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Month: May 2025

  • Experts for Burmese Movies

    မြန်မာ့ရုပ်ရှင် ပညာရှင် (တချို့)

    စက်မှုတက္ကသိုလ် RIT

    * ဦးခင်မောင်ရင် (ကွယ်လွန်) — ပိသုကာ 1960

    ဒါရိုက်တာ၊ ပန်းချီဆရာ

    U Kin Maung Yin (GBNF)

    * နောင်ထွန်းလွင် — စက်မှု 1975

    ဒါရိုက်တာ

    * ဦးအောင်မြင့် — သတ္တုတွင်း 1970

    သမန်းကျား ကိုမြင့်

    သရုပ်ဆောင်၊ Production, Composer,

    Guitarist, Vocalist

    Thamankyar Ko Myint

    * ဦးသန်းဝင်း — ချည်ထည် 1970

    ဇာတ်ညွှန်း — သမန်းကျား

    * ဦးထင်လင်း (ကွယ်လွန်) — လျှပ်စစ်စွမ်းအား 1993

    ဒွေး — သရုပ်ဆောင်

    Dway (GBNF)

    * ဦးအေးသိန်း — လျှပ်စစ်ဆက်သွယ်ရေး 1987

    မင်းဦး — သရုပ်ဆောင်

    Min Oo

    —

    ဒေသကောလိပ် Regional College

    * ဦးမြတ်လှစိန် (ကွယ်လွန်) — PPBRS alumnus

    ဌာနမှုး — ရုပ်ရှင် Technology

    Myat Hla Sein (GBNF)

    Credit: Photos 2, 3 — ကျော်ကျော် (စက်မှု)

  • Paying respect to U Ba Than

    By U Aung Min (M69)

    Dear RIT69ers

    ဒီနေ့နံနက် (၂၅/၉/၂၂)တွင် ဆရာကြီး ဦးဘသန်း Mechanical Professor ထံသို့ အတန်းဖေါ်သူငယ်ချင်းနှင့် သွားရောက် ဂါရဝပြုလျက် စုပေါင်းကန်တောငွေ ကျပ်၁၄သိန်းအားဆက်ကပ် ခဲ့ပါတယ်။ဆေးရုံမှဆင်းတာမကြာသေးတာကြောင့် အနည်းငယ်ပိန်သွားတာမှလွဲလို့ ကျန်းမာနေကြောင်းတွေ့ခဲ့ရပါတယ်။

    ဆရာကြီးက တပည့်များအားမှာကြားလိုက်သည်ကတော့ ” ယခုအသက် ၉၂ နှစ်ရှိပြီ၊ မကြာခင်အသက် ၁၀၀ ပြည့်မည်၊မကြာ မကြာ လာတွေ့ကြပါ၊အားလုံးကျန်းမာကြပါစေ။” ဟူ၍ဖြစ်ပါသည်။

    “Representatives of RIT69ERS” paying respect to Sayar Gyi U Ba Than

    • Khin Maung Tin
    • Walter Ngwe Soe,
    • Tin Aung Win
    • Mehm Aye Chan,
    • Aung Min
    • Tin Mg Aye,
    • Sein Tun.
    Khin Maung Tin, Walter Ngwe Soe, Tin Aung Win, Mehm Aye Chan, Aung Min, Tin Mg Aye, Sein Tun
    U Ba Than
    U Ba Than
    U Ba Than and 69ers
    69ers paying respect
    69ers paying respect

  • U Than Htay (MARB)

    U Myint Sein (GBNF) attended PPBRS, SPHS and Institute of Economics.

    He is a founding member of BARB and served as Principal of Veda courses.

    He requested me to develop programs for Veda. I supervised U Win Latt to develop Win Horo and U Zaw Tun to develop အဟော program (in Prolog).

    He later founded Idea Astrology.

    He served as Visiting Professor at the School for Indigenous Medicine. His expertise included Medical Astrology.

    ** Notes

    * U Myint Sein and Veda Sayas (e.g U Khin Aung Bo, U Myint Lwin and U Than Htay) taught classes at BARB. Sad to note that all four are GBNF.

    * They would also hold discussions (and Live Readings) at some houses / places.

    * Saya U Aye Win Kyaw (C70, GBNF) is a founding member and EC of BARB.

    He taught Astronomy and Astronomy at BARB.

    • Some Veda sayas (e.g. U Hla Win, Dr. Aung Myin Bo) would pick me up to visit MARB

  • U Than Win (M69)

    • He was from Myaung Mya.
    • He attended SPHS as a Boarder.
    • He graduated from RIT.
    • He and family donated K4 lakhs to Myaung Mya Wailuwadi monastery / meditation center.

    Notes

    • After the 69er monthly breakfast gathering, he took Ko Htay Aung and me to his house.
    • After small talk, he took me to a restaurant in Yin Pyin, where Old Paulians offered Soon to Sayadaw Beatson (Physics saya & Scout Master).

    Feedback

    • Than Win wrote :

    အလှူမှတ်တမ်းလေးတင်ပေးတဲ့သူငယ်ချင်းကို အထူးကျေးဇူးတင်ပါတယ်

    U Tin Htut, U Htay Aung, U Than Win

  • U Sein Myint (EP69)

    • Represented RIT in Swimming, Water Polo and Rowing
    • Donor / Organizer for 69er activities
    • Retired
    Soon Kyway for grand daughter at Half Moon Bay Monastery
    NorCal RITAA Meeting
    Daughter and Grand daughter
    EE69ers in 1969
    EE69ers in 2009

    Swimming & Water Polo

    His swimming and water polo partners include

    • Htay Aung
    • Win Maung (“Lake”)
    • Han Sein (GBNF)
    • Moe Hein (“Ajala”)
    • Hla Kyaing
    • …

    Rowing

    His rowing partner was Ko Win Naing (Dicky, M69, GBNF).

    He coxed several crews. One crew consisted of Ko Khin Maung Myint (M71), Ko Win Kyaw (Met71), Ko Myint Than (M71)

    Donor / Organizer

    He is a major donor for

    • 69er Health Care Fund
    • EE69er Health Care Fund.

    He was one of the organizers (along with Ko Daniel Tint Lwin, Ko Kyaw Than, …) for the 30th Anniversary of the Graduation for the Class of 69.

    Miscellaneous

    He worked in Singapore (with occasional business trip to Indonesia).

    He visits his children and grand children in California and Yangon.

  • U Ko Ko Lay (UCC)

    Saya U Ko Ko Lay matriculated from St. Paul’s High School in 1956.

    He received BS and MS in Civil Engineering from Stanford University, USA.

    He transferred from PWD to UCC as Manager of Operations Division.

    He received MS in Systems Engineering from Lancaster University, UK.

    He served as Manager of Scientific Applications Division at UCC, Professor of Computer Science at Department of Computer Science (DCS) and Professor of Information Systems at Institute of Computer Science and Technology (ICST).

    He played Soccer, Volleyball and Tennis with colleagues, students and computer users.

    He had problems (e.g double vision) and had treatment in Bangkok and Rangoon.

    Sadly, he passed away.

    ** Notes

    * Saya Dr. Chit Swe (GBNF) founded UCC with help from Saya U Soe Paing, Saya U Myo Min and Saya U Ko Ko Lay (GBNF).

    At UCC, they are known as Saya Chit, Saya Paing, Saya Myo and Saya Lay.

    * He has three younger brothers : U Than Htut (M67, RUBC Gold), Maw and Zaw (Min Htut, RUBC Gold, GBNF).

    He has three sisters.

    * Spouse : Betty

  • U Ngwe Tun (C)

    Saya U Ngwe Tun (C) used to run a book shop called “Theingi Maw”.

    After the demise of his spouse, Saya moved to his daughter’s house.

    He did not go out during the pandemic, but he got infected by Covid and passed away.

    ** Notes

    * Ko Myint Naing and Ohn Mar Khin are variants of Covid.

    * Some who had four doses (or more) of Covid vaccine still got infected by newer strains of Covid.

    Saya U Ngwe Tun (C) used to run a book shop. 

    After the demise of his spouse, Saya moved to his daughter’s house.

    He did not go out during the pandemic, but he got infected by Covid and passed away.

    ** Notes

    * Ko Myint Naing and Ohn Mar Khin are variants of Covid.

    * Some who had four doses (or more) of Covid vaccine still got infected by newer strains of Covid.

  • U Tin Swe (EE)

    Prome Hall
    At U Soe Paing’s house
    EE Saya mini-gathering

    Saya U Tin Swe graduated with Electrical Engineering in 1953. He joined the EE Department as Assistant Lecturer.

    He received MS from Michigan University.

    He was promoted to Lecturer.

    Due to scarcity of Professorships in those days, he retired as Lecturer.

    He played Soccer for Pegu Hall and Prome Hall (which won the Inter-Hall Trophy for two consecutive years).

    He also played Tennis.

    He was an early user at UCC. He and his former students Dr. San Oo (EP67), Dr. Thein Tun (EP67) and U Aung Kyaw Pe (EP69) worked on EP projects at UCC.

    ** Notes

    * He was wrongly called as U Tint Swe, U Tin Shwe and U Tin Shwe Gyi.

    * U Tin Shwe (EP66, GBNF) thus became (wrongly) known as U Tin Shwe Lay.

    * EC and EP later became Departments with their own Professors.

    U Sein Win (GBNF) was the first EP Professor.

    Dr. San Tint (GBNF) was the first EC / Electronics Engineering Professor.

  • U Sein Hlaing (EE)

    Saya U Sein Hlaing graduated with Electrical Engineering in 1952. He joined the EE Department as Assistant Lecturer.

    He received MS from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

    He became Lecturer and Head of Department.

    He became one of the early Professors.

    He passed away a couple of years after his retirement.

    ** Notes

    * U Htay Aung (Victor, EC80, Australia) is the son of Saya’s elder brother.

    * Saya’s spouse is Sayama Daw Nyunt Nyunt Yee (EP72, GBNF).

  • U Win Thein (M67)

    U Win Thein (M67) was an outstanding Organizer.

    He founded Set Hmu Thadin Zin and helped establish the RIT Mechanical Engineering Magazine.

    He was active in RIT Ah Nu Pyinnya Ah Thinn.

    He worked for Sittaung Paper Mill and PPIC.

    He then ran his business (e.g Ya Tha Cho).

    ** Notes

    * He is a member of the London Gold Flake family.

    * The photos are from U Tin Maung Aye (Accordion, M69).