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  • RUBC in August 1954

    RUBC 1954
    • Tha Din (Bow)
    • Tin Htoon (2)
    • Tun Aung (George, 3)
    • Ronnie Hare (Stroke)
    • Aung Nyunt (Arthur, Cox)

  • RUBC Gathering in 1963

    RUBC Dinner in 1963

    Citing security reasons (following the outcry of the first Anniversary of 7th July atrocities), the RUBC Annual Regatta in 1963 was cancelled.

    In 1923, RUBC was founded by Sir Arthur Eggar (Professor of Law at the Rangoon University. He pledged a third of his salary for RUBC’s expenses.

    Sir Arthur was a member of the Cambridge University Rowing Club and a proponent of the Egg-Bairn Rowing Style. He was impressed with the prowess and dedication of the Burmese Laung rowers. He wanted to introduce the Western style of Rowing to RU students.

    The philanthropist U Nyo donated for the construction of the RU Estate. The fund was used several projects including the construction of the RU Students’ Union Building and for the Club House of RUBC. U Nyo donated a Challenge Cup for Inter-Club Eights. It was replaced in the mid 1950s by the President’s Challenge Cup (donated by the President of the Union of Burma).

    Sithu U Tin (President, RUBC, Father of Dr. Nyunt Tin and Saya U Han Tin) decided not to cancel the party to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the founding of Rangoon University Boat Club.

    Sithu U Tin, U Po Zon (Vice President) and U Tin Htoon compiled the RUBC History and published it in the Souvenir Program. It lists Past EC members and RUBC Golds.

    Some attendees are seen in the group photo. Sad to note that a few are now GBNF (Gone But Not Forgotten).

    They include

    • U Tin Htoon (Past Captain and Gold, ARAE Champion in 1958 and 1960)
    • Bohmu Hla Min (Eddie, Orthopedic Surgeon, Golden Cox)
    • U Win Kyi (SPED, son of Sayama Amelia Kyi (“Miss Hong Kong”, SPHS, RUBC Gold in 1959)
    • U Myo Myint (RUBC Gold in 1962)
    • U Thein Aung (Micky Tan, SPHS59, Physics Saya, RUBC Gold in 1962)
    • U Thaung Lwin (Captain and RUBC Gold in 1963)
    • U Than Htut (RUBC Gold in 1963)
    • …
    • U Myint Soe (Willie Soe Maung)
    • U Kyaw Wynn
    • U Maung Maung Kyi
    • U Hla Min
      The four of us matriculated from SPHS in 1963.
      We were Runner-up for the Senior Novices in the Monsoon Regatta for 1963. We were awarded Full Green at the end of the term.
      Our cox was U Myint Thein (SPHS62, younger brother of U Win Htein and U Myo Myint).

  • Sar Saung for SPZP-2002

    • SWEL DAW YEIK SAR SAUNG for SPZP-2002 (Singapore).
    • Saya U Moe Aung (Tekkatho Moe War) & team published the commemorative issue.
    • They reprinted my poem (first published in the web pages of http://www.ex-rit and the commemorative newsletter). Thanks.

  • SPZP (2)

    SPZP 2012

    SPZP 2016

  • Swel Daw Yeik Sar Saung for SPZP-2010

    Front cover
    Editorial
    Pages 2 – 3
    Pages 4 – 5
    Pages 6 – 7
    Pages 8 – 9
    Pages 10 – 11
    Pages 12 – 13
    Pages 14 – 15
    Pages 16 – 17
    Pages 18 – 19
    Pages 20 – 21
    Pages 22 – 23
    Page 24 and Back Cover

    Saya U Moe Aung

    Saya is a Laureate Poet, distinguished writer and editor. Saya served as Chief Editor of the Commemorative Issues of Swel Daw Yeik Sar Saung for

    • SPZP-2002
    • SPZP-2007
    • SPZP-2010

    Saya suggested a name for my article which appears on Pages 20 – 24. Thanks.

  • SPZP-2007

    SPZP-2007

    by Hla Min

    Updated : May 2025

    SPZP-2007 was hosted by the alumni in Singapore in April, 2007. It was the Fourth RIT Grand Reunion and Saya Pu Zaw Pwe. The previous three were

    • SPZP-2000 (San Francisco, October 2000)
    • SPZP-2002 (Singapore, December 2002)
    • SPZP-2004 (Yangon, December 2004)

    Yangon was designated to hold the SPZP in 2006, but due to changes in the political climate, Yangon requested Singapore (the alternate host) to take over. Subsequently, the two-year interval between the SPZPs became 2.5 years.

    Kudos

    to the Core organizers — Nyan Win Shwe, Maung Aunt, Zaw Tun Naing, Zaw Win Htut & team

    and to the Advisers: Saya Dr. Tin Hlaing, Saya U Tin Lin, …

  • Selected Photos

    Mid 1960s

    When I posted the picture, one reader commented, “This is a boarder feeling helpless because he had not received money from his parents.”

    • I was a day scholar.
    • I had a free ride from my cousin Saya U Ba Than.
    • I received K75 for the Collegiate Scholarship. After paying K15 for tuition, the remaining money was good enough.
    • I am not photogenic.
    • I am not known for good smiles (except when I’m spending quality time with my Myees).

    1970s

    • My spouse attended Leik Khone for her 1st MBBS classes.
    • With our two sons

    Life savers

    • They are now in Fourth and First Grades. Their hobbies include: Music and Sports.
    • The old photo shows my elder son and my elder Myee rooting for Golden State Warriors (then Three-time NBA Champion, later Four-time NBA Champion).
    • No (30) is the Jersey of Steph Curry (Point Guard). He was then a two-time Regular Season MVP. He later won the NBA Finals MVP.
    • My younger Myee would also shout “Go Warriors”.
    • He would occasionally give me a “Big Kiss”.
    • He loves soccer, basketball and swimming. He is a Kung Fu brown-black belt. He plays the piano well.

  • U Silanandabhivamsa

    ITBMU ပါမောက္ခချုပ် Rector

    ဆရာတော် ဦးသီလာနန္ဒာဘိဝံသ

    Sayadaw served as the inaugural Rector of the International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University.

    U Silananda

    အထိမ်းအမှတ် မော်ကွန်းဝင် စာစောင်
    Book honoring Sayadaw

    I served as Contributing Editor to the Book honoring Sayadaw U Silananda.

    Book paying homage to U Silananda

    ကျွမ်းကျင် တဲ့ ဘာသာ စကား (တချို့) Language Proficiency

    • မြန်မာ Burmese
    • အင်္ဂလိပ် English
    • ပါဠိ Pali
    • သင်္သကရိုက် Sanskrit

    စာအုပ် နဲ့ သင်တန်း (တချို့)
    Publications & Classes

    • ဆဌသံဂါယနာ Sixth Buddhist Council
      Chief Compiler, တိပိဋက ပါဠိမြန်မာ အဘိဓာန် Tipitaka Pali-Burmese Dictonary
    • တရားဦး First Sermon
      ဆရာတော် ရဲ့ စိန်ရတု Diamonf Jubilee မှာ Reprint လုပ်
    • Abhidhamma Studies
      အဘိဓမ္မာ

    မြန်မာဘာသာ နဲ့ Lectures, စာအုပ် တွေ ရှိ

    • Dependent Origination
      ပဋိစ္စသမုပ္ပါဒ်
    • Pariitta Pali & Protective Verses
      ပရိတ္တပါဠိ & ဘာသာပြန်

    ပါဠိ – အင်္ဂလိပ် Tape (Supplement)

    ပါဠိ – မြန်မာ Tape လည်းရှိ

    • အခြေခံဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာသင်တန်း
      Fundamentals of Buddhism
      MP3

    ဦးသီလာန္ဒာဘိံဝံသ ခန်းမ
    U Silananda Hall

    အမှတ်တရ အခန်းအနား

    ဆရာတော် ရဲ့ Bio & Achievements ဖတ်ခဲ့ ရ

    အထွေထွေ General

    • Internet က နားထောင်နိုင် Can listen to Sayadaw’s talks on YouTube
    • Some of Sayadaw’s books have been published by TMC (Tathagata Meditation Center)

  • Institute of Agri

    *** စိုက်ပျိုးရေး

    ** ကျောင်း

    1924

    မန္တလေး

    စိုက်ပျိုးရေး ကောလိပ် + သုတေသန Institute

    3 နှစ် ဒီပလိုမာ သင်တန်း

    —

    1938

    မန္တလေး

    စိုက်ပျိုးရေး ကောလိပ်

    Rangoon University လက်အောက်ခံ ကောလိပ်

    ဥပစာ + နှစ် နှစ် (စုစုပေါင်း 4 နှစ်) ဒီဂရီ

    B.Sc (Agri)

    —

    1955

    ဥပစာ + သုံး နှစ် (စုစုပေါင်း 5 နှစ်) ဒီဂရီ

    B.Sc (Sericulture) — ထပ်တိုး

    —

    1964

    Institute of Agriculture

    —

    1973 နောက်ပိုင်း

    ရေဇင်း

    စိုက်ပျိုးရေးတက္ကသိုလ်

    —

    ** ဆရာ တချို့

    ဦးသန်းထွန်း

    ဆလိုင်းထွန်းသန်း

    —

    ** ဆက်နွယ်

    Agronomy

    ARI — Agriculture Research Institute

    Dr ကောင်းဇံ

    Agricultural Engineering

    Sub-department of Mechanical Engineering

    ဦးတင်မောင်ညွန့်

  • Institute of Education

    ** ပညာရေး တက္ကသိုလ်

    ** ရှေး

    1924

    ပညာရေး Department

    ရန်ကုန်တက္ကသိုလ်

    1931

    Teachers’ Training College တီတီစီ

    ရန်ကုန်တက္ကသိုလ်

    —-

    ** စနစ်သစ် ပညာရေး

    1964

    ပညာရေးတက္ကသိုလ်

    Institute of Education

    —-

    ** နောက်

    Yangon Institute of Education

    Yangon University of Education

    —-

    ** ပင်မ ဘာသာရပ် များ

    ပညာရေးသီအိုရီ နဲ့ စီမံ ခန့်ခွဲမှု

    Educational Theory & Management

    ပညာရေး စိတ်ပညာ

    Educational Psychology

    သင်ရိုး — ရေးဆွဲ / ဖေါ်ထုတ်

    Curriculum & Development

    ကာယပညာ + ကျောင်း ကျန်းမာရေး

    Physical Education & School Health

    —

    ** ဆရာ တချို့

    ဒု ဗမက စံမြင့်

    ဦးကျော်

    ဦးခင်မောင်တင့် (တက္ကသိုလ်ဘုန်းနိုင်)

    Dr ခင်ဇော်

    Dr ဒေါ်ခင်မြ

    —

    ** Practicing School လေ့ကျင့်ရေးကျောင်း

    Alumni တချို့

    Dr မျိုးတင့် (3rd in Burma in 1952)

    Dr တင်မျိုးသန်း (2nd in Burma in 1954)

    Dr ဇင်အောင် (ရူပဗေဒ)

    —

    ** ဆက်နွယ်

    ပညာရေး ကောလိပ် များ