The Johns Hopkins University board of trustees has elected eight new members, who joined the board July 1. University trustees serve six-year terms, with the exception of young trustees, who are elected for four-year terms.

New board members are Leonard Abramson, consultant and private investor and former principal executive officer of U.S. Healthcare, in Blue Bell, Pa.; R. Christopher Hoehn-Saric, chairman and CEO of Sylvan Learning Systems, in Baltimore; Kweisi Mfume (MLA, '84), president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in Baltimore; Wayne Schelle, chairman of American Personal Communications/PCS Technology and Phone, in Baltimore; Paula Boggs, vice president and senior deputy general counsel at Dell Computer Corp., of Dallas; Steven Reynolds, executive vice president and chief investment officer for equities at Scudder Kemper Investments, in Chicago; Iredell Waddell Iglehart III, instructor of medicine and active staff in the Department of Rheumatology, School of Medicine; and young trustee Matthew Schernecke (A&S, '98), a history of science, medicine and technology major, from Philadelphia.