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JOSEPH CARROLLTHE PEDDIE SCHOOLA two year starter for the Falcons at right guard, Joe Carroll was one of head coachFrank deLaurentis’ most dependable players.Still, it’s not slighting Carroll’s football talent to say he accomplished bigger thingsoff the field during his years at Peddie.Carroll was one of 20 high school students in the nation selected to perform graduatelevel research at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab during the summer of 2010. Hehas worked during the school year for class credit and has been asked to return thissummer to a lab dedicated to designing and constructing a small scale nuclear reactorto power the greater Princeton area.“Joe is one of the finest young men and finest young scientists of this year – orany year – at Peddie,” teacher Nicholas Guilbert said. “Joe is the real deal, a greatacademic and personal asset to any college in the country.”An outstanding lacrosse player at Peddie as well, Joe is an outstanding saxophonist who takes time to participate in a varietyof community service activities. Carroll has been part of the Pennswood Village retirement Community and helped at theWoods Services School, Mercer Street Friends, the Morrisville Food bank, and the Fallsington Library.A technical assistant at Newtown Friends School, Carroll has received high honors all four years at Peddie. He is a recipientof the Steven. C. Lundy / Dubois Scholarship for Academic Excellence and earned the Pennsylvania Higher EducationAssistance Agency Merit award as well as the Peddie Excellence in Scientific Research award..KEITH DEARDENTHE PENNINGTON SCHOOLKeith Dearden’s throwing ability brought a new dimension to head coach JerryEure’s offense and kept the Red Raiders as a small school force the last two seasons.Dearden, who transferred to Pennington before his junior year, threw for over2,600 yards and 30 touchdowns in two seasons, breaking all of the school’s majorcareer passing marks. He was all Independence League for two years and was votedOffensive Player of the Year by the league coaches in 2010.He’s also one of the top baseball players in Mercer County and played for Pennington’sstate and Mercer County Tournament championship team as a junior.Dearden has also been a top notch student at Pennington as well as a great ambassadorfor the prep campus. He’s part of the peer leadership program and is a studentrepresentative for the school’s Open House program.Away from school, he has helped a number of youth baseball clinics, volunteered at the Autistic Run at Ewing High, andcoached youth travel basketball teams. He has participated in the Sunshine Foundation’s Operation Dream Lift programand helped raise money for the Sunshine Foundation.“Keith is a great young man and one of those kids who just gets it,” assistant football and head baseball coach Bob McHalesaid. “He has a host of friends and confidants and can light up a room with his personality. He is very personable andrespectful of his teachers. In short, he is the model of a young man that we all wish our students could be.”102011DVCProgram.indd 103/9/11 12:02 PM