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Martin L Grass, a Baltimorean who is president and chief operating
officer of
the Rite Aid Corp.; Mary E. Junck, publisher and chief executive officer of The
Baltimore Sun;
and Lila B. Lohr, headmistress of St. Paul's School for Girls in
Brooklandville, Baltimore
County, have been elected to the board of trustees of The Johns Hopkins
Hospital and Johns
Hopkins Health System
Grass has been associated with Rite Aid, the largest retail drug chain
in the United
States, since 1978. He also is vice-chairman and treasurer of Super Rite Foods
Inc., a food
wholesaler and retailer. Both companies are headquartered in Pennsylvania.
Grass serves on the
boards of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and of the
Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra.
The election of Junck continues a tradition in the Baltimore
community: the
publisher and chief executive officer of The Baltimore Sun frequently serves on
the Hopkins
Hospital Board,
Junck was named to The Sun positions in April and assumed her new
positions on
the Times Mirror subsidiary on January 1 of this year. Before that, she had
been publisher and
president since May 1990 at The St. Paul Pioneer Press in Minnesota. She
previously worked on
newspapers in Charlotte, N.C., and Miami.
She has served on United Way and Chamber of Commerce boards in St.
Paul. A
member of the University of Minnesota Foundation Board of Trustees, Junck also
is on the
Board of Visitors at the School of Journalism at the University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Lohr has been headmistress at St. Paul's School for Girls since 1987. Before
that, she was
assistant headmistress at Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, where she became a
teacher in the lower
school in 1969. Later, she served as director of the middle school and then
the upper
school.
Lohr also is president of the board of trustees of the Association of
Independent
Maryland Schools and serves on the board of the Maryland Historical
Society.
"We sincerely appreciate the willingness of these individuals to serve
this
outstanding institution,"
noted H. Furlong Baldwin, Hopkins board chairman. James A. Block, M.D.,
president and chief
executive officer of the hospital and Health System, also paid tribute to the
new board members
and cited "the additional wide-range of diverse business experiences and
backgrounds that they
will bring to the boardroom."