<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/issues/kennedy-townsend-delivers-keynote-address.html" dsn="news"><item_date>06/03/2010 03:13:00 PM</item_date><category_header/><title>Kennedy Townsend delivers keynote address</title><subheader/><description>Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, author and former lieutenant governor of Maryland, delivered the keynote address at the doctoral commencement ceremony in May.</description><author/><photographer> </photographer><image> <img src="/sites/default/files/default_images/diving-eagle_356_0r_0_1_fade_1_0.png" width="900" height="676" alt=""/></image><taxonomy-story-type/><taxonomy-cultural-story-category/><taxonomy-news-sections>Cover Stories</taxonomy-news-sections><taxonomy-college-department>Department of Integrative Studies</taxonomy-college-department><taxonomy-tags/><type>story</type><categories/><relationships/><main-content>Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, author and former lieutenant governor of Maryland, delivered the keynote address at the doctoral commencement ceremony in May.In a second event as part of the IMPACT Lecture Series sponsored by UNT’s Toulouse School of Graduate Studies, she discussed topics in her book, Failing America’s Faithful: How Today’s Churches Mixed God 
With Politics and Lost Their Way.
Townsend, the eldest child of the late U.S. Sen. and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy, is a senior advisor at an international investment firm.        </main-content></item>