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
Photos
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
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 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)
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
Attended GTI for a while before joining the first ever 1st BE class in 1964.
MS from Stanford University
MBA from Pepperdine University
First career : Electronics Designer
Second career : Co-founder and CEO, QTC Management His sister (a medical doctor who had patents for processing “disability” claims) requested him to co-found QTC.
After private investors showed interest in his company, he “retired
Continued to lead a multiple-purpose career: (a) visiting the places of the world’s leading religions (b) incubating the projects of young professionals (c) supporting education (e.g. as trustee of University of California at Irvine) via Kay Family Foundation (d) maintaining [diverse] business portfolio (e) helping those in need (via Charitable Alliance of Burmese Americans) (f) continue paying back the metta and cetana of his mentors — as Golden Sponsor of RIT Grand Reunion and Saya Pu Zaw Pwes, Helen and Steeve Kay Health Care Fund for the RIT Sayas and Sayamas.
From the SPZP-2000 Archives
RIT Poet Laureate Ko Hla Min:
I must admit that I was suffering from a Monday morning “hangover”, having been intoxicated with emotional overdose over the reunion weekend [in October 2000].
Judging from the post-reunion emails I read, I am not alone. What a reunion!
By all measures, it was a success and did satisfy the alumni’s tremendous pent-up desire to reconnect with each other after many decades of separation. The dedication of the members of the organizing committee is second to none.
With the assistance of his lovely wife, Benny Tan devoted practically full-time to this project for several months. I had a first-hand experience to see how meticulous he was when he was designing the RIT T-shirt. It came out a winner!
I do appreciate the sensitivity the organizing committee displayed in making this event non-religious and non-political. Otherwise, it would have been very difficult for me to attend. The only regret is that I failed to locate the whereabouts of my buddy Ko Aung Min of Taunggyi (ME 70). I heard he went to Singapore, but so far my search has ended in “no find”.
Now that the grand reunion is over, everybody is slowly recovering from the “hangover”. The big question is who would go to Singapore in 2002, and how do we go about doing it?
I still feel strongly we lost a good relative and a friend for lack of PPE in UK!!!! I would understand if this happened in a poor country.
Dr. Ruby (Peter’s aunt) wrote:
Minko and Ye. Lay, The recognition of your father‘s outstanding achievements in medicine and the high evaluation of his qualities and character as well as the impression his personality made on people whom he worked with and shared his life will be remembered ……this award which will be named after him can be no consolation for your great loss,but take pride in the fact that he will always be present and honoured. We are glad to share the comforting news.
Professor Aye Maung Han
Retired as Rector of UM 1. He was a Professor of Paediatrics before taking Rector post.
Remembering Peter Khin Tun
Peter gave his life while fighting against Covid-19 a highly infectious and most deadly virus the world has ever encountered. He died as a Hero for not just being in the front line in this battle but also for his courage to speak out against the Commanders in the NHS who recklessly place the lives of his colleagues at high risks. Everyone knew Peter as soft spoken and humble but when it needs be, he’s bold and straightforward.
I have known Peter since he was a final year Medical student in 1980. He may not be the top student in his class but he’s highly intelligent and amicable. His patients and colleagues loved him dearly because of his empathy, compassion and unwavering devotion. I could still remember about a patient when he was a House Officer in my Ward at Yangon Children’s Hospital. He was taking responsibility of monitoring and treating an extremely sick child with very severe pneumonia. He was beside this patient the whole time, reporting the progress and discussing with me how he could provide the best possible treatment. Thanks to Peter’s diligence the patient recovered fully and went home happily.
He has a special charisma that could motivate his juniors to work . His sense of humor is also a stress reliever for many around him. His generosity and kindness has helped many during their difficult times.
He has been such a fabulous person and will be remembered him for his Metta and Setana for everyone. He’s like a brother to me whom I find him to be honest, trustworthy and reliable. Taking all these virtues together, he’s matchless and exceptional amongst his peers.
His Sila, Samadhi and Pyinnya ( from meditation) will surely attribute to earn his place in a higher realm. Peter’s unexpected demise has created an emptiness not only for his family but also to people like us who has great affection for him.
Good Friends, are hard to find, harder to leave and impossible to forget.
HlaMin 