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.
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
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Pon Tuby Bagyee Myat Myo MyintU Aung MyaingDaw Gyn YuChE Gatheringhosted by Saya GeorgeClass of 72 Micro-gatheringPaying respect to Dr. Maung Maung WinChE GatheringPoemTranslation of PoemAlumni Gathering hosted by U Aung Myaing & Daw Gyn Yu
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Mg Mar Ga wrote :
လက်တွဲညီသောစုံတွဲကျောင်းတုန်းကမဂင်ယုတို့နေ့လည်ထမင်းစားဆင်းလာရင် ဂင်ယုနင့်ကိုငါချစ်တယ် လို့ A Block ကနေစခဲ့နောက်ခဲ့တာအားနာလိုက်တာအခုတော့မောင်နှမတွေဖြစ်နေပြီေအောင်မြိုင်ကတော့အစထဲကညီအကိုဖြစ်နေတာ ကျန်တော်လုပ်တဲ့အများအကျိုးမှန်သမျှသူတို့မပါတာတခုမှမရှိ တကယ်သာနတ်ဖြစ်ကြေးဆိုရင်neighbour ဖြစ်မှာသေချာ အကိုလှမင်းလဲအိမ်နီးချင်းဖြစ်မှာ
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
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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 OrganizersEE Group at SPZP-2000SF Bay AreaGatheringSF Bay AreaGatheringSF Bay AreaGatheringSF Bay AreaGatheringSeattle, WashingtonSeattle, WashingtonWith Dr. Htay Lwin Nyo (EP74, GBNF)Grading CertificateSingaporeSingaporeYangonWith Wynn Myint Aung (EC76)
Sponsors include BADA, BAWA, Citizen of Burma Award, …
Date : September 15, 2018
Time : 5pm – 9+ pm
Place : Swiss Park, Newark, CA
Aw Pi Kyeh
Aw Pi Kyeh is from the Class of 81 and 82. As “Mann Bei”, he contributed and managed the RIT Cartoon Box. He served as Secretary of the RIT Cartoon Association. He spoke about “Made in Myanmar”. He pointed out that his dress sadly is made from neighboring countries. He lamented the loss of countless lives in Cyclone Nargis due to “insufficient knowledge” (e.g. about Disaster Recovery). His talk combines wit, and philosophy.
During his study at Harvard, he proudly spent US$30 to buy a backpack labeled “Made in Myanmar”. His friend bought a similar backpack but labeled “Made in Sri Lanka”. The seam of his back pack broke after a week. Before his return to Myanmar, his friend gave him his backpack. He felt somewhat mad, but accepted it. He went on to use the backpack in Myanmar until it got discolored and his spouse asked him to stop using it. The message is that one not only needs Cetana but also the skills to provide “added advantage”. He gave examples of how others (nations and their companies) used our natural resources and our local talents to create products (and often sell them back at profit). He also requested those overseas to use “conversion” to understand the “thinking” of those living in Myanmar (possibly most of their lives) as a baby step to help making “Made in Myanmar” proud and reliable.
Min Ko Naing
Min Ko Naing is the pen name of Paw Oo Tun (author, artist, student activist …). He was a 3rd year student at RASU, when he became a student leader of the 8-8-88 movement.
He visited the San Francisco Bay Area a few years ago with Ko Ko Gyi. They talked mainly about the injustice system and the brutal regimes.
He gave a talk for the SF Bay Area Annual Talks 2018 along with Aw Pi Kyeh.
There were some anecdotes about their prison life. One political prisoner begged his prison mates to give him a pain reliever. Most people did not have courage to provide one. One had cetana and courage, but lacked medical knowledge. He gave Buspro to the wailing prisoner, who was relieved of pain forever.
He recounted his observations of the educational and social systems of the countries that he had visited. He was impressed with some systems which take the nursery children out into the open and teach lessons from nature, and those that allow students to pursue any combination of subjects provided they envision a problem to solve using the mix.
He lamented about how most parents and students in Myanmar prepare at all costs for that “all important Matriculation examination” to pursue two or three high profile professions.
The talk is more suitable for the general audience in Myanmar.
Kudos to the activist turned “evangelist for critical thinking and social change”.
Dr. Thynn Thynn wrote : Good observations Ko Hla Min…. I think he was trying to convince that the children in Burma deserve the benefits of open education system the children of the expat audience whom he had tried to seek support for the help of expat Burmese youth community to go in to Burma to help or some sort of set an example for those underprivileged kids in side the country. The talk was only half of what he came to say I think.
Dr. Nyunt Wai wrote : Good to know two of you are good friends. Converging point for technical and medical streams?
Literary Talk in Los Angeles
The hosts choose the first talk to be held in Northern California and the final talk to be held in Southern California.
By coincidence, I had the chance to meet Aw Pi Kyeh twice and to meet Min Ko Naing three times.
U Yu Ket (Edward Saw, EC85) gave me a ride to Los Angeles and Saya U Tin Htut hosted me and took me to two events :
Annual dinner of BASES (as Saya’s guest)
La Peunte monastery which had a festival in the morning and the literary talk by Aw Pi Kyeh and Min Ko Naing in the afternoon.
Saya U Tin Htut bought a book and received an autographed copy.
Aw Pi Kyeh told us that he did not drink during the Waso, but that he would resume drinking in a few days (at the end of the Buddhist Lent).
Literary Talk at the YSE Fund raiser
The Youth Society of Education (YSE) invited two guest speakers at their Fund Raiser.
Myinmu Naing Moe
Myinmu Naing Moe is a poet, vocalist, author, publisher)
Born as Ohn Maung, he became a poet and won the National Literary Award seven times.
He gave a literary talk on “His life and his Kabyas (Poems)”.
He talked about “Su-Tu-Pyu” paradigm proposed by Sayagyi Minthuwun.
He gave the background of his early school life, the sacrifice of his beloved mother, a story from Buddha’s time, Saya Zawgyi’s poems … and then recited relevant poems.
Since the talks were done in the hall where the fund raising was ongoing, the Master of Ceremonies had to request some who forgot the etiquette.
May Kyawt Shin
May Kyawt Shin is a broadcaster, vocalist, and author.
Founding member of RIT Alumni International and first President
Wrote a classic article for SPZP-2000 to raise awareness of the First RIT Grand Reunion and Saya Pu Zaw Pwe
Saya passed away several years back
In Saya’s memory, Daw Mu Mu Khin donated Saya’s books to YTU Library provided financial support for eligible YTU students
Donation of Saya Allen’s Books
Brother, can you afford US $500?
by Allen Htay
And many weekends spent away from your family as well? If you can then you probably are a member of the RIT Grand Reunion and Saya Pu Zaw Pwe organizing committee.
It all began one day several months ago when we met over lunch at Benny Tan’s home in Hillsborough. Ko Hla Min and Ko Khin Maung Zaw among the lunch party had started the RIT Alumni website and were receiving enthusiastic responses. Hearing that the duo were carrying on the project all by themselves we decided to throw in our moral and financial support to assure its survival, realizing that it was providing a needed service for the RIT alumni to locate and communicate with each other. Every one present, ten of us at that time, took out our checkbooks and wrote out one hundred dollars each, with promises of more as needed. We informally called ourselves the RIT Alumni Bay Area Group. I was asked to be the group leader.
After that fateful event we continue to have regular meetings, hosted in turn at the homes of some among group members: Ko Hla Min, Maurice Chee, Ko Myat Htoo, Ko Thein Aung, and most recently Dr Nyo Win. Did I leave out any one? Ah yes! Ko Myint Swe and San San Swe. All the while the membership continues to grow and our objective keeps on changing from support of the website to some vague dream of a future RIT alumni organization on a global scale and finally settled on a plan for RIT Alumni Grand Reunion at the beginning of the 21st Century. Ko Hla Min broached the idea to include Saya Pu Zaw Pwe as part of the Grand Reunion in keeping with the Myanmar custom of honoring one’s teachers. As our plan jelled we got carried away by our own excitement and started talking about holding the reunion before the end of the Year 2000. After all, ending one millennium successfully augers well for success in the next millennium.
Before we fully realized what we were up to we have found an ideal site, the Embassy Suites Hotel conference hall near the San Francisco International Airport, and found ourselves making a commitment for a definite date, 28 October 2000 and a attendance fee of fifty dollars, a modest amount to encourage maximum number of Alumni to participate. The minimum capacity of the conference hall is 200 seats and we were required to make down payment and sign a rental and service agreement based on 200 seatings. Our most optimistic estimate at the time was 100 attendees. If the attendance is low that means the Bay Area Group, as the Organizing Committee was not in force at the time, will have to make up the short fall. Which could amount to as much as five thousand dollars, or five hundred dollar from each group member. We hesitated a moment to reflect on what that means to us individually in terms of diminished spending power. But, in the end our attachment to RIT and the engineering profession, our sincere desire to meet the Sayas and class mates from whom we were separated for long over came us. We will accept the risks.
Thus was born the preparations in full swing for the Grand RIT Reunion and Saya Pu Zaw Pwe. Others must tell the rest of the story – of struggles, compromises, and elations along the way and from participants themselves what it means to be present at the defining moment in the history of RIT Alumni.
Allen Htay, RIT Alumni International – Bay Area Group RIT Grand Reunion and Saya Pu Zaw Pwe Organizing Committee
Saya Allen, Dr, San Lin and Hla MinClass of C58SF Bay Area RIT Alumni Group
HlaMin 