1999 – Present

by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

1999

• 30th Anniversary of 69ers Graduation

• Started “RIT Alumni International Newsletter”

2000

• First RIT Grand Reunion and SPZP in San Francisco, USA

• Commemorative web pages (thanks to KMZ)

• Commemorative Issues of the Newsletter by U Hla Min and team
• 64 Countdown to the Reunion posts
• 36 Post-Reunion posts

2002

• Second RIT Grand Reunion and SPZP in Singapore
• Commemorative Issue of “Swel Daw Yeik Sar Saung”
  by Saya U Moe Aung and team
• Reprinted my “SAYA PUZAW PWE” poem as Back Cover

2004

• Third RIT Grand Reunion and SPZP in Yangon
• Mild earthquake did not rattle the attendees

2007

• Fourth RIT Grand Reunion and SPZP in Singapore
• Commemorative Issue of “Swel Daw Yeik Sar Saung”
  by Saya U Moe Aung and team
• Contributed a poem

2009

• 40th Anniversary of 69er Graduation

2010

• Fifth RIT Grand Reunion and SPZP in Singapore
• Commemorative Issue of “Swel Daw Yeik Sar Saung”
  by Saya U Moe Aung and team
• Contributed an article : Sad and short clip — EE sayas

2012

• Sixth RIT Grand Reunion and SPZP in Yangon
• True “Home Coming” in the Gyogone Campus
• Special publication : History of University Engineering Education in Burma/Myanmar by Saya U Aung Hla Tun and team (
  U Ohn Khine and I prepared the supplemental CD for the book
• Special publication: Selected RIT Cartoons
• Commemorative Issue of “Swel Daw Yeik Magazine” by U Saw Lin and team
• Reprints: Limited number of RIT Annual Magazines

2013

• Swel Daw Yeik Foundation
• Contributions for various projects
• Health care for the sayas and sayamas
• “Saya Geha” as long term project

2014

• Shwe YaDu

• 50th Anniversary of the opening of RIT in 1964
• Golden Jubilee of Admission to RIT for 69ers
• Planted 50 Swel Daw Bins
• Commemorative Issue of “Swel Daw Yeik Magazine” by Saya U Moe Aung and team
  Contributed an article : “Recollections of a 69er”
• Paved Shwe YaDu lane and set up Swel Daw Yeik benches
• Translated Saya U Moe Aung’s Shwe YaDu poem

2015

• RIT Alumni Reunion in Los Angeles

• Mini-gatherings in Northern California

2016

• RIT/YIT/YTU Alumni Association
• Seventh RIT Grand Reunion and SPZP in Yangon
• 10000+ attendees (expected)
• Free food and fun (all day and all night long)
• Received two “RIT Alumni Appreciation Awards”

2019

• Pre RU Centennial events
• Moderator for RU Centennial Web Page
• Panelist for 5th Irawaddy Literary Festival

• Golden Jubilee for 69ers Graduation

2020

• Due to pandemic, SPZP-2020 was canceled
• Low key celebration of RU Centennial
• Broadcast 220+ educational videos

2021 – 2023

• Lost some sayas, classmates and schoolmates
• Updating / Organizing posts
• Mostly Online gatherings

2024

• Centennial of Engineering Education in Burma / Myanmar
• 60th Anniversary of RIT
• Silver Jubilee of “RIT Alumni Newsletter”

2025

• Still paying back to my mentors & alma mater
• Updating Posts
• @hmin3664