HlaMin

Author: Hla Min (Lifelong Learner)

  • RU Donors

    RU Library Donor

    Raja Dr. S. Ramanatha Reddiar(b. 1871-1932) L.L.D.(Honoris Causa), F.R.U

    Other donors

    • U Nyo (RUSU Building, RUBC Club House and several in the RU Estate)
    • Chan Chor Khine (son of Chan Mah Phee and Daw Aye Mya) donated for the RU Gymnasium
    • Sir Arthur Eggar (Law Professor) pledged a third of his salary for the operation of RUBC

  • GBNF (UCC)

    Dr. Chit Swe
    • Dr. Chit Swe / Saya Chit
      Founder and Director of UCC
      Passed away in Sydney, Australia in 2019
    • Dr. Tin Maung
      Succeeded Dr. Chit Swe as Director of UCC
      Retired as Rector of ICST
    • U Ko Ko Lay / Saya Lay
      Helped Dr. Chit Swe found UCC
      Retired as Professor of Information Systems at ICST
    • CO U Hla Min / Pauk Si
      Passed away while serving as Chief Operator of UCC
    • U Mya Thein / Bo Shoke
      Taught at the Institute of Economics, UCC and IMBTU
    • U Kyaw Nyein / Kyein
      Scientific Applications Programmer
      Taught Numerical Methods
      Worked as UNV in the Middle East
    • U Win Naing
      Science Scholar for Mathematics
      Scientific Applications Programmer
    • U Soe Thein / Joe
      Business Applications Programmer
    • U Soe Myint (Gyi) / Sunlun Kappiya
      Retired as Pro-Rector, UCSY
    • U Maung Maung Gyi / Thein Tan / Henry Than Htay
      Chief Operator
    • Daw Nge Ma Ma Than / Ma Nge / Theresa Aung Than
      Applications Programmer
      Taught at UCC, DCS and ICST
      Prisoner of Conscience
    • U Myint Aung
      Retired as Superintendent at UCC
    • Daw Khin Lay Myint
      Secretary
      Retired as Admin Officer at UCC
    • U Shein Soe Myint
      Passed away in Singapore while doing graduate studies
    • U Aung Aung Thein
      Worked and taught at UCC
    • Daw Hla Hla Win
      Operations Division
    • Daw Kyu Kyu Lwin
      Operations Division
      Transferred to SSB
    • Daw Win May Thoung
      Operations Division
    • Daw Khin Mya Swe (M.Sc,)
      Passed away in Lesotho
    • Daw Khin Toe Nyein (M.Sc.)
    • Daw Thida Aung (M.Sc.)
    • Some M.Sc. students
      Dr. Htay Lwin Nyo
      U Thein Tan
    • Some DAC students
      Henry Maung Maung
    • Some who worked or studied at ICST
      Dr. Kyaw Thein
      U Kyaw Mya Thein

    Advisors / Supporters

    • Dr. F. Ba Hli
      Member, UCC Management Board
      Advisor, Ministry of National Planning
    • U Sein Win
      Technical Advisor for Electrical Systems
    • U Win Htein
      SE, PWD (Electrical)
    • Dr. San Tint
      Lecturer (and later Professor), RIT EE
    • U Tin Swe
      Power User with EP students

  • Knowledge Transfer

    • Dr. Chit Swe (Founder / Director of UCC) firmly believed in Transfer of Knowledge and Technology.
    • For the UCC Project, several distinguished Computing Professionals gave courses — short term and long term.
    • Professor Harry D Huskey (UCSC) and Professor Anthony Ralston (SUNY, Buffalo) were Past ACM Presidents.
      They taught courses on
      “History of Computers”,
      “Structured Programming”,
      “PASS (Compiler)”,
      “ZIP (Interpreter)”
      …
    • Professor Michael Stonebraker (then at UC Berkeley) gave a short course at UCC on Relational DBMS in general, and Ingres in particular.
      A few years back, he won the Prestigious ACM Turing Award and the $1 M prize.
      He joined Charles Bachmann, E F Codd and Jim Gray as DBMS Gurus to win the Turing Award,
      He is the lone Serial Entrepreneur among the 70 ACM Turing Award Winners.
    • There were several other visiting Professors (e.g Peter Wegner, Foreman Acton) and IT Professionals (e.g. Sheldon Bacchus).

  • UCC GBNF

    Dr. Chit Swe
    • Dr. Chit Swe
      Founder and Director of UCC
      Passed away in Sydney, Australia in 2019
    • Dr. Tin Maung
      Succeeded Dr. Chit Swe as Director of UCC
      Retired as Rector of ICST
    • U Ko Ko Lay
      Helped Dr. Chit Swe found UCC
      Retired as Professor of Information Systems at ICST
    • CO U Hla Min
      Passed away while serving as Chief Operator of UCC
    • U Mya Thein
      Taught at the Institute of Economics, UCC and IMBTU
    • U Kyaw Nyein
      Scientific Applications Programmer
      Taught Numerical Methods
      Worked as UNV in the Middle East
    • U Win Naing
      Science Scholar for Mathematics
      Scientific Applications Programmer
    • U Soe Thein
      Business Applications Programmer
    • U Soe Myint (Gyi)
      Retired as Pro-Rector, UCSY
    • U Maung Maung Gyi
      Chief Operator
    • Daw Nge Ma Ma Than
      Applications Programmer
      Taught at UCC, DCS and ICST
      Prisoner of Conscience
    • U Myint Aung
      Retired as Superintendent at UCC
    • Daw Khin Lay Myint
      Retired as Admin Officer at UCC
    • U Shein Soe Myint
      Passed away in Singapore while doing graduate studies
    • U Aung Aung Thein
      Worked and taught at UCC
    • Daw Hla Hla Win
      Operations Division
    • Daw Kyu Kyu Lwin
      Transferred to SSB
    • Daw Win May Thoung
      Operations Division
    • Daw Khin Mya Swe (M.Sc,)
      Passed away in Lesotho
    • Daw Khin Toe Nyein (M.Sc.)
    • Daw Thida Aung (M.Sc.)
    • Some M.Sc. students
      e.g. U Thein Tan
    • Some DAC students

    Advisors / Supporters

    • Dr. F. Ba Hli
      Member, UCC Management Board
      Advisor, Ministry of National Planning
    • U Sein Win
      Technical Advisor for Electrical Systems
    • U Win Htein
      SE, PWD (Electrical)
    • Dr. San Tint
      Lecturer (and later Professor), RIT EE

  • Mya Kyun Nyo Nyo

    • Maung Ngwe Hlinne is the pen name of Saya U Thet Lwin, who taught Burmese at the Institute of Economics and later transferred to RIT as Registrar.
    • He is a distinguished Composer.
      His songs include “Mya Kyun Nyo Nyo”.
    • [Saya Dr. Soe Win] : My father Saya Sein was U Thet Lwin‘s Burmese teacher at St. Paul’s High School.
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    Mya Kyun Nyo
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    U Thet Lwin (Maung Ngwe Hlinne)

  • ChE 70

    Chemical

  • ChE 71

    Chemical

  • Class of 71

    U Khin Maung Myint (ChE71) and Daw Mai Khin Khin Nyunt (Rosie, ChE71) were among those who graduated from RIT in 1971. They shared the results published in Working People’s Daily.

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    Architecture

    • Saw Orson
      Volleyball

    Chemical

    • Nwe Ni Wai
    • Khin Maung Myint
    • Mae Khin Nyunt (Rosie)
      Organizer
    • Khin Mya Swe

    Civil

    • Khin Maung Chit
    • Win Myint
      High School LYC

    Electrical

    • Tin Win (Electrical Communications)
    • Tin Than (Electrical Power)
    • Htun Aung
    • Pwint Than
      High School LYC

    Mechanical

    • Ne Win (Mechanical)
    • Myint Htay (Automobile)
    • Ma Nwe (Agriculture)
    • Myint Thin (GBNF)
      Luyechun
      Rowing
    • Myint Toe
    • Aung Win (Owen Khoo)
      Hockey
    • Khin Maung Myint
      Rowing
    • Myint Than
      Rowing
    • Soe Khine
      Organizer
    • Uttam Singh
      High School LYC

    Metallurgy

    • Nyan Tun U (Metallurgy)
    • Win Kyaw
      Rowing

    Mining

    • Saw Thant (Mining)
    • Win Myint (Petroleum Production)

    Textile

    • Aye Aye Myint (Textile)

  • Rowing 13

    RUBC 2019

    Regattas

    Usually there were three Regattas.

    • Rag Regatta
      A day long event
      The top two Novice crews are seeded for the Monsoon Regatta
    • Monsoon Regatta
      Shorter races rowed over the “Monsoon Course” (750 yards)
    • Annual Regatta
      Shorter races rowed over 1000 yards
      Usually held at the Regatta Island
      May hold Inter-Club events

    Guests of Honor

    RUBC Regattas were attended by

    • President of the Union of Burma
      May hand out the President’s Challenge Cup for Inter-Club Coxed Eights
    • Prime Minister of the Union of Burma
      The Prime Minister is the Chancellor of the University of Rangoon
      May hand out the Prime Minister’s Challenge Cup for Inter-Club Coxed Fours
    • Diplomatic Corps
      e.g. The British Ambassador may hand out the British Ambassador’s Challenge Cup
    • Rector
      During my tenure, Saya Kha (Dr. Maung Maung Kha) attended the regattas and gave away the prizes to the winners
    • Past Captains
      Many Past Captains can be seen in the Group Photo in the 90th Anniversary Issue
    • Senior Old Members
      They often volunteer as Starters, Time Keepers and Hustlers
    • Sayas
      During my tenure, Saya H Num Kok, Saya U Sein Win and Saya Dr. San Hla Aung served as Line Judges
    • Coaches
      Dr. Harry Saing (Htut Saing, Past Captain, ARAE Champion)
      U San Maung (Gerald Sein)

  • Rowing 12

    RUBC 2019

    Tradition

    “Saluting the Nat” was an item in the early regattas.

    The Cox and selected members of the winning crew were thrown into the Inya Lake.

    The Awards Ceremony usually ended with “Give Her Ten” and “Easy Oars”.

    Some Old Members would stay behind for dinner and/or drinks. There might be some bragging, e.g “We were the Top Pair in our times. He was the BRAWN. I was the BRAIN.”

    Ye Mt wrote :

    We are very glad to know these traditions, please share more to new generations. If you don’t mind, I would like to arrange a chat table with new student rowers at the meeting room of Old Members Association at YUBC.

    Freesia Htun wrote :

    Thank you for your sharing knowledge and memories of RUBC.

    Kyaw Saing wrote :

    I think so as RUBC Give her ten
    Thank you, uncle

    Dr. Tin Wa (Past Captain and Gold) wrote :

    I have a photo of “Saluting the Nats” ceremony in Kyemon newspaper the next day after the Regatta 1961 with the Caption “What’s up University Folks!” In this age of science, why are we holding to the old tradition of of offering to the spirits? I had written an article about it indicating that it was started by Sir Arthur and no matter what, we never had any fatal accidents during any of our Regattas. If I find the article, I will send it to you .

    With Metta

    Ko Tin-Wa