SPHS63

by Hla Min

Update : 5th October 2026

Scholarship holders

In the Matriculation examination in 1963, the students from St. Paul’s High School had

• five in the Top Five
• seven in the Top Ten
• ten in the Top Twenty

The standings were

• Khin Maung U / George Khin Maung : First in the whole of Burma
• Min Oo / Kenneth Khine : Second
• Myo San / Freddie Ba San (GBNF) : Third
• Nyunt Wai / Victor Nyunt : Fourth
• Thein Wai : Fifth
• Hla Min : Seventh
• Aung Kyaw Zaw / Johnny Maung Maung : Ninth
• Maung Maung Kyi (GBNF) : Eleventh
• Aung Thu Yein / Brownie Way (GBNF) : Thirteenth
• Khin Maung Zaw / Frank Gale : Seventeenth

Of the ten,

• Six chose to study Medicine
• Three choose to study Engineering & Computer Science
• One chose to study 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††

Doctorates

• Min Oo — Mathematics; Professor Emeritus, McMasters University, Canada
• Nyunt Wai — Physiology; Retired Professor at IM(1), IM(2) and Malaysia
• Htin Aung — Civil Engineering; Retired Professor, RIT
• Nyan Taw — Marine Biology; Retired from UN / FAO
• Myo Khin — Civil Engineering; Retired Professor, Japan

Birthday Soon Gathering hosted by Kyaw Wynn

• Kyaw Wynn is a cousin of Saya U Tin Htut (M60) and Sayama Daw Kin Kin Chit Maung (RIT English).
• He offered birthday soon kyway to Uzin Okkantha (Victor, Aung Chaw) and treated his former classmates (some of whom have not seen each other for a long time) at Aung Thu Kha (aka “Shwe Ba Htamin Saing”).

Attendees at Kyaw Wynn’s Gathering

• Aye Ngwe / Edwin Ngwe (GBNF)
• Kyaw Win (“Birthday Boy”)
• Khin Maung Bo / Alan Saw Maung (GBNF, EP69)
• Hla Min (EC69)
• Uzin Okkantha / Aung Chaw, Victor (GBNF, C69)
• Than Win (M69)
• Aung Kyi / Arthur Kyi (GBNF)
• Tin Tun (GBNF, M69)
• Khin Maung Zaw / Frank Gale (IM1 70, UK)

RUBC Novice Crew in 1963

• Maung Maung Kyi (B, Dip Ing in ChE, Wales, UK, GBNF): Bow
• Hla Min : No. (2)
• Kyaw Wynn : No. (3)
• Willie Soe Mg (S, BDS, GBNF) : Stroke
• Myint Thein (SPHS 62, B. Com 66, GBBF) : Cox

The crew was Runner-up in Senior Novices in the Monsoon Regatta.

The crew members were awarded Full Green at the end of the year.

Gone But Not Forgotten

GBNF include

• Myint Soe (Willie Soe Mg, BDS)
• Dr. Myo San (Freddie Ba San)
• Dr. Freddie Sein
• Aung Thu Yein (Brownie Way, EC69)
• Aung Khin (DSA)
• Shwe Zan Aung (OTS)
• Min Thaw (Gilbert Thaw, EP)
• Uzin Patrick Ba Maung
• Dr. Mg Mg Aye
• Dr. Aung Thwin (Alfred, USA)
• Chit Po Po
• Tin Nwe (Cowboy)