Saya was Assistant Workshop Superintendent. U Phone Myint was the Superintendent.
Spouse : Daw Thida Swe
U Tin Maung Oo & Daw Thida
He passed away on July, 2016.
Message from Sayagyi Dr. Aung Gyi
Ko Hla Min.
I am sad to know that Ko Tin Maung Oo had passed away. He seemed to be OK when I met him at RIT Reunion in. LA. He was a nice and good person. I will miss him. Please convey my condolences to Daw Thida Swe.
Aung Gyi
Message from Saya U Phone Myint
Dear Thida Swe
Very sad to hear the news about U Tin Maung Oo’s passing away from U Hla Min. We worked together at RIT Workshops Dept. I and my family offer our sincere condolences to you and your family.
I called you this evening but I couldn’t reach you.
With best regards, Phone Myint
Editor’s notes
U Phone Myint succeeded Saya Simon as Workshop Superintendent.
U Tin Maung Oo served as the Assistant Superintendent. He later moved to Southern California, USA.
Served as President of the RIT Badminton Association.
U Thein Lwin 1U Thein Lwin 2
He is the elder brother of Ko Kyi Lwin (George, C67), Ko Tint Lwin (Daniel, M69), Ko Thet Lwin (Henry, EE72), Ko Myo Myint (ChE from US), Nellie, Peggy, …
He passed away in June, 2017
Daw May Than Nwe (Physics)
Daw May Than Nwe & U Thein Lwin
Sayama stood first in her Honors Class in 1962.
She is the spouse of Saya U Thein Lwin.
She passed away in April, 2017
69ers
U Myint Thein (Kabar, M69) Core organizer from the Class of 69
KabarKabar & Chit Tin
U Chit Tin (EC69) Third GBNF of the 12 EC69ers. Ko Kyaw Soe and Ko Aung Thu Yein (Brownie) are other EC69ers who are GBNF.
Chit Tin
U Saw Yan Naing (Bo Bo, C69) He was from Meikhtila. He settled in Mandalay.We had not seen him after graduation. He is the spouse of U Tun Aung Gyaw (EC69)’s cousin.
U Tin Myint (L. Tan Choy, John T Lee, M69, US) : He was from Taunggyi. He settled in Union City, California. He was Luyecun for 4th BE. He represented RIT in Table Tennis. Spouse : Lyo Kyin Sein (Mabel, T69)
Tin Myint 1Tin Myint 2
Paulians
Dr. Myo San (Freddie Ba San, SPHS63, IM1 70) : He stood 3rd in Burma in Matriculation. He became a surgeon, but had to take early retirement.
Freddie
U Myint Sein (alumni of Boundary Road School, St. Paul’s and Institute of Economics) : Past Principal, BARB (Burma Astro Research Bureau); Principal, IDEAL Astro
Myint Sein
RIT
U Aung Myint (M67, USA) : Worked with Unicef; Moved to California, USA; Helped Ko Win Thein (M67, GBNF) on “Set Hmu Thadin Zin” and Mechanical Magazine
Saya U Myo Win (Melivn, M65, Australia) : Rowed for RIT; Co-managed RIT Auto Club; He and Saya U Charlie, M65 led RIT Gathering in Sydney in 2006. His spouse is the elder sister of U Tin Aung Win (Tom Aung Gyaw).
U Myo Win & Auto ClubU Myo Win
Others
Sayama Daw Than Than : Spouse of Saya U Khin Maung Myint (Chemistry, GBNF); Mother of Ko Wynn Myint Aung (EC76, GBNF); She was healthy, but unexpectedly succumbed to pneumonia. She passed away EXACTLY one year after her younger son died.
U Kyaw Zaw : Spouse of Daw Khin Khin Aye (Principal, PBRS); He was States Scholar in the early 50s to study about Motion Pictures Technology in the USA. His elder son Thane Myint married Ma Khin Than Nu (Glory, EC70).
U Kyaw Zaw
Dr. Barry Paw (MD, Ph.D) : He is the only child of Saya U Htin Paw (EE58, GBNF). He is a nephew of U Tun Thein (A) and a cousin of Ko Robert Hla Thein (M72). He is Harvard medical school Professor, Boston children Hospital co-founder. He succumbed to a heart attack.on Dec 29, 2017 in Denver when he came back from Australia.
Swam almost daily Even when he was visiting Singapore on business trips.
GBNF
Invitation to SPZP-2000
Saya was invited by his former students in the US and Singapore to attend SPZP-2000.
He gently declined the offer.
Told his students to sponsor EE saya who had not been to the US.
Said that he had been to the US for his studies. | He was a top student at the University of Michigan, USA.
With permission from Saya Allen Htay, we are printing the letter from Saya U Sein Win.
Saya’s Letter
Dear Allen & Ko San Hla Aung,
Long time no see!
Since I retired in 1993, I have been doing odd jobs. I was a mechanical and electrical supervisor for about 6 months at the FMI shopping center constructing job. Then after the construction phase, I retired, doing nothing, except to drive my youngest daughter to various tuition places.
For the last two years, I worked part-time again, 3 times a week, from 11:00 a.m to 5 p.m., as a consultant for the maintenance of mechanical and electrical works, as my youngest daughter finished her matriculation classes.
Since last month, I have another part-time jobs as consultant to a UPS selling company, working on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I am now in Singapore for a week, at the Liebert UPS (USA based Ohio Co.) Co., for servicing and repair of UPSs and am going back [on Tuesday] with one of the company men.
Since both my jobs are part-time jobs, and I am on company’s expense here, I do not have any leave privileges, etc. and I am sorry I can’t afford to go to USA.
My eldest daughter and my second daughter are now medical doctors. My youngest is now reading for her first year medical course. I am still living in the same old house near the Inya Lake.
I hope both of you are healthy as I am now a health buff and tried to stay in health but at this age nobody can say what will happen as I noticed, looking up obituaries of people around my age in the newspaper and see the names of old friends.
Yours, —- auld lang syne— Sein Win
Anecdote
Saya U Sein Win left his brand new spouse at a Zay (presumably Bogyoke Zay).
Saya went back to RIT, and had a long discussion with his students.
The students asked, “How is Sayagadaw?”
Saya’s reply : “Let’s end the discussion. It’s past time I should have picked her up at the Zay”.
Uzin Bobby Myo Tun (A69) wrote :
Classic example of ‘the absent-minded professor!’
U Aung Myint (UCC) wrote :
I heard about that from some of the students or from the Lab staffs while I was in EC lab: What I heard was a little different. What I heard was “He parked at Hledan Zay. His wife went for buying. He was waiting inside the car. Suddenly he got an idea of taking hair cut nearby instead of waiting for a long time. After hair cutting he forgot everything and drove the car alone. I don’t know if that is true or not.
Sayama Daw Khin Saw Tint taught English at RIT. Her friends call her Anne
Sayama comes from a lineage of Statesmen and Scholars.
Her uncles : U Tin Tut (First Burmese to be invited to be ICS; Minister; Newspaper Publisher …) U Kyaw Myint (Dean of Law; Supreme Court Justice; Chair of Tribunal to try Galon U Saw …) U Myint Thein (Chief Justice of the Union of Burma; Ambassador; Author : MMT …) Dr. Htin Aung (First native Rector of RU; Distinguished author; Folklorist …)
Her mother Daw Khin Saw Mu studied under Sayagyi U Pe Maung Tin. She wrote “Khit San Kabyar”.
Her aunts : Daw Khin Mya Mu (Kyauksar Expert; Thamadi Myo Wun; Spouse of Burmese Professor U E Maung) Daw Tin Saw Mu (Senior Lecturer, English, RU)
Sayama is a bilingual author. Wrote about 30 books She wrote about the “Three Sisters : Mom & Aunts”
Sayama donated K5 Lakhs for the YTU Library Modernization project.
She told U Wynn Hytain Oo (M72, Hmaw Sayagyi) that “It would be nice if Swel Daw Yeik Foundation could consider providing some aid to needy Sayas and Sayamas from non-Engineering Departments.”
HlaMin 