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by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

Arthur Lwin, Dr. (U Myo Min, EENT)

Aung Lwin : Academy award winner, Director, Script writer and Actor

Aung Lwin (C70) : Secretary of RIT Rowing Association

Aye Lwin (M69, GBNF) : Secretary of the RIT Mechanical Engineering Association; Secretary of RIT Annual Magazine; Attended 2015 Alumni Reunion in Los Angeles

Ba Lwin (Myoma) : Headmaster; Chief Boy Scout of Burma; Ambassador to Ceylon

Ba Lwin, Dr. (EE59) : He and U Myo Kyi (EE59) are the senior sayas (by seniority) at the EE Department

Chit Lwin : attended UCC

Khin Maung Lwin, Dr. : FAME

Khin Maung Lwin (Kyet Taw) : M87-91 Group

Kyi Lwin (George, C67)

Kyin Lwin (M69, GBNF)

Kyaw Lwin (George Saw Lwin, EC64, GBNF) : Saya, Pianist & Rower

Kyaw Lwin (C) : Minister; Former DG

Kyaw Lwin Hla : RIT English; Joined UNDP

Lwin Aung, Dr. (A59) : Former Professor & Head of Architecture Department; Retired as Pro-Rector of YTU; Monk for several years

Lwin Mar Oo : Winner Inn, W Bistro

Lwin Swe, Bo (EE61) : Great Grandfather

Lwin Oo : Dhamma friend

Maung Lwin : Former MI Chief and Ambassador to Germany.

Maung Lwin : Minister; Father of Toe Lwin & Soe Lwin

Maung Lwin : Minister; Founding member of NLD; Father of Su Su Lwin

Maung Lwin (Dawei) : Owned a schooner. Hla Moe (Han Shein), his second son, perished when the schooner sank.

“Maung Mae Thit Lwin Kyo So Pwe” : Welcome party for freshers

Mya Lwin

Myat Lwin

Min Lwin, Dr. (SPHS60) : Orthopedic Surgeon

Min Lwin (Maurice Hla Kyi, SPHS64) : Fifth in Burma in Matric. Admitted as Roll No. (2) to IM(2)

Myint Lwin (Charlie, UCC) : Burma Judo Champion; German Diploma from IFL

Myint Lwin Thein, Dr. : His department offered DAG (Diploma in Applied Geology) courses.

Myo Lwin : RUBC

Myo Lwin : RIT, GTI Saya

Myo Lwin : Dhamma friend & organizer

Myo Lwin : Entrepreneur

Pyin Oo Lwin : Maymyo

San Lwin, Dr. (Ronald Lwin, GBNF) : RUBC Gold; Cardiologist

Saw Lwin : Director General at the Department of Higher Education

Saw Lwin : He and Su Su have three daughters: Hazel, Olive and May

Sein Lwin (GBNF) : Professor of Zoology

Sein Lwin (Raymond Ba Phyu, GBNF) : Vocalist. Perished in an air plane crash

Soe Lwin, Dr. : Dhamma teacher

Soe Lwin (EC66) : Railways

Soe Lwin : Physics, Luyechun

Soe Myint Lwin (EC68, GBNF) : Burma Selected in Soccer

Than Lwin (Eric Lwin, GBNF) : Economics Lecturer; Librarian at the Faculty of Social Science

Thaung Lwin (EC66) : RUBC Past Captain & Gold

Thein Lwin (EE, GBNF) : Saya at RIT & Singapore Poly; President of RIT Badminton Association

Thein Lwin (M71) : Phyu

Thet Lwin, Dr. : Statistics Saya

Thet Lwin : Registrar, RIT; Director, DHE

Thet Lwin (Henry, EC72)

Thet Lwin (EE, UCC)

Tin Maung Lwin (RUBC) : Brother of U Tin Maung Latt

Tin Maung Lwin (Kenneth Lwin, RUBC)

Tin Maung Lwin (TBSA)

Tin May Lwin (UCC, DCS, ICST)

Tint Lwin (Daniel, M69) : Retired as Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering from NTU; Attended SPZPs and took part in the Entertainment Program as a vocalist. Plays guitar with Albert Kyaw Min & Robert Win Boh at the 69er gatherings.

Wai Lwin (RIT)

Wai Wai Lwin (Emma Lwin, TBSA)

Win Lwin (M69) : Secretary of the RIT Hiking & Mountaineering Association. Climbed Mount Victoria with students from other Universities & Institutes.

Zaw Lwin : Actor

by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

U Win Naing (C80)

• Organizer for the SPZPs held in Yangon
• He and Daw Than Than Swe (C81) sponsored a memento for SPZP-2012.
• Hosted practice sessions for the Swel Daw Yeik Troupe.

U Win Naing (GBNF)

• Science Scholar (Maths)
• M.Sc (Computer Science) from UCC
• Aprivations Programmer, UCC

Dr. Win Naing (Geol)

• Saya at Geology Department, RASU

U Win Naing (BASES)

• President, BASES
• Studied Mechanical & Civil Engineering

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Updated : June 2025

Dr. Khin Maung Zaw (Frank Gale, SPHS63)

• Stood 17th in the Matriculation exam in 1963.
• Retired after working in the UK.
• He visited Yangon to see his mother, elder sisters and Old Paulians.
• His eldest sister, who was taking care of the mother, passed away unexpectedly. The mother followed soon.

U Khin Maung Zaw (“KMZ”, SPHS70, EC76)

• Attended St. Paul’s High School
• Matriculated in 1970 from No. (6) Botahtaung SHS State High School (name of SPHS after nationalization in 1965)
• Due to disturbances, the convocation for KMZ’s class took place in March 1977. For simplicity & consistency), we call his class as “Class of 76”.
• Represented All Universities in Hockey and RIT in Rowing.

• Played as the last defender in the RIT Hockey Team. Many played for the University & All-Institutes Team. He coached Thura Thant Zin (goalkeeper). At RUBC, Thura coached KMZ.
• Helped Maung Maung Hnyut & brothers (major players for the Graduation Photos).
• Volunteered at UCC. He usually brought an empty lunch box and a spoon. Several friends and some “ah ma gyis” would provide him lunch.
• Took courses at UCC, but flatly refused to do some assignments (e.g. COBOL).
• Worked in Singapore and then migrated to US. He has been in the Seattle region since his arrival in the US.

• When my company subsidized my vacation trip (for the successful completion of a project), we visited KMZ at his old house. He showed us around (including a day trip to Vancouver, Canada). He showed me his wine cellar. Since I do not drink, I ended up with his concoction (“ginger beer (or similar) with ice cream”).
• Founding member of RIT Alumni International
• We were lucky when we were planning for SPZP-2000. He was working four 10-hour week with the Technology and Architecture Group of Nordstrom (where he had time & luxury to play with several computer systems).
• Accepted the call of Saya U Soe Paing (our mentor at UCC) and me to set up a web site for RIT sayas and alumni.
• Designed and implemented the first RIT web site. He was then an eligible bachelor and had a three day weekend. He burned the midnight oil preparing for the SPZP-2000.
• Promised SPZP-2000 attendees that he would work on Version 2.0 of the web site. Things changed. Had a wonderful job at Microsoft and also started a wonderful family. A busy schedule at work and at home meant that maintaining and extending the web site would no longer have the top priority. He longer had time for RIT Updates.
• Visited SF Bay Area in March 2018 to attend the retirement soon kyway of Maurce Chee (M75). There was a pre-soon kwyay gathering at a Sea Food Restaurant in San Mateo.
• Mailed me two books that he bought in Myanmar. One is “U Thant Ah Ye Ah Khin” by Htein Win (Photo). The other is a “tran-composition” of Saya Zaw Gyi’s poems about Pagan by Ah May Thar.
• After retirement, he is doing forensics on his old desktops and PCs to recover albums, and articles.
• Has provided tags and comments for my postings.

U Khin Maung Zaw (SPHS71, EE77)

• Per KMZ, the “other Khin Maung Zaw” is also from SPHS, 71 batch. He’s an active member & instigator of OPA (Old Paulians Association) as well as RIT Electrical 1971-77 group.
• EE77 group donated Kyat 77 Lakhs collected mainly from the group towards the flood victims through Daw Khin Kyi foundation. Amazingly he was able to cajole exactly Kyat 77L to commemorate 1977 batch folks. Sadhu! Sadhu Sadhu!
• Interesting enough he and KMZ overlap in several areas, SPHS, RIT including Hockey and Rowing at RIT,

U Khin Maung Zaw (T76)

Per Ko Myat Thein (Adam K Khan, EP76) :

There is another Khin Maung Zaw (whom I called Ngachate tayoke literally meaning Black Chinese because he has dark complexion) Class 76 Textile. We had very good conversations at D9 when we were final year students.

Saya U Khin Maung Zaw

• One is English Saya
• Another is Chemistry Saya

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by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

TAG

It may stand for

• Technology and Architecture Group
• Tun Aung Gyaw
• Tom Aung Gyaw (Tin Aung Win)

Tag

Tag may mean a label.

In FB, tagging a post makes a copy to the Timeline of the person being tagged.

There are pros and cons for using FB tags. e.g. Someone may receive multiple of a post that is being revised incrementally.

In FB, the individuals in a photo may be tagged. There are pros and cons for using FB photo tags.

Some algorithms used by FB to process photo tags have features. e.g. I have a photo with U Osadha of Dhammananda Vihara. FB asked me to tag Ashin Pannagavesaka (Uzin Bobby Myo Tun, A69) even though he was not present in the picture. The algorithms do not handle the case correctly for Theravada Buddhist monks.

In the early days, there is game called “Tag”.

There used to be Rag Tag Bands.

TAG – Technology and Architectures Group

by KMZ

The last group I worked in my first company. Took me 10 years in that company to get into that group, starting from the very bottom when I arrived in US. The very first year in US, every interviewer told me I would get bored in several months in the job I interviewed for. Some of them even referred me to outside Agencies.

This first company was and still is, a retail company, where technology and IT were treated as second class citizen. Even worth the new retechnoligies we tried to push out, the higher ups were not enthusiastic about it. They see IT being the money spending “Cost Center” not a “Revenue Generating” aka merchandise selling department.

After they pushed out long time VP of IT was transferred to newly created online entity website, TAG was abolished. I was in the middle of another technologies, Data Warehouse/Data Mart and Internet, got transferred into Database group.

IBM, having deep connections to our IT, we were running Big Blue, like any other big IT shops. IBM got a foot hold to sell their web/internet technologies. I was in the minority of IBM’s internet products (1997/1998), and was pushed aside. It didn’t work out well so Microsoft’s Professional Services was brought in. My former VP asked me to come to his new department, but I got pushed aside again because Microsoft folks complained that I asked them too many questions.

That was the end of my career with the retail company.

Au Revoir!!! Adios!!!

by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

• Thaung — Aung Bala, Chief Editor of Kyemon; Critic; Number One spared him for a while to prove that journalism was not dead; Speaker at the SF Bay Area talks; Published several books and critiques
• Thaung — Younger brother of U Thant; Was with U Than in the final days; Brought back U Thant’s body to Rangoon
• Thaung — DSA 1st batch; Ambassador to the US; Minister of Science and Technology; Branded our alma mater as “Thabon Kyaung“
• Thaung — Boxing
• Thaung Aye
• Thaung Dan — BAF
• Thaung Han — Artist
• Thaung Han — RUBC
• Thaung Hlaing
• Thaung Htut
• Thaung Khin, Daw
• Thaung Lwin (EC66)
• Thaung Lwin (Michael, SPHS63) — DSA; Dy Minister
• Thaung Myint — ဆင်လမ်း
• Thaung Myint, Dr. — RIT Maths
• Thaung Nyunt
• Thaung Po
• Thaung Sein — SPHS
• Thaung Sein — Navy
• Thaung Sein — Steeve Kay

• Thaung Shwe
• Thaung Tin — KMD
• Thaung Tin — Soccer
• Thaung Tin — Commodore
• Thaung Tun
• Thaung Win

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by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

• Arthur Lwin, Dr. (U Myo Min, EENT)
• Aung Lwin : academy award winner, Director, script writer and actor.
• Aung Lwin (Jasper, C70) : Secretary of RIT Rowing Association.

• Aye Lwin (M69, GBNF) : Secretary of the RIT Mechanical Engineering Association; Secretary of the RIT Annual Magazine; He attended the 2015 Alumni Reunion in Los Angeles.
• Ba Lwin (Myoma) : Chief Boy Scout of Burma; Ambassador to Ceylon (Sri Lanka); Father of USIS U Kyaw Nyein, U Kyaw Thein Lwin (Navy, Five Star Line), Dr. Yan Naing Lwin (WIU) and U Than Lwin (US State Department).

• Ba Lwin, Dr. (EE59) : He and U Myo Kyi (EE59) are the senior sayas (by seniority) at the EE Department. He visited his daughter and his relatives in the USA.
• Chit Lwin attended UCC.
• Eric Lwin : Younger son of Dr. Kyi Lwin
• Khin Maung Lwin, Dr, (FAME)
• Khin Maung Lwin (Kyet Taw, M87-91 Group)
• Kyi Lwin (George, C67)
• Kyin Lwin (M69, GBNF) was a regular at the 69er Gatherings.

• Kyaw Lwin (George Saw Lwin, EC64, GBNF) ; pianist and rower. His elder brother Jimmy Saw Lwin is RUBC Gold and a Diplomat.
• Kyaw Lwin (C) : was Minister of Construction. He earlier was a Director General. I was a guest at a dinner reception to honor Dr. Aung Gyi at U Nyan Tun U’s residence. Active and retired Ministers paid respect to Sayagyi and Dr San Hla Aung.
• Kyaw Lwin Hla : taught English at RIT; joined UNDP
• Kyi Lwin, Dr.
• Lwin Aung, Dr. (A59) served as Professor and Head of Architecture Department and retired as Pro-Rector of YTU. He practices Dhamma and also consults for the construction of religious buildings.

• Lwin Mar Oo (Winner Inn, W Bistro)
• Lwin Swe, Bo (EE61) is s senior alumni, and a proud Great Grandfahter.

• Maung Lwin, Colonel : Former MI Chief and Ambassador to Germany; Father of Toe Lwin (Eco Rowing) and Soe Lwin (RASU Luyechun & amateur astronomer); Founding member of NLD, and Father of Daw Su Su Lwin
• Lwin Oo : Dhamma friend.
• Mar Lwin
• Maung Lwin (Dawei, formerly Tavoy) owned a schooner. Hla Moe (Han Shein), his second son, perished when the schooner sank. Grapevine says that Hla Moe was warned by U Ba Than (Athletic Director and amateur palmist) that he could face a fatal accident. Hla Moe replied that he had survived a car accident (which left scars on his face) and that he would be visiting home via his father’s schooner and then return to Rangoon to become a Donlaba (temporary monk).
• Maung Mae Thit Lwin Kyo So Pwe : welcome party for freshers.
• May Lwin
• Min Lwin, Dr. (SPHS60) : Orthopedic Surgeon. He treated me when I broke a small bone in my left wrist. He made sure that I could attend the wedding reception of my niece.

• Min Lwin, Dr. (Maurice Hla Kyi, SPHS64) stood Fifth in Burma in the Matric exam. He is a cousin of “Lake” Win Maung (George Tun) and Khin Swe Aye (Winnie Tun, ChE70). He treated me long ago when I stepped on a pebble and hurt my left foot.
• Mya Lwin
• Myat Lwin

• Myint Lwin (Charlie, UCC) : Burma Judo Champion; Diploma in German from IF. His spouse is a niece of Saya U San Tun (M59).
• Myint Lwin : UCC alumni; moved to Australia
• Myint Lwin Thein, Dr. : his team offered DAG (Diploma in Applied Geology) courses.
• Myo Lwin (RUBC)
• Myo Lwin (RIT, GTI Saya)
• Myo Lwin (Dhamma friend & organizer)
• Nyunt Lwin
• Ohn Lwin
• Pyin Oo Lwin : name for Maymyo
• Ronald Lwin : Elder son of Dr. Kyi Lwin
• San Lwin, Dr. (Ronald Lwin, GBNF) : RUBC Gold; Cardiologist; Father of Sayama Daw Tin May Lwin (UCC).
• San Lwin : Director
• San Lwin : Philosophy; Director; Monk
• San Lwin Tun
• Saw Lwin : Director General at the Department of Higher Education (DHE).
• Saw Lwin : He & Daw Su Su have three daughters — Hazel Saw Lwin, Olive Saw Lwin and May Saw Lwin.
• Saw Lwin : Children — Jimmy Saw Lwin, George Saw Lwin
• Sein Lwin (GBNF) studied in the USA during the time when racial discrimination was prevalent. He served as Professor of Zoology. He is a brother of Daw Khin Than Kywe (Commerce).
• Sein Lwin (Raymond Ba Hpyu, GBNF) : distinguished vocalist; perished in an air plane crash; elder brother of Playboy Than Naing
• Soe Lwin (Mech Saya, GBNF)
• Soe Lwin, Dr. (Dhamma techer)
• Soe Lwin (EC66, Railways)
• Soe Lwin (Physics, Luyechun)

• Soe Myint Lwin (EC68, GBNF) : Burma Selected in Soccer
• Than Lwin (Eric Lwin, GBNF) : studied at LSE; room mate of Dr. Chit Swe; taught Economics at BIT; Lecturer at the Faculty of Social Science; Librarian of the Social Science Library.
• Than Lwin : Burma Tennis Champion
• Than Lwin (EC69) : RIT Saya
• Than Lwin : UCC, CSO, Singapore
• Thaung Lwin (EC66) : RUBC Past Captain and Gold; younger brother of U Tin U, U Ba Than, Dr. Myo Tint, U Tin Htoon (A60) and U Myo Min (UCC).
• Thaung Lwin (Michael Maung Maung) : Former Deputy Minister
• Thaung Lwin : former monk
• Thein Lwin (GBNF) : Eldest son of U Maung Gyi & Daw Aw
• Thein Lwin (Stanley Shwe Gyi) : SPHS63
• Thein Lwin : Brother of Daw Mar Lwin
• Thein Lwin (EE, GBNF) : alumnus of Lehigh University, USA; taught at RIT and Singapore Polytechnic; President of RIT Badminton Association.
• Thet Lwin, Dr. (Statistics)
• Thein Lwin (M71, Phyu)
• Thet Lwin (Registrar, RIT; Director, DHE)
• Thet Lwin (Henry, EC72)
• Thet Lwin (UCC)
• Tin Maung Lwin (RUBC) : brother of Tin Maung Latt
• Tin Maung Lwin (Kenneth, RUBC)
• Tin Maung Lwin (TBSA)
• Tin May Lwin (UCC, DCS, ICST)
• Tint Lwin (Daniel, M69) : retired Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering from NTU; attended SPZPs and took part in the Entertainment Program as a vocalist; plays the guitar along with Albert Kyaw Min and Robert Win Boh at the 69er gatherings; U Win Mra (RIT English) taught him and his brothers how to play the guitar.
• Wai Lwin (RIT)
• Wai Wai Lwin (Emma, TBSA)
• Win Lwin (M69) : Secretary of RIT Hiking & Mountaineering Association. He and Ko Cho Aye (M70, GBNF) climbed Mount Victoria with the students from other Universities’ and Institutes
• Zaw Lwin : actor
• Zaw Lwin (Andrew, M87) : TDS