The Aikman Gym, 1924-1975
The Aikman Gym Index
1925 Photo  
1926 Photo
  
1929
   1934
The Stone Fort yearbook
of 1925.		   The Stone Fort yearbook
of 1926.		   1929 view of the Austin Building
with the Aikman Gym and
the Power Plant in background.		   1934 picture of the Gym from the
south side.
 
Field Hockey Team   WRC  
Dance in 1937
   1938
Field Hockey Team on the steps
of Aikman in the 1930s.		   The Womens Recreation Center,
built in 1936, sat across Aikman
Drive from the main Gym.		  
Dance in 1937.
  
Aikman Gym in 1938.
 
 
Sawyers   1962   1975 Destruction   Destruction
The Sawyers in 1947 in Aikman.  
Aikman Gym in 1962.
  
Destruction in 1975.
  
Destruction in 1975.
 

Frank S. Aikman was SFA’s first great benefactor.  In 1924 he gave the college $12,000 for the construction of what was later called Aikman Gymnasium.  Aikman, a native of Brooklyn, New York, came to Nacogdoches in 1913 and started  the sucessful Mahdeen Hair Tonic Company with Mr. Conrad Needham. 

 
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