Category: RIT Alumni

by Hla Min & U Aye

Updated : May 2026

Architecture

• The Group photo shows the Staff and the 2nd, 3rd and Final Year students.

A60

• Most of the 2nd Year students graduated in 1960.

U Tin Htoon (A60)

• Past Captain & Gold, RUBC.
• Won the Union of Burma President’s Challenge Cup for Inter-club Coxed Eights in 1956.
• Won the Venables Bowl for Coxless Pairs at the 1958 ARAE Regatta in Calcutta with Dr. Harry Saing (GBNF).
• Won the Willingdon Trophy for Coxed Fours at the 1960 ARAE Regatta in Colombo, with Dr. Harry Saing (GBNF), Sunny Teng, Victor Htun Shein (GBNF) and Sein Htoon (M63)
• Won Silver medal for Yachting at SEAP Games in Bangkok with Hla Khin.
• Founded Architects Incorporated with U Bo Gyi (A59, GBNF) & U Aung Kyee Myint (A60). They later joined PWD.
• Designed Thiri Pyit Saya hotel in Bagan
• Designed Burmese Buddhist Temple in Singapore
• Board Member of Pariyatti Association
• Fundraiser & organizer for selected Goenka projects
• In 1963, he compiled the Souvenir Magazine for the RUBC 40th Anniversary with Sithu U Tin (President) and U Po Zon (Vice President).
• In 2013, he chaired the subcommittee to publish the Souvenir Magazine for the RUBC 90th Anniversary. U Myo Myint (EC67, RUBC Gold) was Vice Chair. U Htaik San (Henry Kao, M81, RUBC Gold) was Secretary. U Hla Min (EC69) was Contributing Editor, who wrote Prelude for every section and three feature articles.
• Retired after working in Myanmar, Singapore and California (USA)
• Co-founder, Triple Gems Publication
• Compiled Photo Albums with Htaik San (Henry) for his parents, two elder brothers (U Tin U & U Ba Than) and a nephew (Dr. Peter Tun, who passed away with COVID-19 in UK).

U Aung Kyee Myint (A60)

• Founded Architects Incorporated with U Bo Gyi (A59, GBNF) & U Tin Htoon (A60)
• Retired Chief Architect of PWD.

U Kin Maung Yin (A60, GBNF)

• Part-time saya
• Proponent of Modern Art
• Movie Director

Koon Yin Chu (Phillip Chu, A60)

• First in Burma in Matric exam of 1954 from SPHS
• First in the Class of A60
• Attended SPZP-2000
• Restaurant owner; Good dancer

Chemical

• Seven ChE60 graduates

U Aung Zaw Win (Ch60)

• Col. DI/HIC ( Retired)

U Tha Tun Aung (Ch60)

• Maj. DI (Retired)
• Director HIC (Retired)

Saya Dr. Maung Maung Win (ChE60, GBNF)

• Retired as Professor of Chemical Engineering
• Masters from Kansas University and Doctorate from Purdue University

Civil

U Tun Aye (C60)

• Amara Hall, volleyball player Captain
• He was from Nyaungdon

U Tun Aung (C60)

• Secretary of Prome Hall S&R (1958-59)
• Prome Hall football team member

U Taik Lwin (C60)

• Major, GE (Retired), GBNF
• Director, HIC

U Lay Lwin (C60)

• Major, GE (Retired)
• Director, TSC
• Ministry of Industry 2

U Khin Zaw (C60)

• Major, GE (Retired)

U Soe Lin (C60)

• Construction Corp. (Retired)

U Kan Aye (C60)

• Director (Public Works) (Retired)
• CC
• He was from Moulmein

U Soe Kyaw (C60)

• MOC (Retired)
• He was from Thaton

U Than Ngwe (C60, GBNF)

• CC (Retired)
• He was from Mandalay and brother of the late U Than Shwe

U Ba Swe (C60)

• Dy. Director ( Water/ Sanitation), Public Works
• Per U Aye : Volleyball team mate Prome Hall selection in 1958-59

U Hla Thein (C60)

• CC (Retired)
• Prome Hall selected footballer.

U Kyaw Htin (C60)

• Construction corporation
• He was from St.Patrick’s HS, Mawlamyine

U Tin Ohn (C60)

• Port Commissioners, Yangon.(Retired)
• Went for further study in Australia.
• He was from SHS No.1, Mawlamyine.

U Hla Tin (C60)

• Irrigation (Retired)
• A writer/poet (Kaytu Win Tint), my mentor, senior colleague from Prome Hall, he was in room no. 102, while I (U Aye N62) was in room 108.
• He was from Toungoo.

U Hla Thein (C60)

• From State HS No,1, Mawlamyine
• Ramanya Hall basketball star
• Yangon City Development (GNBF)

Electrical

U Mg Mg Myo Nyunt (EE60)

• Major (DI) (Retired)
• (also known as Ko Than Nyunt at Prome Hall)
• President of SPARKS (1958-59)

U Htay Swe (EE60)

• He was from St Patrick’s HS. Moulmein. He matriculated the same year with U Aung Tun (DI) .

U Than Htut (EE60)

• ECC (Retired)
• Passed away while on state scholarship to the US.

U Nyan Tun (EE60)

• EPC
• He was from SHS No.1, Mawlamyine

U Tun Yee (EE60)

• Dy. Director (Electrical), Public Works
• Per U Aye : He was from Prome Hall, known for body building, our instructor for body building in his room, 1958-59.

U Soe Thein (EE60)

• Attended SPZP-2000 with his brothers Saya Dr. Aung Soe (C61) and Saya Dr. K C Chiu (ChE63)

Mechanical

U Aung Tun (M60)

• Major(Retired), Defense Industries (DI)
• St. Patrick’s HS, Mawlamyine
• Prome Hall selection in football and basketball

U Hla Shwe (M60)

• Lt Col (Retired), Defense Industries

U Khin Maung Win (M60)

• EE, BPI (Retired)
• He was from Morton Lane Judson HS, Moulmein

Nelson Khaing (M60)

• Major (DI) (Retired)
• Dy. Supdt No.4 HI

U Tun Aung Zaw (M60)

• Ministry of Mines
• Per U Aye : He was my senior neighbour at Prome Hall in 1958-59), room number 107, while I was in room number 108.

Saya U Tin Htut (M60)

• Past Captain & Gold, RUBC
• Taught Industrial Management (formerly taught by sayas from Social Science & Institute of Economics)
• Co-founder & Past President, BASES
• Financial Controller, 2015 RIT Alumni Reunion in Los Angeles
• Donated to various RIT-related projects (e.g Library Modernization

Saya U Tin Maung Nyunt (M60)

• MS from Virginia Tech
• Taught Agricultural Engineering at RIT
• President of RIT Thaing
• Worked in Thailand & USA.
• Donated to Norcal RITAA & YTU Library Modernization Project.

U Than Tin (M60, GBNF)

• RUBC Gold
• Won the Union of Burma President’s Challenge Cup for Inter-Club Coxed Eights in 1956

U Than Sein (M60)

• Due to schedule conflict, he could not join the M60 Reunion lunch with U Tin Htut & U Than Tin.

Saya U Tun Shwe (M60)

• Patron of RITAA, SDYF and SPZP.
• Attended 2015 RIT Alumni Reunion in Los Angeles. His host was his cousin U Win Htay (Walter Cheng Lyan, M70).

U Bo Lay (M 60)

• EE Mechanical (Retired)
• Irrigation Dept.

U Hla Shein (M60)

• Asst Lecturer, 1960-61
• Moved to CC
• Manager, Insein Workshop
• Part time lecturer on mechanized construction.

Metallurgy

U Than Shwe (Met60, GBNF)

• Lt Col, Defense Industries
• MD -Heavy Industries Corp.(HIC)
• Minister for Industries

U Kyaw Win (Met60)

• Lt Col (Retired), Defense Industries

Public Health

U Maung Maung (Public Health 60)

• Major-GE(Retired)
• UNICEF (Sierra Leone)
• UNICEF(New York)
• He was from Morton Lane Judson HS, Mawlamyine
• During his assignment in FAO project in Sierra Leone, U Aye met U Maung Maung in Freetown

by Hla Min

Updated : June 2026

လျှပ်စစ် Electrical

Daw Mya Mya Than ဒေါ်မြမြသန်း (ကွယ်လွန်) — ဆရာမ ငြိမ်း

U Soe Myint Lwin ဦးစိုးမြင့်လွင် (ကွယ်လွန်) — ဘော်လုံး

U Tun Aung ဦးထွန်းအောင် (Jeffrey, ကွယ်လွန်) — BASES

U Saw Win ဦးစောဝင်း (ကွယ်လွန်)

U Thein Zaw ဦးသိန်းဇော် (Joe, ကွယ်လွန်)

Dickey Paul (ကွယ်လွန်)

He passed away in Australia.

U Myo Myint ဦးမျိုးမြင့် — လျှပ်စစ်စာဆောင်

U Aung Khin ဦးအောင်ခင် — Gawpaka, BASES

U Min Maung ဦးမင်းမောင် Gawpaka

• Seattle Monastery

မြို့ပြ Civil

U Myat Htoo ဦးမြတ်ထူး — ဆရာ ငြိမ်း၊

Founding member, RIT Alumni International
Organizer, SPZP-2000
Founding member, NorCal RITAA

Passed away peacefully in June 2026

U Myint Soe ဦးမြင့်စိုး (ကွယ်လွန်) — ဆရာ ငြိမ်း

He is SPHS 62.

C68 — Class Photo

C68 — Status

15 ယောက် ခန့် — ကွယ်လွန် GBNF (Gone But Not Forgotten)

စက်မှု Mechanical

U Yu Swan ဦးယုစွမ် —ဒုံမင်း Don Min

U Khin Maung Nyo ဦးခင်မောင်ညို — ကြက်တောင်

Member of the RIT Badminton Team which won the Inter-Institute Trophy

U Ngwe Tun ဦးငွေထွန်း — Dio

Provided comments for several posts

ချည်ထည် Textile

U Khin Maung Lay ဦးခင်မောင်လေး (Henry)

ပြေးခုန်ပစ်၊ Secretary, RIT Track and Field
ဘော်လုံး၊ RIT Soccer
လှေလှော်၊ RIT Rowing
President, BASES
Organizer, 2015 RIT Alumni Reunion in Los Angeles

ဓာတု Chemical

ဦးအုန်းမောင် (Anthony) — ဆရာ ငြိမ်း

ပိသုကာ Architecture

Sai Yee Laik စိုင်းရီလိတ် (ကွယ်လွန်) — ဆရာ ငြိမ်း

Worked for the company that won the Burmese Buddhist Temple project in Singapore.

by Hla Min

Updated : June 2026

Highlights

• President of Swel Daw Yeik Foundation; Hosted lunch meetings
• Major donor for SDYF
• Donated to Alumni Association for YTU Library Modernization
• Donated for the Entertainment Program of SPZPs & SDYF events
• Provided Eye Care for eligible RIT sayas & sayamas
• Sang SDYF theme song with Saya U Moe Aung (Tekkatho Moe War, Patron of SDYF). The song is not a transformation of Saya’s poem. It was a new composition. Ko Than Po (M75) helped with the music injection.
• Attended the 2015 RIT Alumni Reunion in Los Angeles.
• Attended the Alumni Gathering in SF Bay Area.

Updates

• Balance of the “Vision Care fund for RIT sayas & sayamas” was transferred to SDYF / Swel Daw Yeik Foundation

by Hla Min

Updated : June 2026

• Most members matriculated in 1956 and graduated with B.Sc.(Engg) in 1962.

Textile

Daw Khin Than Nwe (T62)

• Lone female graduate in 1962

• Spouse : Saya Dr. Khin Maung Win (Metallurgy, GBNF) who transferred as Director General of Technical & Vocational Training.
• Children : One son & two daughters

• Elder sister of two Paulians : Dr. Tin Maung Maung Than (Edward, Political Economics) and Dr. Khin Maung Maung Than (Freddie).

• On behalf of Bagyee Myat Myo Myint, U Nyunt Htay (Met73) presented a Pon Tu of Saya Dr. Khin Maung Win (Met, GBNF) to Sayagadaw.

Mechanical

Saya Mao Toon Siong (M62)

• National Coach of Burma Table Tennis Team
• National Table Tennis Champion in Singles and Doubles
• Competed in the World Championship in Beijing.
• Spouse : Daw Tin Tin Maw (Chemistry Sayama)
• Moved to USA.

U Aye (M62)

• U Aye (HIC, UN/FAO), U Soe and U Tin Win received their degree certificates from Saya U Yone Mo at Aung San Stadium.
• U Aye played volleyball for BIT and RU. He retired in Thailand.
  He provided feedback & information (e.g Grads from 1952 – 1963).

Saya S Arya (M62, GBNF)

• He had a lovely accent.
• He is remembered by students of his Strength of Materials Tutorial Class in general & Ba Thein (Atlanta) in particular.

Saya Dr. Tin Win (M62)

• He was the youngest in his Class, but among the Top.
• Joint Winner for scoring the highest marks in Maths for Combined I.Sc classes.
• Past President of BASES
• Organizer of the 2015 RIT Alumni Reunion in Los Angeles
• Competed in the LA Marathon to raise fund to sponsor Sayas for SPZP-2007
• Spouse : Lily (T72) was Founding member & Secretary of BEA

U Myint Thein Lwin (M62)

• Retired from DI / HIC
• Brother : U Kyaw Thein (DCA, RUBC Captain)

U Hla Kyi (M62)

• Moved to UK
• His daughter married Dr. Moe Aye, son of Saya U Hlwan Moe (Phy) & Sayama Daw Khin Swe Aye (Phy).

Electrical

Saya U Tin Maung Thein (EE62)

• Father : ICS U Ohn Maung (Arzani)

Chemical

U Than Se (Richard, ChE62)

• moved to USA

U Aung Gyi (Simon, ChE62)

• helped publish ChE magazine

• spends time in Australia

Civil

Dr. San Lin (C62)

• Taught part-time at RIT.
• Worked at EPC and UN Project in Thailand before moving to USA.
• Spouse : Dr. Daw Thynn Thynn founded Sae Taw Win 2 Dhamma Center in Sebastopol, California.