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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

Artist completes Hencken portrait

Artist completes Hencken portrait

The south wall of the 1895 room in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union is decorated with portraits of past Eastern presidents. Soon, Lou Hencken will join them. Seth Miller/The Daily Eastern News

Artist completes Hencken portrait

If you have ever walked through the front door of Old Main, you may have noticed the portraits of Eastern president’s lining the walls without giving them much thought. But if you look closer you will see more than decorative oil paintings: you will get a glimpse of the faces and personalities of Eastern’s past; a brief and telling history lesson of the individuals that helped shape the institution into what it is today.

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