Month: May 2025

by Hla Min

Updated : May 2025

U Thet Win (M70, Southern California, USA) posted me the book that was distributed at “Paying respect to [senior] engineers and architects, 75 years or older” ceremony sponsored by Myanmar Engineering Society (MES) on May 6, 2012.

Honorees

1. U Aung Kyi
2. U Aung Kywe
3. U Aung Par Thein
4. U Aung Hla Tun (Saya)
5. U Aung Than
6. U Aye Su
7. U Ba Aye
8. U Ba Chit
9. U Ba Myint (Saya)
10. U Ba Shein
11. U Ba Than (Sayagyi)
12. U Ba Thwin
13. U Bo Gyi (Ashin Pandita)
14. U Bo Kyin
15. U Hla Aye
16. U Hla Thein
17. U Hla Tin
18. U Hla Yee
19. U Kan Aye
20. U Kyi
21. U Kenneth C Po
22. U Khin Aung Kyi (Sayagyi)
23. U Khin Maung
24. U Khin Maung Lin
25. U Khin Maung Aye
26. U Khin Maung Lwin
27. U Khin Maung Yin
28. U Khin Maung
29. U Ko Ko Gyi
30. U Ko Ko Gyi (Part-time Saya)
31. U Ko Ko Than
32. U Kyaw Gyi
33. U Kyaw Myint
34. U Kyaw Thaung
35. U Kyaw Zan
36. U Kyi Khin
37. U Kyin Htwe
38. U Kyu Po
39. U Lay Lwin
40. U Lit Tan Gyi
41. U Maung Maung Htay
42. U Maung Maung Kyaing
43. U Maung Maung
44. U Mya Thein
45. U Myint Pe
46. U Myint Sein (passed away on 21st April, 2012)
47. U Myint Swe
48. U Myint Thein
49. U Myo Kyi
50. U Myo Swe
51. U Nyunt Hlaing
52. U Ohn Thwin
53. U Pe Thein
54. U San Tun Aung
55. Mr. S. Arya (Saya)
56. U San Maung
57. U San Myint
58. U San Yin
59. U San Ya
60. U Saw Bo Ka Naung
61. U Saw Gladstone
62. U Saw George Bu Mu [?]
63. U Saw Hap Block [?]
64. U Saw Maung
65. U Saw Taik Ain
66. U Sein Hlaing
67. U Sein Maung
68. U [Saw] Christopher Maung (Saya)
69. U Shwe Maung
70. U Soe Thein
71. U Soe Thein
72. U Than Aung
73. U Than Aye
74. U Than Lwin
75. U Than Tun
76. U Than Aye
77. U Than Hlaing
78. U Thein Tun
79. U Thein Tun
80. U Tin Aung
81. U Tin Maung Shwe
82. U Tin Maung
83. U Tin U
84. U Tin Tun
85. U Tin Tun
86. U Tin Yee
87. U Tun Kyi
88. U Tun Kyi
89. U Tun Lwin
90. U Tun Thein
91. U Wan Hlaing
92. U Thin Maung
93. U Win Naing
94. U Win Naing
95. U Win Pe
96. U Win Thein

The “notes” differ in length and content.

A few photos and addresses are missing.

Some names are spelled with variations. “na-thut versus ma-thut”.

Update

Sample Advice

Some are now GBNF (Gone But Not Forgotten)

• U Aung Par Thein
• Sayagyi U Khin Aung Kyi
• Saya Mr. S. Arya

• Also known as Jeffrey
• He attended MEHS (Methodist English High School).
• He was a Top student in the Class of EC68.
• He moved to USA.
• He retired as Director.
  
• He passed away of heart failure
• Eldest of six brothers
• Spouse : Daw Thuzar (Former Movie Actor, Sister of Academy Daw May Yu)
• Son : Michael Aung
• Daughter-in-law : Annie
• Grandchildren : 3

Trivia

• Most of his classmates, who passed GCE examination, left Burma to study and/or work overseas.
  Only two chose to attend Rangoon University.
  He was top student in EE and EC classes.
  Anita Aye Pe was selected Luyechun for 2nd MB Jr in the Summer of 1965.

• He suggested the name “BASES” for the association that was co-founded by Saya U Tin Htut, U Tin Htway and David Tun Tin.
  
• Saya U Chin Way was interviewed for a job in Los Angeles. When the interviewers learned that U Chin Way was a saya of their boss (U Tun Aung), there were no more questions.
  
• Two of his cousins (Dolly and Margaret) are spouses of U Kyaw Sint (E Tai, T70, Soccer, Tennis) and U Tin Maung Lay (M69)

U Khin Maung Zaw (KMC, EC76) wrote

U Jeffrey was the classmate of U Aung Khin (U Tar Tu – LA) and U Myint Thein Aung ((U Min Maung – Bellevue/WA/USA)– My son’s God Grand Dad).

• He graduated with B.E. (Electrical Power) in 1966 and joined the Electrical Engineering Department at RIT (Rangoon Institute of Technology).
• He later taught at Assumption University (formerly known as ABAC) in Bangkok, Thailand.
• He wrote about his final year B.E. (Bachelor of Engineering) experience in an article.
  It was published in the Commemorative Issue of “Swel Daw Yeik Sar Saung” for SPZP-2010 (Saya Pu Zwe Pwe in Singapore).
• He became a monk after retirement.
  He managed the Sangha Library.
• Sadly, he passed away.
  He is GBNF (Gone But Not Forgotten)

Health Care

• His former students donated for Saya’s health care.

A Poem in his memory

• Saya U Moe Aung (Tekkatho Moe War) wrote a Kabyar “To the Shwe Duo” lamenting the loss of Saya U Tin Shwe and Saya U Hla Shwe.
• The two sayas with “Shwe” in their names passed away a few months apart.
• I translated the Kabyar.

“ရွှေ နှစ် ရွှေ သို့ “

ရွှေနှစ်ရွှေ…..

ဝေတော့လည်း တူ

ကြွေတော့လည်း အတူတူ

ငြူစူခြင်း ကင်း

မျှဉ်းမျှဉ်း အသက်ရှူ

စိုက်ထူမှတ်တိုင်

မယိမ်းယိုင်ခဲ့…..

မနိုင်ဝန် ပိ

အလှည့်သင့်လာ

သောအခါ မှာ

ခန္ဓာအမွေ

ကြွေသာ ကြွေလည်း

မသေ ဝိညာဉ် ဝဲပျံနေသေးတကား ….။ ။

( ကိုတင်ရွှေ- လျှပ်စစ်စွမ်းအား နှင့် ကိုလှရွှေ- ချည်မျှင် သို့)

တက္ကသိုလ် မိုးဝါ

(၂၆ ဇန္နဝါရီ ၂ဝ၁၅ – ည ၉:၅၅ နာရီ)

To the SHWE Duo

Poem by Tekkatho Moe War
Translated by Hla Min

SHWE duo
Blossom in unison
Disappear together
Free from complaint
Even with thin breath
Showed mark [of courage and wisdom]
Never ever wavered …
Pressed by burden
At the awaited turn [of journey’s end]
Body — inheritance [from previous lives]
Succumbs [to failing health]
Yet, “Wei-nyin” is fresh, alive and hovering.

Chemical

• Daw Tin Myint (ChE66) retired as Professor of Chemical Engineering.
  The Pon Tu is a gift from Bagyee Myat Myo Myint.

• Saya U Maung Maung (George, USA, ChE66) is an MEHS Alumnus.
  He is a Founding Member of RIT Alumni International and an Organizer of SPZP-2000.
  He is a Founding Member of Norcal RITAA and inaugural President.
  He provided $500 as Seed Money for YTU Library Staff Training Fund and raised $3000+ with donations by Saya U Myat Thwin (Kuesan Lin, ChE) and other sayas and alumni.
  His spouse Eng Eng is the younger sister of U Myat Thwin.
• U Ne Win Myint (Victor Win, ChE66, Diving, USA, GBNF) is an alumnus of St. Albert’s HS.
  He is a Past President of BADA.
  His spouse Jean Gale is a Past President of BAWA.
• U Tint Swe (ChE66, Singapore, Tennis) and his spouse Yi Yi Khaing (Vilma, ChE69) visited their sons in USA.
  They had a mini-gathering with Saya George and Ko Victor.
• Saya U Myat Thwin (ChE66) brought his wife Suzie (EE74, GBNF) and their son to attend SPZP-2000. Donated $500 for the Training Component of the YTU Library Modernization Project.

Mechanical

• Saya U Lin (M66) is Past President of RIT Buddhist Association.
  He is a Patron and Organizer of SPZPs in Yangon.
  Rowed for RIT.
  Donated to the YTU Modernization Project.
• U Soe Win (M66)
• U Soe Aung (M66)

Civil

Source : Ko Saw Lwin (Thaton)

• Ah Haung@Kyaw Myint USA
• Mr. Amil
• Aung Myint
• Aye Lwin
• Mr. Chandra India
• Mr. Gopo Nepal
• Kyaw Soe USA
• Lay Maung
• Maung Nu Bangladesh
• Myint Aung
• Nay Soe Naing
• Ohn Maung
• Or Hein
• Pe Than
• San Lwin
• San Nyein
• Sein Tun Australia/ Myanmar
• Soe Aung
• Thant Zin
• Thein Lwin Australia
• Thein Tan
• Tin Aung
• Tin Shwe USA
• Tun Tin
• Tun Win USA
• Victor Wong (King Wong) USA
  He donated books to YTU Library.
  He donated twice to NorCal RITAA : for the library and for the Scholarship fund
• Win Aung
• Win Myint

GBNF

• Aung Nyunt Hlaing
• Aye Thaung
• Bon Kyi
• Kar Daw
• Khin Myint Mu
• Ko Gyi
• Maung Kyin
• Myat Cho
• Myint Han
• Myo Ngwe
• Paw Tun
• Soe Nyunt
• Tin Tun Aye
• Yan Aung
• Yin Maung

REMARK : – The total C66 may be around 52 student

Electrical

• U Thaung Lwin (EC, Singapore) is RUBC Past Captain and Gold.
  He is the younger brother of Saya U Tin U, Saya U Ba Than, Dr. Myo Tint (GBNF), U Tin Htoon (A60) and Saya U Myo Min (UCC). Younger brother of Saya U Tin U (C), Saya U Ba Than (M), Dr. Myo Tint, U Tin Htoon (A60) and Saya U Myo Min (UCC).
  Past Captain and RUBC Gold like his three elder brothers U Tin U, Dr, Myo Tint and U Tin Htoon.
  Worked for IBM Burma before moving to Singapore.
• U Soe Lwin (EC, Railways, USA)
• U Aung Min (EC, MOC)
• U Thein Toe (EC, MOC)
• U Khin Maung Oo (Robert Gale, EC, BPI, USA)

• Saya U Tin Shwe (EP, GBNF) taught at RIT and Assumption University in Bangkok.
  He became a monk and Dhamma Librarian.
  Wrote an article for the Swel Daw Yeik Sar Saung for Singapore SPZP.
  Saya U Moe Aung wrote “To the Shwe Duo” in memory of Saya U Tin Shwe and Saya U Hla Shwe

Architecture

• U Htin Myaing (Ben Aye Maung, A66, Tennis)
• Daw Pyi Aye (Rosalind Maung, A66)
• U Than Tun (A66)
  He is a nephew of Sayadaw U Silanandabhivamsa (GBNF).
  He and Saya Dr. Koung Nyunt (A67, GBNF) wrote an article about Sayagyi U Tha Tun, who served as Part-time Lecturer and Head of the RIT Architecture Department.
  He and his wife Chit Chit visited California in September 7, 2018 and met Saya U Myat Htoo (C68), U Tin Htoon (A60) and Saya U Myo Myint Sein (A58).

Brief Bio

• Matriculated from MEHS (Methodist English High School) in 1960
• Graduated with ChE (Chemical Engineering) in 1966
• Joined faculty after graduation with U Myat Thwin (Keusan Lin, ChE66)

• Spouse : Eng Eng (younger sister of U Myat Thwin)
  They have a son

• Founding member, RIT Alumni International
  
• Organizer, SPZP-2000
• He and several ChE alumni sponsored Saya U Khin Aung Kyi (GBNF) and spouse to attend SPZP-2000
  
• Founding member & inaugural President, Norcal RITAA
• In response to request by Saya U Aung Myaing (ChE72), he provided $500 as seed money for the Training Component of YTU Library Modernization project and solicited donations from sayas and alumni.
  $3000+ was raised.
  Saya U Myat Thwin and Saya U Tin Maung Nyunt (M60) donated $500 each.

Mg Mar Ga wrote :

သူငယ်ချင်းေအာင်မြိုင်အစပြု..ဆရာ့အားပေးလှုဒါန်းမှုကနေlibrary၀န်ထမ်းတွေစင်ကာပူစာကြည့်တိုက်လေ့လာရေးစေလွတ်ပေးနိုင်တာတကဲ့အမှတ်တရ

U Aung Myaing wrote :

ChE72 Final Year question for ” Plant Design and Economics for Chemical Engineers” had three (or four) pages. The examiner was Saya U Maung Maung.

Daw Gyn Yu wrote :

ဆရာကအင်မတန်စာသင်ကောင်းရုံမကသဘောကောင်းပြီးခင်မင်ဖေါ်ရွေတတ်ပါတယ်။ကျမတို့၏ချစ်ခင်လေးစားရသောဆရာပါ။ဆရာ့ဇနီးEng Eng ကလည်းဆရာနှင့်အတူအလွန်လိုက်ဖက်ညီပါတယ်။စိတ်သဘောထားဖြူစင်ကောင်းမွန်ပြီးအလွန်ဖေါ်ရွေ၊ချစ်စရာကောင်းလှပါတယ်

Photos

Mostly taken in the SF Bay Area

• SPZP-2000 Organizers
  
• SF Bay Area Alumni Group
  founded RIT Alumni International
  which hosted SPZP-2000
  
• Welcoming Saya U Soe Paing (EE, UCC)
  
• Welcoming U Tint Swe (ChE66, Singapore)
  U Nay Win Myint (Victor Win, ChE66, Past President of BADA) is GBNF
  
• Welcoming Saya U Aung Myaing (ChE72) and Daw Gyn Yu (ChE72)

Thanks to U Aye (M62, HIC/FAO/UN(Retired) for information and feedback

• Most members matriculated in 1957 and graduated with B.Sc.(Engg) in 1963.

Electrical

Saya U Moe Aung (Tekkatho Moe War, EE63)

• He is a Distinguished Author, Poet, Editor.
• He chaired SPZP-2002 and SPZP-2010.
• He published several books (Collection of Poems & Articles).
• Editor, RUESU Annual Magazine
• Chief Editor, RIT Annual Magazines
• Chief Editor, Hlyat Sit Sar Saung
• Chief Editor, Swel Daw Yeik Sar Saung for SPZP-2002, SPZP-2007 and SPZP-2010
• Chief Editor, Swel Daw Yeik Magazine for Shwe YaDu 2014 and SPZP-2016
• Patron, Swel Daw Yeik Foundation

Saya U Ba Myint (EE63)

• He retired as Pro-Rector of YTU.

Saya U Sein Maung (EE63)

• He taught at RIT and Assumption University.
• Patron of RIT Buddhist Association.
• Daw Lily Win (T72) sponsored Saya to attend SPZP-2000.

Saya Dr. Win Tin (EE63)

• Patron, SPARK
• Post graduate studies in France
• Associate Dean, Assumption University

Saya U Khaing Oo (EE63)

• He took some courses at UCC before going for post-graduate studies in Japan

Saya U Soe Min (EE63, GBNF)

• Studied Aviation in UK
• Transferred to Directorate of Civil Aviation (DCA)

Saya U Chin Way (EE63, GBNF)

• SPARK Saya
• Moved to USA

U Aye Kyu (EE63)

• EE (Retired)
• He was in our BIT volleyball team during 1961-62.

U Nay Tun (EE63, GBNF)

• EC, S &R EC 1962-63
• SAMB (TC 1) ,Retired

Civil

Henry Chee (C63, GBNF)

• Also known as U Myint Lwin and Chein Hoke
• He matriculated from St. Paul’s High School in 1955.
• He is from the Class of 61, but he took sabbatical to get married.
• He worked in Burma before moving to USA.
• He is a member of RIT Alumni International
  and served as an organizer for SPZP-2000.
• He is an excellent vocalist and would entertain at the gatherings in San Francisco Bay Area.
• He succumbed to liver cancer.
  I was asked to share a few words at his funeral service

U Myint Khine (C63)

• He was RU Boxing Champion.
• He was RUBC Green, and rowed for the Faculty of Engineering.
• He was competitive in Soccer and Track & Field.
• Naval Architect
• He moved to UK.
• He wrote articles for RIT Alumni International Newsletter.

Saw Tun Kyaw La (C63)

• CC (Retired)
• He was a footballer from Amara Hall

U Soe Myint (C63)

• SE, CC(Retired)
• He was from Paan

U Ohn Kyaw (C63, GBNF)

• DG, Meteorological Dept. (Retired)

Saya U Kyi Kong Tham (C63)

• Moved to USA

Saya U Koung (C63)

• Moved to USA

Mechanical

U Sein Htoon (M63)

• Past Captain and Gold, RUBC
• He coxed the 1960 ARAE Champion RUBC Crew : U Tin Htoon (A60, Stroke), Sunny Teng (3), Victor Htun Shein (2, GBNF), Dr. Harry Saing (Bow, GBNF).
• Past President, Burma Rowing Federation
• He and Son U Zeyar Linn (M02) form the Second Pair of Father-Son who are Past Captain and Gold of RUBC

U Ye Nyunt (M63)

• AMD (Retired)

U Chit Thaung (M63)

• Project Director (Retired)
• Agri. Products Trading Enterprise
• After retirement, he worked in a Co. in Nigeria.

U Kyaw Thaung (M63)

• Dy GM (Retired)
• Agri. Products Trading Enterprise

U Aung Myint (M63, GBNF)

• EE, Agri. Products Trading Enterprise (Retired)

U Sein Hone (M63, GBNF)

• Dy. CE, SAMB/(TC1)

U Khin Maung Yin (M63)

• Dy. Director AMD (Retired)
• He was from Moulmein

U Oo Tun Wai (M63)

• Dy Director (Retired)
• Water Resource Mgt.

U Tet Tun (M63)

• Dy Director, Drilling (Retired)
• MPCE

U Hla Tint (M63)

• Director, Directorate of Industrial Supervision and Inspection (Retired)

U Win Pe (M63)

• CE, Agri. Products Trading Enterprise (Retired)

U Tun Kyi (M63)

• Dy. GM, Agri. Products Trading Enterprise (Retired)

U Hla Yi (M63)

• Dy. GM, Agri. Products Trading Enterprise (Retired)
• He was from Dawei

U Tint Aung (M63)

• EE, State Timber Corpn. (Retired)
• He was from Thanlyin.

U Hla Tun (M63)

• AMD (Retired)
• Worked in Laos under UN programme.
• He was from Thaton

U Mya Thein (M63)

• Lt Col, DI (Retired)
• Asst CE, EPC

U San Tin (M63)

• MOC
• EC , S&R EC 1962-63.
• He was from Morton Lane Judson HS, Moulmein.

U Tun Myaing (M63)

• He was the President of S & R 1962-63
• AMD (Retired)
• He was from Myintkyina.

U Yu Kyi (M63, GBNF)

• IWTB (Retired)
• He was from State HS No.1, Moulmein

U Myo Lwin (M63, GBNF)

• RTC
• He was from St. Patrick’s HS, Moulmein

U Shwe Kyaw (M63, GBNF)

• Off. Major, Air Force, GBNF
• He perished when his plane crashed near Meikhtila.
• He was a good volleyball player, team mate in BIT (1961-62) and in Ramanya Hall (1959-60),
  Also played in RU volleyball team.
• Spouse : Sayama Daw Khin Toe Myint (Zoo).
• Brothers : Shwe Zan Aung (SPHS63, GBNF), Dr. Shwe Tun Kyaw (Vipassana teacher).
• Son Ko Thet Win Kyaw played Drums at SPZP-2000.

U Lwin Shein (M63)

• RTC (Retired)
• He was from Moulmein

U Bo Sein (M63, GBNF)

• RTC

Saya Dr. Tin Hlaing (M63)

• He was the younger Saya U Tin Hlaing at RIT Mechanical Engineering.
  To differentiate, his friends called Saya “Byte” or “R” Tin Hlaing.
• He moved to Singapore.
• He was Co-chair of SPZP-2002.
• He became a Tone Kyaw when his namesake from Maritime Studies passed away.
  Some alumni posted condolences for saya.

U Than Soe (M63)

• RUBC Gold
• He moved to USA>
• Brother : Saya Dr. Koung Nyunt (A67, GBNF)

Chemical

Saya K C Chiu (Dr. Tin Aung, ChE63)

• He is the younger brother of Saya Dr. Aung Soe (C61).
• Received his doctorate from Louisiana State University.
• He is Past President of BEA.
• He is a founding member of RIT Alumni International and an organizer of SPZP-2000.
• He moved from Northern California to Southern California (after retirement).

U Maung Maung (Ch63)

• Dy. GM (Retired)
• Agri. Products Trading Enterprise