SNAPSHOTS
Pat Carrione has been pro-
moted to president of S & S
United .
Carrione has been in charge of
the Vending and Coin-Operated
Amusement Division s of the S & S
Companies for many years and
ha s been affiliated with S & S
si nce 1941 . He is a past president
of the Southern Connecticut
Operators Association .
Steve Blattspieler has been
promoted to the newly-created
position of vice president of sales
for Bally Midway.
In this new position, Blattspieler
is re sponsible for the direction of
Ball y Midwa y's sales group and
o verall sales performance, as well
as invol vement with Bally Mid-
wa y's network of distributors, the
company's parts, service, adver-
tising, and marketing activities.
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Bob Breither has joined the
Seeburg Phonograph Corpora-
tion as its director of sales.
Breither was formerly Stern ' s
director of sales. " As much as I
enjoyed my a~sociation with
everyone at Stern, the challenge
of carrying the Seeburg flag once
again was too tempting to pass,"
Breither wrote in a letter to Play
Meter. From 1961 to 1977, Breither
was Seeburg' s vice president of
vending sales.
Jack Gordon , formerly with
Sega and IGT, has also rejoined
Seeburg as its West Coast con-
sultant. Gordon was formerly
president of Seeburg in the 1960s.
Mel Kaufman has joined U.S. Billiards and K Enterprises and Len
Schneller has been promoted to marketing manager for the firms.
Kaufman is sales manager for the companies. " I' ve been in the
industry for 37 years and always wanted to be with a manufacturer,"
Kaufman said , explaining the move. "They have a product I am very
excited about-Superba/1. I think it has a place in the industry." He
worked with Betson Enterprises in New Jersey for 11 years.
PLAY METER. September 15, 1984