Close to 100 family members, friends, and boosters showed up to honor the illustrious achievements of 10 former Dragon stars who were inducted into the Duxbury High School Hall of Fame. Little did they know, however, they would also get a hilarious comedy show as part of the evening.

It was a night that included listening to the tape of Bill Wilhelm describing the greatest athletic event in the history of DHS, and also a night when Coach Reggie Clark established himself as a stand-up comic with stories that had the audience in stitches.

The evening started with an introduction by Massachusetts AD of The Year, Thom Holdgate, who welcomed the crowd and turned the evening over to MC Bill Wilhelm of WATD.

After an excellent dinner provided by the staff at the Plymouth Country Club, Wilhelm got the festivities started by introducing Mickey Curley (DHS ’94), one of the stars of Wilhelm’s award-winning tape made during Duxbury’s historic come-from-behind win over Lincoln-Sudbury High School in the old Boston Garden in 1994 that catapulted the Dragons to the Division II state crown.

Curley was followed to the podium by Eric Arnold (’78), a former Massachusetts state and New England wrestling champion, as well as a former state discus champion, who still holds the DHS shot put record at 57’11”.

The Bolster brothers, Andy (’77) and Kent (’78), were next and seemed thrilled to be back in town following their trips up from Virginia and Pennsylvania. They could have spoken for an hour about their accomplishments on the track and in life after college as Green Berets, but instead concentrated on thanking their coaches for developing them into state champions in the discus.

The first DHS football player was inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame, as David Seger (DHS ’99), who held the school’s rushing record and led the Dragons to their first Super Bowl appearance in 1998, thanked former Coach Don Dellorco and Assistant Coach John Taglieri for all their efforts in developing him as a player.

Matt Cushing (DHS ’84) was one of two Parade Magazine All-Americans who was inducted Saturday night, as he scrapped his acceptance speech notes on the advice of his Wheaton College players and winged it. Praising his teammates and Duxbury neighbors for his emergence as a soccer star under Coach Foster Cass, the current college coach was on three Eastern Mass. championships teams and had a 65-1 record during his Duxbury career.

The lovely Jill Maxwell (’95), another Parade All-American and captain of the University of Virginia women’s soccer team, battled knee injuries during her UVA career but still managed to be named the Offensive MVP and Unsung Hero for the Cavaliers. This came after a career at DHS where she was the all-time career point leader and a member of the 1994 state champion soccer team that won the title on the same afternoon as the boys at Worcester Polytech.

Jane Fleming, standing in for her daughter Tory Fleming, who is considered the school’s greatest female swimmer, accepted her plaque and emphasized how much her daughter enjoyed the camaraderie of high school swimming and the fun she had doing it outside of USA swimming.

Former tennis Coach Faith Henaghan accepted the award for her former player and current Duxbury resident Linda Hartz (’80).

With nine of the 10 recipients back in their seats, they weren’t in them for long once Coach Reggie Clark took the podium. The former basketball coach, who is now a minister in Maine, and who took the Dragons to the Division II state title in 1989 with Billy Curley on board, fiddled with his papers as he prepared to speak to the audience.

Once he got rolling with stories of his part in DHS lore, the audience was howling, providing a fitting way to cap an evening that provided for so many memories for the greats of DHS athletics.