Col. Hla Oung was Patron of the Burma Hiking and Mountaineering Association.
Universities, Institutes and Government Departments have their H&M Clubs.
U Shein (SLR) and Ko Henry Wan (SPHS59) are some of the evangelists / active members.
Ko Win Lwin (M69) served as Secretary of RIT H&M Club. He and Ko Cho Aye (M70, GBNF) joined the All Universities Expedition to Saramti (Mt. Victoria). The photos are provided by Ko Win Lwin.
Kyi Kyi Sein (Bei Oo, T70) and others also represented RIT in the Hiking contests.
Three third year BE students Ko Zaw Min, Ko Han Tha Myint and Ko Sein Win trekked 300+ miles. The story was quoted as a 600+ mile journey in the Burmese newspaper.
Ko Zaw Min (EP70) has written posts about his stay at RIT from 1964 to 1970. He covers education, extracurricular activities (soccer, boxing, rowing, UTC, hiking, track and field, debates, Pwes).
DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) produced PDP and VAX.
Khin Maung Zaw wrote :
It’s kind of sad that DEC failed to keep up with their lead beyond PDP.
I don’t know why Ken Olsen was pushed out, my limited understanding was that he was not high on Unix (he had been attributed to calling Unix a ‘snake oil’), for some reason his attempts to push VAX/VMS didn’t take off as he might have liked. I’ve read it somewhere that he didn’t get much support within DEC on the VAX/VMS endeavor.
At the time, there was a talented group of DEC engineers in Seattle area (across the lake from Seattle, matter of fact we here called East Side – Bellevue/Redmond). If I recall correctly, the first Microsoft Data Center at Canyon Park, several miles north of Redmond, was ran by DEC folks in the late 80s, early 90s.
A brilliant OS architect, Dave Cutler, part of a triumvirate led DEC’s Star project, a virtual 32-bit extension on PDP 11/70. Star and its cousin Starlet became precursor to VAX/VMS among others. The triumvirate were working at the DECWEST facilities in Bellevue, next to the city of Redmond.
Around late 1980s, some events – of which I’m no clue whatsoever, Canyon Park Data Center staff as well as many of the DECWEST team became part of Microsoft.
As the saying goes, “The Rest Is History”. Dave Cutler and his team led the development of Windows NT, New Technology” and beyond. Some folks attributed Billg who manged to extract most of the DEC VAX team into MSFT.
[A titbit on VAX and NT] Mark Russinovich, received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon in 1994, wrote series of articles in the Windows magazine, comparing the deep down internals of vms and NT. He even discovered the names of the internal variables have the identical names between them.
He co-founded a company called “Winternals”, developed a set of Windows tools which quickly became a Swiss knifes for every Windows engineers. Needless to say, Microsoft bought his company, the tools became part of Windows. Mark became Technical Fellow, and now he is the CTO of Azure.
U Tha Hlaing (EC83) stood Joint First with U Thaung Tin (EC83, KMD).
He is the elder son of Saya Dr. Freddie Ba Hli (GBNF) and Daw Myint Thwe (sister of Saya U Ba Than).
He gave me the book during my visit to Sydney in 2006.
Book present by U Tha Hlaing
Pathan
Dr. Nandamalabhivansa, retired Rector of IMBTU, is the author.
As Pro-Rector, Sayadaw brought special robes for the Final Journey of U Silanandabhivansa, inaugural Rector of IMBTU.
I was emcee for the Memorial Service.
Saya U Ye Sint (Physics) and I served as Editors of Dhammanda Newsletter, EC & BOD of TBSA, and Contributing Editors of the book in memory of U Silananda. He gave me the Pathan book as present.
Pathan book by Dr. Nandamalabhivamsa
Q&A on Dhamma
Ashin Kelasa published five volumes on the topic, and a few other books.
He gave me some books in person (during his visits to the SF Bay Area) or by mail.
He is the Chief Resident monk at A Lo Daw Pyie monastery at Apache Junction, Arizona.
In the early days, the faculty members of Social Science served as Visiting Lecturers at BIT/RIT
Saya was Lecturer of Economics and the Librarian of Social Science Library. Taught Economics to the engineering students at BIT.
U Maung Maung
Research Engineer with UBARI
Taught part-time to engineering students.
U Aye (M62, HIC/FAO/UN (Retired)) wrote :
U Than Lwin was our Economics lecturer during our Third year Engg. class (Old system) in 1960-61.
Part-time lecturers during 1961-62 include :
U Kyaw Hla, Manager, (M54), M.Engg (McGill), Manager, PEI 2, Ministry of Industry, our part-time lecturer for Theory of Machines.
U Kyaw Kyaw Thein, Architect, a graduate from Leeds, UK, from U Kyaw Kyaw Thein & Associates, Pansodan Street, was our par-time lecturer for Hydraulics.
Our Industrial Management lecturer was from the Institute of Economics.
Note : During 1961-62 academic year, our lecturer Mr. Johnny King (U Ko Ko Gyi) resigned to go abroad and our Russian Professor passed away.
Part time lecturer on Mechanized Construction
U Hla Shein (M60) Dy, Director, Mechanized Construction (Retired) Went to Manchester, UK, for further study/training
Editor’s Notes :
There were connections between BIT/RIT and UBARI. Some who went for further studies on UBARI scholarship [later] joined BIT/RIT as full-time or part-time sayas.
Saya U Tin Htut (M60) was the first engineering saya to teach “Industrial Management”. In the early days, the Departments of Economics and Commerce (from the Faculty of Social Science, and later Institute of Economics) taught “Industrial Management”. They include Saya U Thein Aung and Saya U Tin Nyunt
Electrical Inspectorate and EPC provided Visiting Lecturers to the Electrical Engineering Department.
Engineers from Irrigation and Municipal taught part-time in Civil Engineering.
Some artists (e.g. Bagyee Aung Soe) taught part time in Architecture.
There are other subjects (e.g. Sociology) that are taught by part-time sayas and visiting lecturers.
ဦးသာထွန်း (ကွယ်လွန်) Head of Department in the 1960s See article by Dr. Koung Nyunt (A67, GBNF) and U Than Tun (A65)
U Khin Maung Thint (Jimmy Tin) Taught the early batches Moved to USA
ပိသုကာ ကျော်မင်း (ကွယ်လွန်) Designed Mausoleum for Thakin Kodaw Hmaing Founding member, BARB
U Myo Myint Sein
ဦးမျိုးမြင့်စိန် Retired as Professor and Head of Architecture Celebrated his 91st birthday on October 1, 2022
Bilal Raschid Son of H.E. M A Raschid (Minister in the AFPFL Government) Graduated with Civil Engineering from RU in 1956 Studied Architecture in UK Moved to USA
ဒေါက်တာမောင်ကျော် (ကွယ်လွန်)
ဒေါက်တာလွင်အောင် Former Professor and Head Retired as Pro-Rector, YTU Became a monk after retirement
ပန်းချီ အောင်စိုး Artist Taught Sketching
ဦးမောင်မောင်
U Hla Myint Served as Hall Warder
ဦးစိန်မောင် (Stanley Ba Pe)
ဦးမောင်မောင်ဖုန်းမြင့်
ဒေါက်တာကောင်းညွန့် (ကွယ်လွန်) Studied in Japan Moved to New Zealand Wrote articles for RIT Alumni International Newsletter
ဦးကျော်သိန်း
စိုင်းရီလိတ် (ကွယ်လွန်)
ဦးလှသန်း Retired as Pro-Rector (Acting Rector)
ဒေါ်မင်းသက်မွန် (Pamela Myo Min) Retired as Professor and Head
ဦးကျော်ဝင်း
ဒေါ်ဆွေဆွေအေး
ဦးမောင်လှိုင်
Feedback
Thein Ngwe (ChE76) posted photos of Dr. Koung Nyunt’s visit to Japan.
The photo was submitted by Saya Allen Htay (GBNF). Saya Dr. San Hla Aung and U Khin Maung Win (Sid Chen, GBNF) provided the captions. The names appeared in an early post by Saya Allen for SPZP-2000.
Saya H Num Kok is a saya of our sayas including Saya Dr. Aung Gyi and Saya U Min Win.
Saya U Ba Hli is the first native Dean of Engineering. He also served as Professor of Civil Engineering. He proposed the “Twinning Program” with prestigious universities in the USA.
Saya Allen Htay (USA, GBNF)
Lecturer at RIT
President of RIT Photography Association
Received Masters from Harvard University
Member of BEA and BAPS
Leader of SF Bay Area Alumni
Founding member and President of RIT Alumni International which hosted SPZP-2000.
His article “Brother, can you spare $500 and more?” resulted in Golden Sponsors, Donors and Volunteers.
Saya Dr. San Hla Aung (USA)
Lecturer at RIT
Received Masters from MIT and Doctorate from Tulane University
Retired Professor of Practice at Tulane University, New Orleans
President of RIT Swimming Association
President of RIT Rowing Association.
Line Judge at RUBC Regattas.
Wrote articles for RIT Alumni Newsletter and website.
Donated back some Garawa money to SDYF and RIT-related activities.
Saya Dr. Win Thein (GBNF)
Retired Professor and Head of RIT Civil Engineering
U Khin Maung Win (Sid Chen, USA, GBNF)
Helped annotate the C58 Class Photo with Dr. San Hla Aung and Saya Allen
Pon Tu of U Sein HlaingRIT Electrical Engineering Sayas
Attended Rangoon University when it reopened in 1946 (after three years of closure due to the war).
Graduated with Electrical Engineering in 1952
Joined the EE Department at Rangoon University as Assistant Lecturer.
Received MS from MIT.
Upon return to Burma, he was promoted to Lecturer.
Retired as Professor and Head of the RIT Electrical Engineering Department.
He passed away a few years after retirement.
Spouse : Daw Nyunt Nyunt Yee (GBNF)
U Tin U (C)
U Tin U in 1949U Tin U was Captain of RUBC in 1948 – 1949U Tin U at SPZP-2012U Tin U and U Thaung Lwin (RUBC Captains)
Attended Rangoon University when it reopened in 1946 (after three years of closure due to the war). Classmates : Dr. Pe Nyun (GBNF), Dr. Pe Thein (GBNF)
Past Captain and Gold of Rangoon University Boat Club (RUBC). U Tin U, Dr. Pe Nyun, Dr. Pe Thein and Bobby Tin represented RUBC at the 1948 Independence Day Regatta at Kandawgyi and were awarded RUBC Gold.
As of this time of writing, U Tin U is the Most Senior among the RUBC Past Captains.
Celebrated his 93rd birthday in August 2022.
Received BS in Civil Engineering from Oregon State University and MS in Civil Engineering from Yale University.
Upon his return, he taught part-time at the Civil Engineering Department.
Served as Honorary Treasurer, Association of Engineers in Burma (after Second World War)
Worked for Clark and Grieg, Inter-Kiln.
Senior member of Consulting Group (of Architects and Engineers)
Past Captain of Rangoon Golf Club (RGC). Gave interview.
Spouse : Dr. Daw Khin Kyi Nyunt (GBNF)
Children : Dr. Khin Tun (Peter, GBNF), Daw Aye Aye Khin, Dr. Ye Myint
He also gave interview for HMEE project (See below).
Association of Engineers in Burma after World War
There were interviews for the HMEE-2012 project.
The account was retold by Saya U Tin U and recorded by Saya U Ba Than.
Re-instituted about 1955-56
President : Sayagyi U Ba Hli (Dean of Engineering, University of Rangoon, GBNF)
Honorary Secretary : Saya U Soon Sein (Professor, Mining, GBNF)
Honorary Treasurer : Saya U Tin U (Part time Lecturer, Civil)
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