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Seeburg
appoints
Stroll
Edward Wiler
Jack Manning
Two join Rowe International
Edward A . W iler, marketing ex-
ecutive with Rowe Internatiollal,
Inc. in the early 1960s, has rejoir ,ed
the firm as vice president - sal3s,
according to Merrill Krakauer, prf:si-
dent of the company. Wiler's
experience includes sales and mar-
keting management with vending
manufacturers as well as with
national operating firms .
As director of advertising and
sales promotion , he supervised
Marketing Services for RMI (then
Rudd Melikian , Inc .) between 1953
and 1959. Between 1959 and 1964
he had the same responsibilities
with Rowe .
He held the position of manager
of marketing services for Servoma-
tion Corporation from 1964 to 1969
and then joined Interstate United as
vice president marketing. In 1972 he
joined The Cornelius Company as
vice president and was later named
executive vice president of the
Minnesota-based manufacturer of
beverage dispensing equipment.
Minnesota-based manutacturer ot
beverage dispensing equipment .
From 1974 until joining Rowe,
Wiler was Vice President for Schae-
fer Corporation, a Sunbeam subsid-
iary. In 1975 he was also named
President and a Director of Schae-
fer's Canadian subsidiary .
In a second appointment, W .J .
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(Jack) Manning , Jr . has joined
Rowe International, Inc. as vice
president distributor operations.
Manning brings seasoned indus-
try experience to Rowe . Since 1968
he has been vice president market -
ing for Autoviable Services Incorpo-
rated. He was also a member of
Autoviable 's board of directors.
From 1964 until joining Auto-
viable , Manning had been corporate
vice president and director of
marketing for UMC Industries, Inc .
UMC is the parent company of
several firms in the vending industry
and has other domestic and foreign
operations in varying fields.
Manning had 15 years of experi-
ence in automatic merchandising
prior to joining UMC . In 1949 he
joined RMI (then Rudd-Melikian,
Inc .) as general sales manager . In
1955 he was named vice president
marketing of the firm. His experi-
ence with RMI included member-
ship on the board of directors.
Manning has been active in both
industry and marketing roles . He
was a director of NAMA from 1960
to 1966 and served as the associa -
tion's president in his last year on
the board. He has been a trustee of
Syracuse University's Graduate
School of Sales Management and
Marketing and was an Associate
Faculty Member from 1957 to 1969.
The Seeburg Corporation of
Delaware recently announced the
appointment of Michael R. Stroll as
president of its wholly-owned sub-
sidiary, Williams Electronics, Inc.
Williams is a leading manufacturer
of flipper games and shuffle alleys.
Prior to the assumption of his
current duties, Stroll, in his capacity
as vice president - technology of
Seeburg , directed the efforts of
Seeburg 's advanced technology
team in the successful development
of Williams' solid-state flipper
games.
Williams' first entry into the
solid-state flipper game market, Hot
Tip, has been successfully field
tested and full production of that
game is scheduled to commence in
the near future .
Before joining Seeburg , Stroll
was employed as manager of
Systems Development, Micropro-
cessors with National Semicon-
ductor Corp . of Santa Clara,
California. Stroll was also Director
of Terminal
Development for
SWEDA International , Morristown,
New Jersey.
December, 1977, PLAYMETER