Preinkert Hall
The cornerstone was laid June 8, 1931, and the building was dedicated December 1, 1931. Named for Alma H. Preinkert, Registrar, 1919-1954, by action of the Board of Regents on March 12, 1954. Major Howard W. Cutler of Montgomery County, Maryland, designed the field house. The pool was added in 1951 but was decommissioned in the 1990s. On February 28, 1954, Registrar Alma H. Preinkert and one of her sisters were accosted in their Washington, D.C., home by a knife-wielding robber, and Miss Preinkert was mortally wounded. Her violent death shocked and saddened the campus community, which created a number of memorials in her honor, including renaming the Women's Field House for her. Miss Preinkert's murder was never solved, and her ghost is alleged to haunt the Kappa Delta sorority house, one of the 14 stops on the UMD ghost tour.Â