Category: 69er

• Before the pandemic, 69ers used to have Monthly Breakfast Gatherings usually at Taw Win Hnin Si (Royal Rose)
• Some 69ers offered to host the Gathering to celebrate their Anniversaries and Birthdays.
• U Aung Min (M69, Chair of 69er HCF) is a core organizer of the 69er activities including the Annual Dinner Gatherings and the special Golden Jubilee Celebrations

Three Intakes

In November 1964, there were three intakes under the New Education System :

• 1st BE (Class of 70) : corresponds to I.Sc.(A) in the Old System
  The controversial ILA (Intelligence Level Aggregate) was used for admission
  400+ students (probably 450) joined.
  Zaw Min (Nawaday) was admitted as Roll Number One.

• 2nd BE (Class of 69) : corresponds to I.Sc.(B) in the Old System
  Total Marks were used for admission
  300+ students (probably 325) joined.
  Hla Min was admitted as Roll Number One.

• 3rd BE (Class of 68) : corresponds to First Year Engineering in the Old System
  About 200 joined 3rd BE.

Update

• Some students left before graduation.
• Some took Sabbatical and took slightly longer to graduate.
• Most are now retired or semi-retired.
  
• Sad to not that several have passed away.
  
• Recent GBNF from the Class of 68 include U Saw Win, U Zaw Win (Cyril) and Sayama Daw Mya Mya Than.
  
• U Aung Min (M69) and team provide updates for the Class of 69.
  As of September 2021, the GBNF list has 113 members.
  

• U Ohn Khine (M70) and team provide updates for the Class of 70.
  As of September 2021, the GBNF list has 111 members.

69ers paid Garawa to Saya U Ba Than, who will turn 93 on October 2, 2023

Organizer

U Aung Min often disappears when Group Photos are taken.

Attendees

• Daw Khin Than Myint Tin (Margaret, M69) was a Track & Field athlete.
  She and U Chan Nyein (Kyi Win) are among the nine co-hosts of the 69er Breakfast Gathering at Taw Win Hnin Si
• Mehm Aye Chan
• Khin Maung Tin
• Tin Maung Aye
• Kyaw Sein
• Than Win
• Tin Aung Win
• Tin Htut
• Sein Tun
• Tin Shein
• Aung Min

Tin Aung Win’s Graduation with his father

Aung Min (Organizer) and Fred Thetgyi

Gathering on September 2023

Dear RIT 69++ friends

အစီအစဉ် ကြိုတင်အသိပေးပါတယ်

၂၄ စက်တင်ဘာ (တနင်္ဂနွေ)မှာ breakfast gathering ရှိပါမယ်။ တော်ဝင်နှင်းဆီ(ရွှေဂုံတိုင်) သို့ ၇:၀၀ – ၈:၀၀ နာရီ ကြွခဲ့ကြပါ။

ကိုချမ်းငြိမ်း + မာဂရက် လည်း ဘားအံ မြိုင်ကလေး မှ ရောက်လာပါမယ်။

အာဟာရ အလှူရှင်များကတော့ ကိုငွေထွန်း၊ ကိုတင်ရှိန်၊ ကိုသန်းဝင်း၊ ကိုချမ်းငြိမ်းနှင့်မာဂရက် တို့ဖြစ်ကြပါတယ်။

အဝေးမှရောက်လာမည့် သူငယ်ချင်း စုံတွဲအားတွေ့ဆုံရင်း အလှူရှင်များကို ဆုမွန်ကောင်းများ ပို့သကြရအောင်ပါနော။

မပျက်မကွက် ဆက်ဆက်လာကြပါ။

စားသောက်ပြီးရင် ဆရာကြီး ဦးဘသန်း (၉၃ နှစ်)အား သွားရောက် ဂါရဝ ပြုကြပါမယ်။

• He graduated with Textile Engineering in 1969.

• He joined the Faculty at RIT (Rangoon Institute of Technology).
• He retired as Associate Professor.
• When a bootlicker asked him to end his class to pay respect to a visiting Taing Hmu, he continued teaching. A post about the event caused some alumni (who did not know him) to donate to his medical expenses fund.
• He and Saya U Tin Shwe (EP66) passed away about the same time.
  They are GBNF (Gone But Not Forgotten).
• They are remembered by Saya U Moe Aung (Tekkatho Moe War) in his Kabyar (poem) “To the Shwe Duo”.

• I translated the poem.

“ရွှေ နှစ် ရွှေ သို့ “

ရွှေနှစ်ရွှေ…..

ဝေတော့လည်း တူ

ကြွေတော့လည်း အတူတူ

ငြူစူခြင်း ကင်း

မျှဉ်းမျှဉ်း အသက်ရှူ

စိုက်ထူမှတ်တိုင်

မယိမ်းယိုင်ခဲ့…..

မနိုင်ဝန် ပိ

အလှည့်သင့်လာ

သောအခါ မှာ

ခန္ဓာအမွေ

ကြွေသာ ကြွေလည်း

မသေ ဝိညာဉ် ဝဲပျံနေသေးတကား ….။ ။

( ကိုတင်ရွှေ- လျှပ်စစ်စွမ်းအား နှင့် ကိုလှရွှေ- ချည်မျှင် သို့)

တက္ကသိုလ် မိုးဝါ

(၂၆ ဇန္နဝါရီ ၂ဝ၁၅ – ည ၉:၅၅ နာရီ)

To the SHWE Duo

Poem by Tekkatho Moe War
Translated by Hla Min

SHWE duo
Blossom in unison
Disappear together
Free from complaint
Even with thin breath
Showed mark [of courage and wisdom]
Never ever wavered …
Pressed by burden
At the awaited turn [of journey’s end]
Body — inheritance [from previous lives]
Succumbs [to failing health]
Yet, “Wei-nyin” is fresh, alive and hovering.

** Notes

* K K Wong / Sein Myint wrote :

He is a Straight forward guy, also jolly guy.

A lot of our Batch guys are Straight Forward Guys. I saw Some Guys still wanting to Lift Balls.

When you are A Straight Forward Guy, better prepare your loopholes or at least One Good Loop Hole.

Then you can say, don’t worry be happy!!!

* Sai Kyaw Myint wrote :

He was much similar like me in the manner

of against proud group. No one is above the law.

* Saya U Moe Aung gave me some of his works.

One was a collection of his poems.

Another was a collection of his articles.

I translated selected poems and articles.

* Saya and four other RIT poets — Okpo Maung Yin Maung, Maung Nyunt Htay (Ah Htet Min Hla), Ko Toee (Myit Che) and Win Myint (M72, Kabyaung) published poems related to Swel Daw Yeik.

Bagyee Myat Myo Myint illustrated the poems.

I received copies of the book from two authors.

Hosted by U Tin Shwe (EE69er) for Dec 2022

Dear RIT69ers

ဖိတ်ကြားအပ်ပါသည်

ဒီဇင်ဘာ ၁၁ ၊ ၂၀၂၂၊တနင်္ဂနွေနေ့ တွင်

​RIT ကျောင်းနေဖက် သူငယ်ချင်း ကိုတင်ရွှေ(သံမီးဂျီ) လျှပ်စစ် မှ RIT69ers သူငယ်ချင်း(ဘာသာရပ်ပေါင်းစုံ)တို့အားနံနက်စာဖြင့်အာဟာရ ဒါနပြုလုပ်ကြွေးမွေးလိုပါသောကြောင့်အောက်ပါအစီအစဉ်အတိုင်း မပျက်မကွက်ကြွရောက်သုံးဆောင်ကြပါရန်စေတနာရှေ့ထား၍ ဖိတ်ကြားပါသည်။

၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ်အတွက်နောက်ဆုံးmini gathering ဖြစ်ပါသောကြောင့် အားလုံးစုံစုံညီညီတက်ရောက်၍ ကိုတင်ရွှေအတွက်ဆုမွန်ကောင်းများပို့သပေးကြရန်လည်း ထပ်ဆင့်အသိပေးနှိုးဆော် အပ်ပါသည်။

နေ့ရက် ၁၁ ဒီဇင်ဘာ ၂၀၂၂ (တနင်္ဂနွေ)

နေရာ တော်ဝင်နှင်းဆီ ရွှေဂုံတိုင်

အချိန် နံနက် ၇ နာရီ မှ ၈/၃၀ နာရီ

Hosted by Daw Thaung Htwe (C69) for Dec 2018

The December 2018 Breakfast gathering of the Class of 69 was hosted by Daw Thaung Htwe (C69).

• Per Wai Lu, there were 16 students in Mining 69.
  Ko Kyaw Tint, Ko Chit Htun, Ko Aung Naing … are GBNF.
  Six are alive and well.
  
• Met Ko Khin Maung Gyi, Ko Tin Win and Ko Win Thein Zaw at the 69er Gatherings.
  

• Ko Tin Maung (Katha) was earlier listed in the 69er Address Book / Contact List as having moved to USA or Taiwan.
• He was known for his shooting prowess in soccer, despite having a knee problem.
• Ko Tin Maung Aye (M69) met him at the Tanyin Thabawa Yeiktha.

• Per Wai Lu, there were 16 students in Mining 69.
  Ko Kyaw Tint, Ko Chit Htun, Ko Aung Naing … are GBNF.
  Six are alive and well.
  
• Met Ko Khin Maung Gyi, Ko Tin Win and Ko Win Thein Zaw at the 69er Gatherings.
  

• Ko Tin Maung (Katha) was earlier listed in the 69er Address Book / Contact List as having moved to USA or Taiwan.
• He was known for his shooting prowess in soccer, despite having a knee problem.
• Ko Tin Maung Aye (M69) met him at the Tanyin Thabawa Yeiktha.

* Ashin Ukkamsa (U Aung Chaw, Victor) : became a monk at Sagaing Hills after retirement. Currently residing at Thonegwa.

U Win Maung (Lake, Rowing, Swimming, Water Polo) : Brother of Sayama Daw Khin Swe Aye (Winnie, ChE70)

U Myint Maung (Bu, Volleyball) : Eligible Bachelor

U Myat Soe Lwin (Sai Hwet) : BIL of Yee Pinn (Maung Maung Kaung, GBNF)

* U Han Sein (Ah Pho Gyi, Swimming, Water Polo, Diving, Basketball, GBNF)

He was sentenced to 20 years by a Kangaroo Court, but was released after 17 years.

* U Aung Gyi Shwe (Track & Field, Soccer, Weightlifting, GBNF)

He is a Khamee Khamet of U Kyaw Myint (T72).

* U Khin Maung Win (Sargalay, Badminton, GBNF) : Training Partner for Sai Kham Pan (Burma Selected). Played for his Township.

U Moe Hein (Ajala, Swimming, Water Polo)