Category: 1980s

Events & Classes

  • Exhibition and Donation by Bagyee Myat Myo Myint

    ပန်းချီ မြတ်မျိုးမြင့် — ဝါသနာ၊ စေတနာ

    ပန်းချီ ပြပွဲ — အလှူ

    • ရန်ကုန် စက်မှုတက္ကသိုလ် ကျောင်းသားဟောင်း မိတ်ဆုံ စားပွဲ နဲ့ အာစရိယပူဇော်ပွဲ
    • ပန်းချီရောင်းရငွေ အများစု ကို ကျောင်း၊ ပူဇော်ပွဲ၊ လူမှုရေး၊ ကျမ်းမာရေး တို့အတွက် လှူ

    ပန်းချီ ပြခန်း

    ပုံတူ — အလှူ

    • ဆရာ ဆရာမ 70 ခန့် ကို ပုံတူ ရေးဆွဲ ပူဇော်
    • ထင်ရှား ပုဂ္ဂိုလ် များ ကို လည်း ဂုဏ်ပြု

    ပါချုပ် ဦးရုံးမို U Yone Mo

    ပါချုပ် Dr အောင်ကြီး Dr. Aung Gyi

    ဦးဘသန်း U Ba Than (93 years young)

    Pon Tu Archive

    • ပုံတူများကို ဆရာ ဦးကျော်စိန် က archive လုပ်
    • ဆရာ ဦးတင်လင်းက annotate လုပ်

    General အထွေထွေ

    ဦးထင်ကျော် (ဒလဘန်း)

    *

  • U Myint Pe (M72)

    Brief Bio

    • Matriculated from No. (1) State High School, Pegu
    • Worked at Sin De, where he found his soul mate
    • Became seafarer and founded a company

    Activities and Achievements

    • Lushwin Daw Seit Kyi

    Swel Daw Yeik Ah Nyeint

    Performed at RU Golden Jubilee

    • Founder, RIT Cartoon Box

    Revived Cartoon Box, SPZP-2012

    Organizer, RIT Cartoon Collection

    • Founder & inaugural Secretary

    Swel Daw Yeik Foundation (SDYF)

    First meeting hosted by U Win Naing

    • Founder & Admin, RIT U70 Group

    Vocalist

    • Organizer, SPZPs in Yangon

    Entertainment Program

    Exhibitions

    • Member and/or EC

    HMEE project

    Alumni Association

    Swel Daw Yeik Magazine

    MES (Young Engineers Program)

    MEC

    Photos

    Mechanical Engineering 72 Class Photo
    Spouse

    U Moe Aung wrote :

    ကြာပါပြီ၊ ဒါပေမဲ့မှတ်မိနေသေးတယ်လေ။
    အီမ်ကို ကိုမြင့်ဖေလာတုန်းက ကိစ္စပြီးလို့ပြန်လည်းသွားရော ကျွန်တော့်အမေကဘာပြောလဲသိလား။
    ဒီသူငယ်လေးက အတော်ချောတာပဲနော်တဲ့…

    U Myint Pe’s reply :

    ဟီးဟီး.
    အမေက ဟုတ်တာပြော ပြောပါစေဆရာရယ်။
    ဆရာက ကျနော်အရွယ်တုန်းက မင်းသားပါဘဲ

    At Mya Myit Mo Hotel in Syriam

    U Moe Aung wrote :

    ကိုရဲမြင့်စိုးရဲ့ သန်လျင် မြမြင့်မိုရ်ဟိုတယ်ရှိနေသေးစဥ်တုန်းက စုရိုက်ထားတာ။ ၁၀ နှစ်နီးပါးလောက်တော့ရှိပြီထင်ပါတယ်။

    Ah Hlu with Ko Khin Maung Toe (GBNF)
    Meeting to discuss the establishment of Swel Daw Yeik Foundation (hosted by U Win Naing)

    Myint Pe wrote :
    ဒီပုံက ကျနော်တို့ စွယ်တော်ရိပ်ဖောင်ဒေးရှင်းဖြစ်မြောက်ရေးကော်မီတီ ပထမဆုံးလုပ်တဲ့အစည်းအဝေးပါ။ ကိုဝင်းနိုင်အိမ်မှာလုပ်တာဖြစ်ပြီး ဝင်းထိန်ဦးကို ကျနော်ကဖိတ်ခေါ်ပြီး ဖောင်ဒေးရှင်းမှာ ပါဝင်ဘို့ ခေါ်လိုက်လို့ပထမဆုံးတက်တဲ့အစည်းအဝေးဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

    72 Lunch Gathering at an Indian Restaurant
    Fighting Friends (Mg Mar Ga & Nyin Pe)

    Aung Myaing wrote :

    ကျနော်တို့ အုပ်စုမှာ အဲဒီ နှစ်ယောက် ရန်အဖြစ်ဆုဲး။ ပြီးတော့လည်း ပြီးတာပါဘဲ။ ခဏအကြာ ကျောင်းကိစ္စအတူတူလက်တွဲ လုပ်ကြပြန်ရော။

    HMEE-2012 Project Members
    Led by Saya U Aung Hla Tun (GBNF)

    U Moe Aung wrote :

    စွယ်တော်ရိပ်မဂ္ဂဇင်းထုတ်ဝေရေး…

    • Cartoon & Cartoonists
    Cartoon
    Cartoon
    Cartoon
    Cartoonists & Supporter

    Notes

    • Gave me ride from SPZP meeting to Gyogone Campus to attend M72 Reunion and Acariya Pu Zaw Pwe

    Gave ride to Saya U Moe Aung back home. On the way, they discussed about SDYF.

    • He is a Cancer Survivor.

    He, Mg Mar Ga and Ko Saw Lin (GBNF) —- SPZP-2012 organizers — had medical problems, but displayed the RIT Spirit.

    • He lost his beloved spouse.

    He offered monthly Dana for her.

    • Nicknames : Nyin Pe, Mike Khe, Yet Yaw
    • Requested him to provide highlights of his career.

    Feedback

    • U Myint Pe wrote :

    ကျေးဇူးအထူးတင်ပါတယ် အကိုလှမင်းခင်ဗျား။

    အခုနောက်ဆုံး Title ကတော့ Founder and Admin of RIT U70(မြန်မာသံစဥ်မြတ်နိုးသူများ) group page. ဖြစ်ပါတယ်ခင်ဗျား။

    အကိုရေ အရေးကြီးတဲ့ဘဝမှတ်တိုင်တခုထပ်ဖြည့်ပါရစေ၊

    One of the founder of Swel Daw Yeik Foundation.လို့ ထပ်ဖြည့်ပါရစေ။

    တကယ်တော့ စွယ်တော်ရိပ်ဖောင်ဒေးရှင်း ထူထောက်ရန် Organizer စတင် စည်းရုံးလှုပ်ရှားပေးခဲ့သူဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

    ဆရာဦးမိုးအောင်ကို ဥက္ကဌနေရာမှာထားပြီး ကျနော်က အတွင်းရေးမှုအဖြစ် စွယ်တော်ရိပ်ဖောင်ဒေးရှင်းဖြစ်မြောက်ရေးကော်မီတီစတင်ဖွဲ့ပြီးမှ စွယ်တော်ရိပ်ဖောင်ဒေးရှင်း ထူထောင်ခဲ့တာဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

    ဒီပုံက ကျနော်တို့ စွယ်တော်ရိပ်ဖောင်ဒေးရှင်းဖြစ်မြောက်ရေးကော်မီတီ ပထမဆုံးလုပ်တဲ့အစည်းအဝေးပါ။ ကိုဝင်းနိုင်အိမ်မှာလုပ်တာဖြစ်ပြီး ဝင်းထိန်ဦးကို ကျနော်ကဖိတ်ခေါ်ပြီး ဖောင်ဒေးရှင်းမှာ ပါဝင်ဘို့ ခေါ်လိုက်လို့ပထမဆုံးတက်တဲ့အစည်းအဝေးဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

    • U Aung Myaing wrote :

    Cartoon Myint Pe

    Comedian Sait Kyi ( လူရွှင်တော် ဆိတ်ကြီး)

    A top vocalist of RIT U70

    • Saya U Moe Aung provided Captions for many photos
  • U Aung Myaing (ChE72)

    U Aung Myaing

    Aung Myaing wrote :

    ဒီပုံက ထိုင်းနိုင်ငံ ရေနံကုမ္ပဏီတစ်ခုဖြစ်တဲ့ IRPC (Integrated Refinery and Petrochemical Complex) ရဲ့ Refinery Technology Department က Chemical Engineers တွေ ကျနော့်ကို ဂုဏ်ပြုတဲ့အနေနဲ့ design လုပ်ထားတဲ့ ပုံပါ။ ပုံထဲမှာ IRPC မှာလုပ်စဉ်က ပြည်တွင်းပြည်ပ activities အချို့ကို စုစည်းဖေါ်ပြထားပါတယ်

    Tin Aung Win wrote :

    Proud of you.

    Win Thein Zaw (Wai Lu) wrote :

    ဂုဏ်ယူဝမ်းမြောက်ပါ၏ညီလေးဆရာရေ အများအားဖြင့်မြန်မာလူ‌တော်တွေနိုင်ငံခြားမှာအသုံးတည့်ပြီးအဆင်ပြေကြတယ်

    ကိုယ့်မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှာပဲ သို့ဂလိုအခြေအနေမျိုးဖြစ်စေချင်ကြောင်းပါလေ။

  • U Wynn Htain Oo (M72)

    Brief Bio

    • Matriculated from Central High School
    • Worked in Burma and overseas

    Activities & Achievements

    • M72 Group

    Reunion & Acariya Pu Zaw Pwe for two decades (invited all sayas who have taught them & classmates from other disciplines)

    Helped with the production of “Thamudaya Kyaung”

    • Patron, Swel Daw Yeik Foundation
    • Patron, Alumni Association

    * Organizer & Fundraiser

    SPZP

    Shwe YaDu

    YTU Library Modernization

    Flood relief & other disasters

    Eradication of Starvation

    Notes

    • Attended PBRS and U Khin Maung Latt Tuition
    • Had hip replacement surgery
    • Diabetes (under control for a long time)
    • Loves to cook for his Myees
    • Short & short-tempered, but gentle & kind
    • Boss of Hna Pyi, but has four Bosses in his family
    • Blogs (e.g grand uncle, parents, Bosses, friends, demonetization, visits, food, health)
    • Has five or more nicknames

    Photos

    Mg Mar Ga
    Membership Card
    Alumni Association
    Saya U Moe Aung
    Article

    Family

    Wedding
    Myees
    Extended Family
    Small Boss
    Dr. Myo Khin (Donor)
    Saya U Tin Htut (Donor)
    Sayama Daw Khin Saw Tint (Donor)
    Daw Myint Myint (Donor)
    James Shwe (Donor)
    Donors
    Sayama Daw Thida
    Fighting Friends
    Win Myint, Kyone Sein, Mg Mar Ga, Khin Maung Toe
    Friends
    71 Lunch Gathering
    Student Volunteers
    Alumni Gathering

    Feedback

    • U Kyaw Myint (T72, President of MARB) wrote :

    ဆရာကြီး ဆရာကြီး

    တို့တတွေရဲ့ ဆရာကြီး

    • Mg Mar Ga wrote :

    You have left out one of my prominent designations.

    HaHa.

    G S, general servant of class mech72.

    * My reply :

    We had to study “Servant Leadership”.

    * U Aung Myaing wrote :

    Once, I wondered how Mg Mar Ga managed his time to do various kinds of voluntary works without neglecting his household chores. Then I got an answer. It is his heart that makes sharing his time for the good of others possible.

  • U Aung Myaing (ChE72)

    Brief Bio

    • Matriculated from Okpo High School
    • Joined Chemical Engineering Department after graduation
    • Received Masters from RIT and Melbourne University
    • Taught at RIT for 18 years
    • Taught as full-time Lecturer at Rengsit University (Thailand) for 3 years
    • Taught Metallurgical students solid-gas reactions for two semesters at Chulalongkorn University of Thailand as part-time lecturer
    • Worked for a refinery and petrochemical complex in Thailand as a refinery technology manager/advisor for 26 years
    • Presented a number of papers about refinery at various international conferences
    • Retired but un-retired for a lucrative offer as Consultant

    Activities and Achievements

    • Member, RIT U70 Group
      Vocalist
      Producer, Music Videos
    • Organizer, Poetic Art Series
      Poet : Okpo Maung Yin Maung
    • Won the heart of Myeik Thu
      Ma Gyn Yu (ChE72) was the second youngest in the Class of 72
      She said to others, “Don’t you have Na Ma?”

    Notes

    • Split time between Thailand and California.
    • Read naming conventions
      Finally decided to use “Yu Aung” in their children’s names
    • Min Yu Aung (son)
      alumni of Assumption University
      worked in Telecommunications
    • Hnin Yu Aung (daughter)
      BS and MS from USA
      worked as Software Engineer
    • RIT Ambassadors in Thailand
      Helped sayas and alumni during their trips to Thailand (some for medical check up and treatment)
    • Recently hosted a BBQ lunch gathering at Hnin’s house
      Attendees :
      Saya George (U Maung Maung, ChE66) & spouse,
      Trixie Tan (ChE72),
      Saya U Thein Aung (Met72, Mr. RIT68) and Sandra (M76),
      me and my spouse

    Photos

    Pon Tu by Bagyee Myat Myo Myint
    U Aung Myaing
    Daw Gyn Yu
    ChE Gathering hosted by Saya George
    Class of 72
    Micro-gathering
    Paying respect to Dr. Maung Maung Win
    ChE Gathering
    Poem
    Translation of Poem
    Alumni Gathering hosted by U Aung Myaing & Daw Gyn Yu

    Feedback

    • Mg Mar Ga wrote :

    လက်တွဲညီသောစုံတွဲကျောင်းတုန်းကမဂင်ယုတို့နေ့လည်ထမင်းစားဆင်းလာရင် ဂင်ယုနင့်ကိုငါချစ်တယ် လို့ A Block ကနေစခဲ့နောက်ခဲ့တာအားနာလိုက်တာအခုတော့မောင်နှမတွေဖြစ်နေပြီ​ေအောင်မြိုင်ကတော့အစထဲကညီအကိုဖြစ်နေတာ ကျန်တော်လုပ်တဲ့အများအကျိုးမှန်သမျှသူတို့မပါတာတခုမှမရှိ တကယ်သာနတ်ဖြစ်ကြေးဆိုရင်neighbour ဖြစ်မှာသေချာ အကိုလှမင်းလဲအိမ်နီးချင်းဖြစ်မှာ

    Micro-gathering in Thailand in November 2022

    • U Aung Myaing & Daw Gyn Yu
    • U Khin Maung & Daw Khin Mu Mu
  • U Khin Maung Zaw (EC76)

    • Matriculated from No. 6 Botathaung SHS in 1970.
      When he joined the school was St. Paul’s High School (SPHS)
    • Graduated from RIT with BE (Electronics) in March 1977.
      Due to school closures, the Class of 76 graduated several months later.
      The discipline was earlier called EC (Electrical Communication).
    • UCC Alumni
    • Worked in Singapore and USA
    • Designed and implemented the first RIT website.
      Promised Version 2 of the website at SPZP-2000, but had to take a very long break
      from RIT-related activities after joining Microsoft
    • Most Eligible Bachelor found his soul mate (a charming young doctor) and raised a son

    Photos

    Mostly with RIT and UCC sayas and alumni

    • SPZP-2000
    • SF Bay Area Gatherings
    • Seattle, Washington
    • With Dr. Htay Lwin Nyo (EP74, GBNF)
    • Grading Certificate
    • Singapore
    • Yangon
    • With Wynn Myint Aung (EC76)

    Notes

    • Last defender on the All Universities and Institute Hockey Team
    • Represented RIT in Rowing|
    • Helped Maung Maung Hnyut and brothers with taking photos at the Convocations
    • Brought a spoon and fork to UCC. Ah Ma Gyis and Nyi Ma Lays shared their lunch with KMZ
    • ”Lost” his middle name and became known as Khin Zaw. Grapevine says that he received emails meant for Khin Zaw (UCC) from a young doctor and …
    • Many years back, he hosted us and showed us around (including a day trip to Vancouver).
    • He is a Moderator for the RIT Updates FB Group.
    SPZP-2000 Organizers
    EE Group at SPZP-2000
    SF Bay Area Gathering
    SF Bay Area Gathering
    SF Bay Area Gathering
    SF Bay Area Gathering
    Seattle, Washington
    Seattle, Washington
    With Dr. Htay Lwin Nyo (EP74, GBNF)
    Grading Certificate
    Singapore
    Singapore
    Yangon
    With Wynn Myint Aung (EC76)
  • Air Con for YTU Library

    James Shwe (Left)

    I [James Shwe] will donate $ 5000 but allow me to review the building plans (architectural, structural, electrical and HVAC) and the HVAC system load calculations. Allow me to put in my two cents worth of opinion. If the building envelope construction is not done well with wall & roof thermal insulation, fenestration heat gain control, infiltration control, etc. the system will get oversized and will cost a lot more to operate. We also have to think of controlling water damage from leaks and condensation. Humidity control is also important. Fan coils are constant volume variable temperature systems and don’t provide Good humidity control which is considered important here for libraries and museums. Off course, we have to look at the finances and maintenance. We can only do what is practical. I only want to see if things can be optimized within the budget!

  • iNapa Winery

    by Hla Min

    Updated : May 2025

    Gordon Kaung (M83) and Lillian Kaung (EC83) founded iNapa Winery.

    The Winery has hosted gatherings

    • for NorCal RITAA meetings
    • to welcome sayas visiting from overseas
    • to welcome staff of the Myanmar Consulate in Los Angeles

    Kan So Kan Kaung

    During the Napa fires, Gordon and Lillian had to follow their neighbor to get out from the back roads. They had to spend three weeks before returning to the Winery. They were relieved to find the buildings intact.

    Gathering at iNapa Winery on April 20, 2019

    Gordon Kaung (M83) and Lillian Kaung (EC83) hosted a gathering at iNapa Winery for U Tin Yu (Consul General for Los Angeles) and his family and invited guests from NorCal RITAA and the Myanmar Community.

    U Tin Yu and his spouse reminded me that they took courses at UCC as part of the requirement for M.Com. along with Sayama Daw Yin Yin Myint and Sayama Daw Hla Myint (Connie).

    It is the fourth overseas assignment for U Tin Yu. His previous assignments include Katmandu, Egypt and Canberra.

    On behalf of the Consulate in Los Angeles, U Tin Yu presented the Myanmar flag to iNapa winery.

    iNapa winery presented premium wine bottles to U Tin Yu, the Cosulate staff and Myanmar Gazette.

  • Daw Tin Aye (C73)

    • Member of the Civil Engg Volleyball team
      Ma Tin Aye, Myint Myint Than, Mya Sandar Bo …
    Civil Volleyball Team
    • She rowed as Bow for RIT Crew which won the Inter-Institute Coxed Fours.
      Kyi Kyi Win (Stroke, GBNF), Myint Myint Than, … Ma Tin Aye (Bow), Ko Myint Than (Cox)
    RIT Coxed Fours
    • She participated in the Tazaung Daing
      Mee Htun Pwe (Lighting the Candles)
    • She was a member of the Set Hmu Thadin Zin established by U Win Thein (M67, GBNF).
    • She was also an Organizer for Yangon SPZPs in 2012 and 2016.
    • C73 Group offered Soon in memory of the GBNF
      (including U Kyaw Lin, who passed away in Southern California)

    Some Engg Female Athletes

    • Khin Than Myint Tin (Margaret)
    • Lyo Kyin Sein
    • Nang Khaming
    • Tin Tin Myint (Emma)
    • Lei Lei Chit
    • Kyi Kyi Sein (Bei Oo)
    • Betty Prashad
    • Kyu Kyu Lin (Bawlone)
    • Early Female Engineers
    • G Hall Thu
    • Sports
  • James and Annette Shwe

    James Shwe (Jimmy Hla Shwe, M76) and Annette Shwe (A75) are early donors to the YTU Modernization Project.

    They also responded to a Fund Raising drive by Saya Dr. Tin Win (M62) for the YTU Modernization Project.

    They also donated to BASES.

    They offered internship to RIT alumni and Myanmar graduates at their company.