Named Athletic Director Lorraine Braman Barbarash, daughter of Maurice and May Braman of Beach Road in Apalachin, is the new athletic director of the Washingtonville, New York, school district. Lorraine, of Chester, New York, was one of eight sitting athletic directors who applied for the job. She came from the Ossining, New York, school district as the athletic director for the last two years.
 Barbarash spent 21 years at George Wingate High School in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. She began as a substitute in 1978 and worked her way up to assistant principal for health and physical education in 1983. The population of Wingate was 3,000 students.
 She formed the George Wingate girls soccer program in 1982. In 1986, she became the first female to coach boy's soccer in the New York City area. She quit coaching in 1996 because of increasing job demands and the fact that her son, David, would be an opposing player.
 She and her husband, Randy, an assistant principal at Clarkston South in East Nyack, New York, moved to Washingtonville when she got the Ossining job.
 Lorraine graduated from Owego Free Academy in 1971. She attended college at Keuka College and graduated from Ashland College in Ashland, Ohio. She received her Masters Degree from Kings College in New Jersey.