by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

Highlights

Guinea Pigs of Edu System

• Last 7th Std Government exam in 1960
• First HSF Only exam in 1962; Those from Rangoon had to take exams in March & August
• Matric Only exam in 1963; My older brother entered Yankin College in 1957 after passing 9th Std (HSF & Matric) exam.
• Attended last ever I.Sc(A)
• Admitted to 2nd BE in Nov 1964
• Graduated with BE (a few with BArch) in 1969

Long After Graduation

• First major Reunion in 1999
• Anniversary Reunions in 2009, 2014 and 2019
• Except for pause during pandemic, Monthly Breakfast Gathering (usually at Taw Win Hnin Si)

Jara, Byadi & Marana

• Over 40% are GBNF
• Remaining 69ers try to be active physically, mentally & spiritually.
• Two are Sayadaws: Ashin Ukkamsa & Ashin Pannagavesaka
• Many hosted and/or attended Monthly Breakfast Gatherings.
• One gathering had a record of nine hosts.
• Gifts — 69er towel, 69er mug, 69er cap, 69er hat, 69er pen, medicine — are given at selected gatherings; Albert & company gave out towels; Millie was represented by her cousin; Kyaw Zin was represented by his elder daughter; Fred gave some gifts via 69ers that visited USA (e.g Kyaw Nyunt)

• Some donated and/ or joined virtually (via Zoom or Messenger).

Will go on Sharing & Charing

until the Last 69er

• The following gives an account of 69ers & their gatherings.
• Need input, feedback & suggestions to have a comprehensive album.

Donors & Volunteers

• Aung Min (M) is Chair of 69er Health Care Fund. He & his team organized 69er events. They have updated Contact List several times.

• Myint Myint, Ivan & Sein Myint are major donors. Others (e.g Mehm Aye Chan) make recurring and lump sum donations.

• There are many unsung heros. Despite having limitations due to an injury at work, Ko Shwe drove long distance to collect donations.

• Others visited 69ers in hospitals & homes (e.g to aid health care or offer Kutho donation).

1964 – 65

• About 320 were admitted to 2nd BE in Nov 1964
• Most graduated in 1969.
• Luyechun program started in 1964 for high school & middle school. The program was expanded in 1965 for Universities & Institutes.

See also

• From BIT to YTU
• Luyechun
• Memories of a 69er
• RIT Days

1966 – 69

Tennis

• Inter-Institute Trophy winners
• Kyaw Nyunt (M, GBNF)
• Than Htay (EE)
• …

Badminton

• Inter-Institute Trophy winners
• Sai Kham Pan (EP) : Burma Selected
• Bishnu (EP, GBNF)
• Myint Sein (M, GBNF)
• …

Track & Field

• Aung Gyi Shwe (EP, GBNF) : Secretary
• Margaret (Khin Than Myint Tin)
• Myo Nyunt (C) : Joint Secretary — for Henry Khin Maung Lay (T68)
• …

Swimming & Water Polo

• Htay Aung (M) : Burma Selected; Fifth SEAP Games
• Hla Kyaing (M)
• Han Sein (C, GBNF)
• Jimmy Kyin (T, GBNF)
• Sein Myint (EP)
• Swan Kong (?)
• Win Maung (Lake)
• Moe Hein (ChE)
• …

Rowing

• Chit Po Po (M, GBNF)
• Hla Min (EC) : Treasurer & Vice Captain of RUBC
• Sein Myint (EP)
• Win Maung (Lake)
• Win Naing (Dicky, M, GBNF) : recruited David, Fred, Ohn Mg & Sein Tun
• …

Table Tennis

• Tin Myint (John, M, GBNF) : also Luyechun for 4th BE
• …

Basketball

• Han Sein (C, GBNF)
• Soe Win (EP, GBNF) : RIT Captain
• Tommy (EP, GBNF)
• Lyo Kyin Sein
• …

Body Building & Weightlifting

• Aung Gyi Shwe (EP, GBNF) : also T&F, Soccer
• Jimmy Kyin (T, GBNF) : also Swimming & Water Polo
• Khin Win (EP, GBNF)
• …

Chinlon

• Tin Shein (M)
• Htin Aung (C)
• …

Thaing

• Tin Tun (M, GBNF) : Secretary
• Tun Aung Gyaw (EC) : Jt. Secretary
• …

Hiking & Mountaineering

• Win Lwin (M)
• …

Engg Associations

• Hla Myint Thein (C) — Secretary
• Myo Khin (C) — Secretary
• Mehm Ye Win (EC) — Secretary
• Hla Min (EC) — Secretary & Hlyat Sit Sar Saung
• Aye Lwin (M) — Secretary & RIT Annual Magazine
• …

Ah Nu Pyinnya Ah Thin

• Taing Oke (ChE) — Zat Saya
• Kyaw Htin (T) — Lu Shwin Daw
• Than Myaing (M) — Violin
• Tin Maung Aye (M) — Accordion
• …

Writers

• Aung Myint (Pet) : Kyant Ba Hone (Cartoon); Tech & Edu Notes
• Taing Oke : Yin Maung; National Literary Award
• Tin Htut (Harry, M) : Mon Yu
• Win Thein Zaw : Wai Lu
• …

69ers at Inya

• Nay Win, Yee Pin, Khin Mg Gyi & Chit Po Po are GBNF

See also

• Activities
• Celebrations
• Publications
• RIT & Burma Selected
• Sports

EE69

• See post with annotations by Thein Swe (GBNF, Luyechun for 3rd BE) & me

Graduates

• Mostly Mech
• Aung Thu Yein (E), Kyaw Than (Met?), Nay Win (M), Khin Maung Gyi (M) & Toby (A) are some of the GBNF
• Most worked for government and industry. Some joined the Faculty. A few worked for private & family business. Some went overseas.

See also

• 69er — Memories
• Then & Now
• How Time Flies

1970 – 1998

• There were no formal Reunions.
• Most were busy with their work and family.
• In the mid 1990s, Danny discussed with some friends about a 69er Reunion.

1999

• 30th Anniversary of Graduation; See Danny’s post about the event
• I started “RIT Alumni Newsletter”; See my posts

2000

• First RIT Alumni Reunion and Saya Pu Zaw Pwe (SPZP-2000) in the SF Bay Area : Oct 29 – 30, 2000 ; See posts about SPZP-2000
• I was an Organizer & Chief Editor of the special issue of “RIT Alumni Newsletter”
• (First) Alumni Appreciation Award received at SPZP-2000; Also given to KMZ (webmaster) & Maurice (core organizer)
• Tint Lwin (Danny, M), Tin Myint (John, M), Lyo Kyin Sein (Mabel, T), Mg Toung (Tom, EC) & Myo Khin (C) attended SPZP-2000. Danny came from Singapore. John & Mabel live in Union City, California. Tom came from Connecticut. Myo Khin & Winsome (C73) came from Japan.

2009

• 40th Anniversary of Graduation; See post for the event
• Group photos : Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Textile, Chemical

2014

• 50th Anniversary of RIT; See post about the event
• Pseudo Golden Jubilee for 69ers

2015

• Myint Myint (C) hosted a Welcome Lunch Gathering at Western Park for Nyunt Nyunt Wai (Millie, T)

• Six 69ers at Ivan’s house. Ivan hosted annual RIT-UCC gathering for over a decade. Eventually, MASTAA was established with Ivan as CEO.

2016

• (Second) Alumni Appreciation Award at the Birthday Soon Kyway Gathering in August; Organized by Maurice Chee (M75); Most attendees from California

• (Third) Appreciation Award at NorCal RITAA Annual Dinner in September

• SPZP-2016

• Gathering — Welcome Sein Myint & me; Farewell to Tint Lwin

2017

• Monthly Gatherings
• Ad hoc Gatherings
• Annual Gathering

2018

• Monthly Gatherings
• Ad hoc Gatherings
• Annual Gatheting

2019

Golden Jubilee of Graduation

• Home coming for Tin Tin (Ann)

2020 – 2021

• SPZP-2000 canceled due to Pandemic
• Several 69ers & family members succumbed to Covid
• Gatherings put on hold

2022

December

2023

August

September 2023

အလှူရှင်

• ဦးငွေထွန်း၊
• ဦးတင်ရှိန်၊
• ဦးသန်းဝင်း၊
• ဦးချမ်းငြိမ်း၊
• ဒေါ်ခင်သန်းမြင့်တင်၊
• ဦးစောမြင့်နိုင်၊
• ဦးဖေဟန်ထွန်း
• U Zaw Win (Thailand)
• Albert Kyaw Min

Dear RIT 69++friends

ဖိတ်ကြားအပ်ပါတယ်

September breakfast gathering သို့ မပျက်မကွက် ကြွရောက်ကြပါခင်ဗျား။

တော်ဝင်နှင်းဆီ / ၂၄/၉/၂၀၂၃ (တနင်္ဂနွေ) ၊ ၇:၀၀ မှ ၈:၃၀ နာရီ မှာဆုံကြမယ်။

ကိုငွေထွန်း၊ကိုသန်းဝင်း၊ကိုတင်ရှိန်၊ကိုစောမြင့်နိုင်၊ကိုဖေဟန်ထွန်း၊ကိုချမ်းငြိမ်း၊မာဂရက်၊Albertနှင့် ကိုဇော်ဝင်း(ထိုင်း) ပေါင်း ၉ ဦးတို့က အာဟာရ ဒါန ပြုကြပါမယ်။နီး/ဝေး/ပြည်ပ သူငယ်ချင်းများရဲ့ စေတနာပါ။ကြွလာချီးမြှင့်ဖို့ ထပ်မံတိုက်တွန်းပါရစေ။

စားပြီးရင် ၉၃ နှစ်ပြည့် ဆရာ ဦးဘသန်းအား သွားရောက် ဂါရဝ ပြုပါမယ်။ဆရာနေကောင်းပါတယ် အပြော နဲ့ သတိ အားနည်းလာပြီ။အလှူငွေများကို နောက်ဆုံးအချိန်ထိ လက်ခံပေးသွားပါ့မယ်။လိုက်ပါလိုသူ အကန့်အသတ်မရှိပါ။

2025

June

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