secretariat For African American Catholics (SAAC)

November is Native American Heritage Month (I am part Cherokee and Choctaw!)

Black Alumni of Notre Dame

 

Stand: A Really Good Video for Really Bad Moments

Some old articles I wrote


 

  Website for Greg Tardy, my famous jazz saxophonist brother    (http://www.gregorytardy.com)

 

Check out these highly acclaimed Greg Tardy jazz CD’s: Abundance, Crazy Love, Greg Tardy, The Hidden Light, Serendipity, The Truth, and Steps of Faith (this new 2007 release includes our multi-talented recording artist/author mother, Jo Anne Tardy, singing “Great is Thy Faithfulness”)