The hall was built using funds donated by and named after Dr. D. K. Pearsons, a
Quaker man from
Pawnee, Illinois. Pearsons had once passed through Beloit on the way to
Janesville, Wisconsin and saw the college being built. He was so affected by the sight that it inspired him to donate $100,000 to the school nearly forty years later. The hall was used as the school's science center until 1968. Currently, the hall houses meeting rooms, dining facilities, student lounges, student service offices, a mailroom, a radio station, a computer and printing lounge, student government, publication offices, and Grace's Place. It was officially renamed the Jeffris-Wood Campus Center, named after attorney and business man Pierpont J. E. Wood and his wife, Helen Jeffris Wood. On campus, it is still generally referred to as Pearsons Hall. == Renovations ==