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  • U Maung Maung Than Tun

    U Maung Maung Than Tun (GBNF)
    • Oldest among the surviving Past Captains of RUBC.
    • Retired Ambassador.
    • Founding member of Burma Rowing Federation.
    • He and his younger son Aung Khine is the first Pair of Father-Son who are Captain and Gold of RUBC.
    • His elder son Hla Maw Tun was Gold and Past Secretary of RUBC.
    • He is a few months older than U Tin U, most Senior among the surviving Past Captains.
    • U Tin U is now the Oldest and most Senior among the surviving Past Captains of RUBC.

  • HMEE Meeting in Mar 2012

    Ko Ohn Khine (M70) took me to Saya U Aung Hla Tun’s place on Inya Road to attend the “History of University Engineering Education in Burma/Myanmar” meeting.

    The book was published in time for SPZP-2012 in December, 2012.

    Ko Ohn Khine and I compiled a CD supplement for the History Book.

    The early supporters for the project include Sayagyi U Ba Than and Saya U Soe Paing.

  • October 9, 2022

    Ceremony

    • Today is the Full Moon Day of Thadinkyut.
      It is known as “Abhidhamma Day”.
      It marks the end of the Buddhist Lent.
    • Pavayana Ceremony (General Assembly of monks) of the San Francisco Bay Area took place this year at Kusalakari monastery at French Camp. 30+ monks (including some from Sri Lankan monasteries took part).

    Attendees

    U Hla Min and spouse

    Some RIT alumni were among the attendees :

    • Kenneth Kay (Class of 66)
    • U Nyan Shein (Henry, C68)
    • Saya U Myat Htoo (C68)
    • U Hla Min (EC69)
    • Dr. Myint Thein (M73)
    • Daw Nyo Nyo Win (T73)
    • U Kyaw Lwin (Bobby, Class of 75)
    • U Nyunt Than (M86)
    • U Tin Maung Win (C86)

  • UCC Thingyan

    Su Paung Yahan Khan

    Thingyan (Burmese New Year) was often celebrated by UCC staff and students with “Su Paung Yahan Khan”.

    The Yahan Khan was performed at a selected monastery such as

    • Kaba Aye Sunlun Gu Kyaung
    • Mo Hnyin Taw Ya
    • Chan Myay Yeiktha

    Resident Monks (UCC Staff and/or Student)

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    Photo was taken in front of the UCC Building in Thamaing College Campus.

    • Sayagyi Dr. Chit Swe (GBNF)
    • U Win Maung
    • U Hla Min
    • U Tun Aung Gyaw
    • U Soe Myint (GBNF)
    • U Khin Maung Aye
    • Daw Khin Khin Latt †††

      U Tun Aung Gyaw (USA), U Khin Maung Aye (Singapore) and U Win Maung (Australia) are now Ph.Ds.

    Soon Kyway

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    • Photo shows the UCC Donlabas with a resident monk from Kaba Aye Sunlun Gu Kyaung.
    • There were two U Soe Myint at UCC.
    • U Soe Myint (M72) retired as Pro-Rector of ICST.
      He is GBNF.
    • U Soe Myint (KSM) retired from UN.

    Saya U Ko Ko Lay and UCC Belles

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    • Saya U Ko Ko Lay served as Operations Manager and Scientific Applications Manager at UCC. He later served as Professor at the Department of Computer Science (DCS) and the Institute of Computer Science and Technology (ICST).
      He is GBNF
    • Some UCC Belles worked or taught at UCC, DCS and ICST.
      Some worked for Computer Departments at other organizations (including UN and overseas).
    • Daw Nge Ma Ma Than was a Prisoner of Conscience.
      She is GBNF

    Entertainment

    UCC also had a Dobat Waing organized by U Win Hlaing.

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  • Gathering in New Jersey

    Sao Mon Sint (Cindy), Ko Sein Myint, U Soe Paing, Ko Soe Myint

  • RIT-UCC Connection

    • Some sayas and alumni worked or volunteered at UCC.
    • Saya U Sein Win served as Technical Advisor for UCC.
    • Saya Dr. San Tint and Saya U Shwe Hlaing served as External Examiners at UCC.
    • Several sayas and alumni attended courses at UCC.
    • I wrote “Memories of UCC” a few years back.
    • An article was published for the 30th Anniversary of ICST.
    • Sad to note that Saya Dr. Chit Swe, U Aung Zaw, U Soe Myint (M72) and several have passed away.
    Gathering at Dr. Rafiul Ahad’s house
    • The photo was taken at the UCC-RIT Gathering hosted by Dr. Rafiul Ahad (UCC) to welcome Saya U Soe Paing (EE, UCC) to the San Francisco Bay Area.
    • Rafiul is now retired VP of Oracle.

  • UCC Gathering

    UCC Gathering in Cupertino, CA


    U Khin Zaw (UCC) and Daw Wai Wai Tun (Physics) hosted a lunch gathering for U Khin Maung Zaw (KMZ, SPHS70, EC76, UCC) and family.

    Attendees include

    • Saya U Myo Min (UCC)
    • U Myint Swe (EP74) and Daw San San (EC74)
    • Maurice Chee (M75) and family
    • U Hla Kyi (EC77)
    • U Aung Myint Oo (EC84, UCC)
    • Dr. Rafiul Ahad (SPHS69, UCC) and spouse
    • Dr. Kyaw Tint (Physics)
    • U Thein Naing (Patrick, Physics) and Daw Khin Myo Aung (Physics)
    • U Hla Min (EC69, SPHS63, UCC) and spouse.
    • KMZ’s spouse (Daw Khin Khin Latt) is the daughter of U Soe Myint (Chief Editor, Journalist).
    • U Soe Myint is the elder brother U Soe Win (EC70), U Kyaw Zaw (EC72) and U Khin Zaw (UCC).
    • KMZ is a Microsoft Alumni and resides in Seattle, Washington.
    • KMZ designed http://www.ex-rit.org/ web site and served as its web master.

  • Mechanical Engg Sayas

    U Tin Hlaing

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    • Sayagyi U Aung Khin wrote “A tribute to Saya U Tin Hlaing” for SPZP-2000.
      The article has been re-posted in the newsletter updates and in the RIT Alumni Facebook Pages.
    • Joined Faculty of Engineering in 1959
    • MS from Purdue University
    • Headed the Agricultural Sub-Department under Mechanical Engineering
    • President, Universities Hockey Team

    U Han Tun

    • Joined RIT in 1965

    Dr. Chan Nyein

    • Joined RIT in 1967
    • Ph.D from Imperial College, University of London
    • Retired as Minister of Education

    U Hla Thwin

    • Took five days before the neighbors learned about his demise

    U Myo Win

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    U Myo Win and Auto Club members
    • Joined faculty in 1965
    • Rowed for RIT
    • Contributed articles to “RIT Alumni International Newsletter”.
    • Moved to Australia
    • There are GBNF posts containing memories and reflections of his former sayas, colleagues and students.

    U Kyaw Sein

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    U Kyaw Sein and “Oldies in Singapore”
    Pon Tu of UvKyaw Sein
    by Myat Myo Myint
    • Joined faculty in 1965
    • Moderator, RIT-related web site
    • Moved to Singapore
    • Passed away in 2020.

    Miscellaneous

    • U Soe Lwin
    • U Khin Maung
    • S. Arya
    Pon Tu of S Arya
    by Myat Myo Myint

  • EE60

    1960 လျှပ်စစ်အင်ဂျင်နီယာ နောက်ဆုံးနှစ် သင်တန်း

    ** ရှေ့တန်း

    * ဆရာများ

    T Kyin Khin, L တင်ထွန်း၊ ဦးစိန်လှိုင်၊ ဦးကျော်ထွန်း၊ William Paw, Dr. Guile, ကိုဘလွင်၊ ကိုမျိုးကြည်၊ ဦးတင်ဆွေ

    ** ဒုတိယတန်း

    ဟုတ်စိန်၊ တင်လှ၊ တင်မြင့်၊ မွန်ယု၊ …

    ** တတိယတန်း

    ကျော်ဇော၊ မြင့်သိန်း၊ ထွန်းရီ၊ လွင်ဆွေ၊ …

    *** 1960 လျှပ်စစ်အင်ဂျင်နီယာ နောက်ဆုံးနှစ် သင်တန်း

    ** ရှေ့တန်း

    * ဆရာများ

    T Kyin Khin, L တင်ထွန်း၊ ဦးစိန်လှိုင်၊ ဦးကျော်ထွန်း၊ William Paw, Dr. Guile, ကိုဘလွင်၊ ကိုမျိုးကြည်၊ ဦးတင်ဆွေ

    ** ဒုတိယတန်း

    ဟုတ်စိန်၊ တင်လှ၊ တင်မြင့်၊ မွန်ယု၊ …

    ** တတိယတန်း

    ကျော်ဇော၊ မြင့်သိန်း၊ ထွန်းရီ၊ လွင်ဆွေ၊ …

    ** စတုတ္ထတန်း

    စိုးသိန်း၊ ဌေးဆွေ၊ မြင့်သိန်း၊ မောင်ဝင်း၊ ရောဘတ်လှကို၊ သန်းဖေ၊ ဥာဏ်ထွန်း၊ သန်းထွဋ်

    Credit: Saya Dr. Chris Lee (L. Tin Htun, EE 59)
    Saya wrote:

    Caption on top of the photograph reads:

    UNIVERSITY OF RANGOON – FACULTY OF ENGINEERING TEACHING STAFF AND STUDENTS OF FINAL YEAR B.Sc. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING (1959 – 1960)

    Names listed below the photograph are as follows:

    Back Row (L. to R.) – Soe Thein (Mdy), Htay Swe (Mergui), Myint Thein (Rgn), Mg Win (Myaung), Robert Hla Ko (Yenangyaung), Than Pe (Mdy), Nyan Tun (Moulmein), Than Tut (Monywa), Robert Frank (Mdy), Mg Mg Myo Nyunt (Ngamyagyi), Kyaw Myint (Moulmein)

    3rd Row (L. to R.) – Kyaw Zaw (Yamethin), Myint Thein (Dedaye), Tun Yi (Rgn), Lwin Swe (Rgn), H. Num Futt (Rgn), Ohn Kyaw (Mdy), Myo Myint (Mdy), Aye Mg (Rgn), Mg Mg Hla (Rgn), Tin Mg Oo (Rgn), Sein Hla (Pegu)

    2nd Row (L. to R.) – Hoke Sein (Yangon), Tin Hla (Rgn), Tin Myint (Yenangaung), Moon Yu (Rgn), Lim Jin Twan (Rgn), San Hla (Mdy), Derrick Maurice (Rgn), Mg Mg (Monywa), Mg Mg Sint (Rgn), Tun Nyunt (Mdy), Tin Win (Moulmein)

    Front Row (Staffs) – T. Kyin Khoon B.Sc. (Eng), L. Tin Htun B.Sc. (Eng), U Sein Hlaing B.Sc. (Eng), S.M. (M.I.T.), Head of El. Eng. Department, U Kyaw Tun B.Sc., D.R.T.C. (Glasgow), A.M.I.E.E. (Lon), Prof. William Paw B.A., B. Com., M.B.A. (Harvard), Dr. A.E. Guile B.Sc. (Eng), Ph.D., A.M.I.E.E., Ko Ba Lwin B.Sc. (Eng), Ko Myo Kyi B.Sc. (Eng), U Tin Swe B.Sc. (Eng), M.S.E. (Michigan), A.M.I.R.E., A.M.A.I.E.E.

    Absentees: – Kyaw Win, Win Mg, Dennis Chit, Chit Thein, Than Tun, Patrick San Nyunt, John Grey.

    Notes

    The photo includes

    • H Num Fatt, younger brother of Saya H Num Kok (C)
    • U Soe Thein, younger brother of Saya Dr. Aung Soe (C)
    • Bohmu Lwin Swe

  • EC/EP 1967

    EC/EP 67

    Photo : U Myo Myint (EC67)

    • Aung Than
    • Henry Khoo
    • Hla Aung
    • Khin Naing / Cheng Hoke
    • Ko Ko Gyi
    • Kyaw Win
    • Maung Maung
    • Myint Kyaw (GBNF)
    • Myint Myint Than / Nancy Hla Aung (GBNF)
    • Myo Myint
    • San Oo, Dr.
    • Soe Tha
    • Thein Tun, Dr.
    • Win Myint
    • Yi Yi Aung