Lifetime Service Robert "Bob" Fulk grew up in Moweaqua, Illinois and attended Moweaqua High School. A small (less than 2,000 residents) farming community in central Illinois, Moweaqua's culture help foster the tough, hard-nosed work ethic of Robert. Upon his high school graduation, Bob enrolled at Eastern Illinois University where he earned seven Varsity letters while participating in both football and wrestling. Bob was a three-time NCAA National Tournament Qualifier. He also was an All-Conference football player. Bob began his scholastic coaching career in Urbana, He moved on to Kankakee and then to Proviso West. Ultimately he found his niche in Carol Stream, Illinois at the newly opened Glenbard North High School "” the year was 1968. Bob, as the school's first Head Wrestling Coach, would be given the opportunity to create a wrestling program from scratch. He spent the next nineteen years creating and shaping his wrestling program. Somewhere in his creative genes Bob devised this "symbol" of the Glenbard North Panthers. It was a simple, yet secretive, "Gold Dot." To this very day that "Gold Dot" is legendary in Illinois wrestling circles. In those nineteen seasons the Panthers of Glenbard North would produce thirty-nine State Qualifiers, twenty State Placewinners and two individual State Champions. Between 1979 and 1983 Bob's Black and Gold Panthers had a streak of sixty-eight consecutive dual meet victories "” fourth longest winning streak in Illinois history. His teams have finished second in the IHSA State Tournament twice and third in IHSA State Tournament once. Bob has also spent numerous summers working with Team Illinois as it prepared for the rigors of the Junior National Wrestling Championships. In 1972 Bob was the Assistant Coach for the Junior Pan-American Team to Mexico City. For his contributions to the school and the community, in 1978, the citizens of Carol Stream named Bob as its Citizen of the Year. The Illinois Wrestling Coaches and Officials inducted Bob into its Hall of Fame in 1985. In 1994 the IWCOA honored Bob as a Grand Marshal for the Individual IHSA State Finals. In 2009 the IWCOA bestowed upon Bob its prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award.