SFA Story: The History of Stephen F. Austin State University

The SFA Campus

Photo Gallery: The Aikman Gym, 1924-75

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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