Category: RIT Alumni

by Hla Min

Updated : May 2026

Songs

• Two Rowing songs
• Shorter one appears on the Regatta Program

1948 Independence Day Regatta

• RUBC Fours
• Dick San Pe (Pe Nyun)
• Bobby Tin (Khin Maung Wint)
• Cox — name not known
• Tom San Pe (Pe Thein)
• Tin U

1958 Inter-Varsity Race

• RUBC beat CURC (Calcutta University Rowing Club)

FEARA Regatta in Hong Kong

RUBC competed in Coxed Fours, Coxed Pairs, and Sculls.

• Tun Shein (Willie)
• Win Kyi
• Tin Htoon
• Harry Saing
• San Maung (Gerald)
• Hla Min (Eddie)

RUBC Regatta in 1996

• U Maung Maung Than Tun (GBNF)
• U Tun Shein (Willie)
• U Hla Myint (Michael, GBNF)
• U Sein Htoon
• U Thant Kyaw
• U Hla Min
• U Myo Myint
• Young & Old members

RUBC 90th Anniversary Souvenir Magazine

I served as Contributing Editor. I wrote three articles and Prelude for each Section.

Club House

RUBC 40th Anniversary

Two Teams at FEARA

• The opponents of RUBC were taller.

Engineering Eights

• won the Inter-Faculty Eights
• Myo Myint
• L. Than Myint
• Lazarus
• Than Htut
• Thaung Lwin
• Htain Lin
• Ohn Hlaing (Elmo, GBNF)
• Kyaw Lwin (George, GBNF)
• Tin Aung (Victor, GBNF)

U Chan Tha

• Captain, RUBC

Selected Photos

• Coxed Fours
• Throw the winning cox into the water
• Kayak

Posts

• Rangoon University Boat Club
• RUBC 90th Anniversary
• RUBC Centennial
• Sir Arthur Eggar

by Hla Min

Updated : May 2026

မှတ်တမ်း (တချို့)

M73 Hovercraft Project

• Project Supervisor : ဆရာ ဦးတူးမြင့်
• ဦးလှဝင်း၊ ဦးခင်မောင်ချို နဲ့ အဖွဲ့

Dr. Myint Thein / Dr မြင့်သိန်း (M73)

• Georgia Tech က ပါရဂူ
• Pen name : ဘသိန်း (Atlanta)
• ဇနီး — ဒေါ်ညိုညိုဝင်း (T73)

Dr. L Sein Myint / Dr L စိန်မြင့် (M73)

• Organizer, East Coast RIT Alumni Reunion

U Nyunt Htay ဦးညွန့်ဌေး (Met73)

• High School လူရည်ချွန်
• RIT ဆရာ ငြိမ်း
• မောင်ညွန့်ဌေး — အထက်မင်းလှ
• ကဗျာ ဆရာ၊ စာတည်း

U Aung Moung ဦးအောင်မောင်း (M73, ကွယ်လွန်)

Volunteer for HMEE, SPZP, SDYF, ARITA

General အထွေထွေ

Computer Science M.Sc ဘွဲ့ရ

• U San Lin ဦးစံလင်း (EC73)
• U Htun Aung Kyaw ဦးထွန်းအောင်ကျော် (EC73)
• U Khin Maung Aye ဦးခင်မောင်အေး (M73, ကွယ်လွန်)

Hovercraft Project Interview

• စီစဉ်သူ — တက္ကသိုလ်မိုးဝါ

ဦးကြည်အောင် (ChE73)

• Donor
• Class photo ပို့ပေး

by Hla Min

Updated : May 2026

Female Engineering Students

• In the old Education System, there were only a handful of female Engineering students
• The first batch of five female students graduated in 1961.
  Four were from Textile : Tin Tin Ohn (Amy Thwin), Julie Han (later Dr.), Yin Yin Kyi and Mi Mi Lay. Pauline Reynolds was the first female Chemical Engineering graduate.

• In 1962, Khin Than Nwe (Margaret, Tex) was the lone female engineering graduate.

• Ma Ni Ni Thwin, Ma Khin Thein Yi, Ma Tin Myint, Ma Pyi Aye, Ma Khin Khin Kyu, Nancy Hla Aung, Maywaddy Tun Tun, Ma Yi Yi Aung, Ma Mya Mya Than, Ma Nyunt Nyunt Zaw, Ma Cho are grads from 1963 – 68.

• The new Education System saw more female students.
• There were about 45 female students in the 1st BE intake in 1964, and about 30 female students in the 2nd BE intake in 1964. G-Hall accepted most female students.
• There were more in the 1st BE intake in 1965.

Ushers at RIT Graduation

Annotation : Daw Mae Khin Nyunt (Rosie, ChE71)
Editor for “Swel Daw Yeik Magazine”
Organizer for Combined 1st BE Intake of 64 and 65

• We all served as ushers at the Graduation Dinner in late 1966.
• Graduation took place at RIT as well as the Dinner, at “aw bar lan” area.

Right to Left

• Sandi Hlaing — Ch 66 intake
• Mai Khin Nyunt (Rosie Gyi) — Ch 65 intake
• Nila Mya Aung — M 64 intake
• Jessie Htwe — M 66 intake
• Annie Ba Htaw — Tex65 intake
• Aye Aye Than (Pauk Pauk) Ch 66 intake (UK)
• Tin Tin Myint (Emma Myint) — Ch 64 intake (Singapore)
• Than Than Yi (GBNF) Tex 65 intake (my best friend who passed away in Sept 2013, USA)
• Phyu Phyu Latt (Christine Latt) — Ar – 64 intake (Australia)
• Min Thet Mon (Pamela Myo Min) — Ar -64 intake

Tazaungdaing Festival

Photo provided by Daw Tin Aye (C73).
Initially took Mechanical Engineering and helped with “Set Hmu Thadin Zin” (founded by U Win Thein).
Played Volley for Civil Engineering
Volunteered for SPZP-2012 and SPZP-2016

Annotation : Daw Mae Khin Nyunt (Rosie, ChE71)

Right to Left

• Aye Aye Than (Pauk Pauk, Ch 66-72, UK)
• Tin Tin Myint (Emma Myint, Ch 64-70, Singapore)
• Hla Hla Aye (She was as a cover girl at one of the “Shay Tho Sar Saung”, and inside the Sar Saung had an article about RIT activities with photos. I kept that Sar Saung, but unfortunately (after so many years) now I only have a page left with a photo taken at the Chemistry lab, which included Ma Khin Myat Swe (spouse of Saya U Moe Aung), Henry Koe, my spouse Ko Khin Mg Miynt and myself).
• Tin Aye (C )
• Nelly Khin Myo Win (GBNF) (Ch 65-71, Mandalay)
• Could be Margaret Yi (Ch 65)

All are from G -Hall at one of the Tha Din Gyut or Da Saung Taing Pwe at Shwe Dagon Pagoda, organized by G -Hall.

Reunions

Daw Pwint Than

• Selected High School Luyechun from Loikaw twice : Ngapali Camp in the Summer of 1964 and Inlay Camp in the Summer of 1965.
• Graduated with Electrical Power in 1971.
• Joined EPC.
• Spouse : U Htun Aung (EP, Intake of 1964)

Daw Cho Cho Tin

• Pen name : Ma Sandar
• Award winning author / novelist
• Sample hit : “G Hall Thu”
• Graduated with Architecture in 1971.
• Spouse : U San Maung (A, intake of 1964)

Daw Than Yi

• Maubin Ma Shwe Than

Rosie Gyi

• Editor, Swel Daw Yeik Magazine

Rosie Tin Maung

• Vocalist
• Bilingual Author

SPZP

• Attendees

by Hla Min

Updated : May 2026

Highlights

• Thaung Sein
• Attended Hwa Kyone. Sponsored publication of Hwa Kyone Centennial Magazine
• Attended GTI briefly
• Took Language Courses
• Matriculated with Distinctions in Maths, Physics & Chemistry.
• Admitted to 1st BE in Nov 1964 with Roll No. 8
• Graduated with Electrical Communications in 1970
• Moved to USA
• Successful careers as IC Designer, CEO of QTC, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist
• Never forgot his Roots, Alma Mater, Mentors & Motherland. He sang “Shwe Mi” at 2015 RIT Alumni Reunion in Los Angeles.

Special Name

• An administrator entered the name as Steeve (instead of Steve). He appreciated the name for being special.

Education

• MS from Stanford University
• MBA from Pepperdine University

Work & Experience

• Electronics Engineer : Designer of Power IC Chip
• Co-founder & CEO, QTC Management : His sister Dr. Lay Kay had patents for processing disability claims & requested Steeve to found QTC.
• After private investors showed interest in his company, he retired but continued to lead a multiple-purpose career
• Visiting places of the world’s leading religions
• Incubating projects of young professionals
• Supporting education (e.g. as trustee of UC Irvine & selected Colleges)
• Maintaining diverse business portfolio
• Helping those in need (via Kay Family Foundation & CABA)
• Continue paying back the metta & cetana of his mentors
  as Golden Sponsor of RIT Reunion & 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?

With best regards,
Steeve Kay (Ko Thaung Sein)

Sponsor / Host of Gatherings

• SPZPs (starting with SPZP-2000 in US)
• 40th Anniversary of “Arrival in US”

• Celebrating the Success of QTC
• Acariya Pu Zaw Pwe(s) for the Combined 1st BE Intake of 64
• 2015 RIT Alumni Reunion in Los Angeles

• Special PZP and Reunion in Yangon (after doctors advised against Long Trips)