May

by Hla Min

Updated : May 2025

Background

• 3rd month of old Roman Calendar
• 5th month of Gregorian Calendar
• It has 31 days

Events

May 1

• May Day (in several countries)

Mother’s Day (USA)

• Second Sunday of May

Matric exam in May 1963

• Final exams are usually held in March.
• However, the Matric only exam was held in May 1963. It was partly due to the second HSF exam for Rangoon Division in August 1962.
• In the Matriculation exam in 1963, the students from St. Paul’s High School had five in the Top Five, seven in the Top Ten, and ten in the Top Twenty

The standings were

• Khin Maung U (George) : First in the whole of Burma
• Min Oo (Kenneth) : 2nd
• Myo San (Freddie, GBNF) : 3rd
• Nyunt Wai (Victor) : 4th
• Thein Wai : 5th
• Hla Min : 7th
• Aung Kyaw Zaw (Johnny) : 9th
• Maung Maung Kyi (GBNF) : 11th
• Aung Thu Yein (Brownie, GBNF) : 13th
• Khin Maung Zaw (Frank) : 17th

Of the ten,

• Six chose Medicine
• Three choose Engineering
• One chose Mathematics

The scholarship holders were

• presented with certificates and awards at the Assembly Hall of SPHS
• invited by the Old Paulians’ Association to attend the Annual Dinner††

Name of a Girl / Woman

• May Saw Lwin
• May Win Maung

Saying

• April showers bring May flowers.