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The Daily Eastern News

The student news site of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

The Daily Eastern News

The student news site of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

The Daily Eastern News

Lumpkin Hall is named after Richard Lumpkin, a man who supported Eastern through financial contributions. The building was named after Lumpkin in 1990.

Richard Lumpkin and his namesake hall

Ryan Meyer, Multimedia Reporter November 28, 2021

On Nov. 27, 1990, Illinois’s longest serving governor James Thompson dedicated a new building that would hold Eastern’s College of Business, nestled in between Klehm and Coleman, to Richard Lumpkin. According...

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