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St. Patrick’s High School, Moulmein
By U Aye (M62)

Updated : June 2025
- First school established by the De La Salle Brothers in Burma.
- Built in Moulmein (1860)
- Photos taken during my visit to the school (2016)
Clock Tower, boarding house upstairs, exam hall below

Photos taken during my visit

St. Pat 1

St. Pat 2

St. Pat 3

Entrance

Memories

Our class photo V B

Our class photo VII Std

Class teacher Bro. Sebastian.
I met Bro Sebastain during our first year at Leikkone in 1958-59 while he was attending BAed.

Ko Ko Lay (UCC) first row, sitting second from left.
U Aye (M62), second row, sitting second from right.
B. Singh (RU goalkeeper) third row, first from right,
Myo Lwin (M63), third row third from right.

Absentees : Kyaw Win (M62), Peter Gale.

Bro Canice was Bro Director,
House Master Mr. E. Swarris,
House Capt. Dr. Aung Myin (Eye, passed away in UK around 2018),
U Win Naing (MS pulp and paper)(CRO) third row, fourth from right,
U Aye, third row, third from right.

Our matriculation class 1955-56

Bro Austin, Bro Director,
Bro Wilfrid, Class teacher,
U Tun Shwe, Myanmar Sar,
Mr. DeMonte, Moral and Manners.

Peter Gale,
Dr. Thet Lwin (Statistics),
B. Singh (RU goalkeeper),
medical doctors Dr JK Sinha (UK), Dr Rafi, Dr Rajani Vora, India,
Capt. Aung Myint, Capt Ya Kyaw, Myo Lwin (M63),
Kyaw Win (M62), John Ba Maung, Russian Lecturer (IFL)

Prof. Khin Zaw (Chemistry),
Saw Alfred Keh (Preacher after graduation, son of pre-WW2, RU footballer Washington Keh),
U Kyi Win (BPI),
U Aye
among others.

St Patrick’s HS football team of late 40s and early 50s

During 1948-49, St Pat’s team beat all other Schools’ Combined team. Some of the team members were-

Bernard Henry – Goalkeeper,

R. S. Pathy, Tin Aye — Fullbacks,

Pway Ain (Htay Aung), Jimmy Innes, Tin Ngwe (Mid-field),

Rama (Rightwinger), Khine Thein, SV Lingham, Jimmy Sein (Tint Swe), B. Boudville (Left winger).

Later Pway Ain (Htay Aung) played for RU, Jimmy Sein (Tint Swe) played for Prome Hall and RU.
Jimmy Innes played for Customs FC in Rangoon first div.

Many played in Friends Union FC in Moulmein first div.

St Patrick’s Alumini, Ko Ko Gyi,
Tenasserim division and Burma selected footballer.

Standing second from L Pway Ain(Hyay Aung)) and Jimmy Sein(Tint Swe) seated second from L, were from St Patrick’s HS football team

B.Singh back row, fifth from L in black goalkeeper jersey, the tall guy was from St Patrick’s HS, he was also a Tenasserim Division player. He was my classmate in St Pat.

Dennis Mackey (C73) wrote

Thanks for this piece as part of your “Work in Progress”.

Below are photos and notes that I posted on my FB page and on St. Patrick’s HS, Moulmein FB public group page.

April 8, 2017 When I visited former St. Patrick’s High School
https://www.facebook.com/dennis.mackey.kyawthu/posts/506160823105973

My posts – St Patrick’s High School, Moulmein (Public group)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/140542742679500/user/100011361797511

St Patrick’s High School, Moulmein (Public group)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/140542742679500/

Updates
- De La Salle Schools — St. Pat (Moulmein), St. Paul’s (Rangoon), St. Peter’s (Mandalay), St. Albert’s (Maymyo), St. Columban’s (Bhamo), St. Joseph’s (Loikaw), DLS (Twante)
- Private schools were nationalized on April 1, 1965
- U Aye represented RU & BIT in Volleyball. He graduated with Mechanical Engineering in 1962. He worked for HIC and FAO.
Posts
- Burma Selected
- De La Salle
- RU Athletes
- Sports
- Volleyball
June 20, 2025
SPZP-2012 Info
by Hla Min & Win Khaing

Updated : June 2035

Meeting & Decisions

The last meeting was on 6 May 2012 and it was decided to:
- Date of Saya PZP 2012 : 30 Dec 2012 (Sunday)
- 30 Dec PZP venue : RIT, Gyogon (open air) 8 am onwards – breakfast and lunch will be served
- 30 Dec Dinner venue : Myanmar Convention Centre (MCC) 6 pm-10 pm (by ticket sales)
- No of sayas to be invited : 320 plus
- No of expected alumni : 3500 plus for Saya PZP event at RIT (refreshments will be served)
- Entertainment programme by alumni during dinner event at MCC
- Special magazine will be published
- Year book will be published
- Exhibition, photo display, cartoon box will be held
- Souvenir stalls for 2013 calendar, t shirt, jerkin, key chain, note book, etc…
- Sale of History of Myanmar Engineering Education compiled by Sayas and alumni
- 20 rooms x 2 days will be reserved for overseas sayas at Summit Park View hotel (29-30 Dec)
Organizing Team

Saya U Lin, Saya U Tun Shwe, Saya U Myo Kyi, Saya Dr Win Thein are attending the meetings for guidance and advice.
- U Win Khaing (Chair)
- U Saw Lin (Main organizing)
- U Hla Win (Secretary)
- U Ohn Khine
- U Than Po (Entertainment)
- U Win Htain Oo
- U Ko Ko Gyi
- U Zaw Naing (Website)
- U Myint Aung (Publicity and media)
- U Soe Myint (Joint secretary)
- U Tin Maung Naing (Souvenirs)
- U Than Win (Dinner event)
- U Tin Tun Aung (Finance)
- U Zaw Min (Logistics)
- U Tin Oo (Fund raising)
- Daw Pyone Pyone Oo (Data and invitation)
Updates (by Hla Min)
- Dr. Win Thein, U Saw Lin, U Win Khaing and U Than Po are now GBNF
Dr. Win Thein

U Saw Lin (Seated Left)

M75

U Than Po (Right)
June 20, 2025
January 2013
by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

Greetings

Dear Sayas and Colleagues,

Wishing all of you a Happy and Prosperous New Year.

Thanks

Thanks to all the readers — mostly silent but occasionally appreciative.

RIT Sayas

Since I was a Saya, but not at RIT, I was not as busy as my classmates who were RIT sayas attending SPZPs once or twice a day.

Guest

Some alums (e.g. class of 70 and 71, Mech 72, Civil 75) invited me as guest to their class reunions and/or SPZPs. Thanks.

69ers

My classmates (from the class of 69++) had a grand reunion lunch, where Ko Aung Min made a roll call of the GBNF before being entertained to food, drinks, welcome addresses, songs and dances. Thanks. Please read Ko Aung Min’s e-mail.

With metta,

Hla Min

From U Aung Min (M69)

Dear All 69++er Classmates,
- Today, (31 December, 2012) we RIT 1969++ classmates held a grand re-union lunch successfully.
- About 90 classmates including about 8 ladies join the re-union, from abroad and in land.
- Although we sold the lunch tickets @ 10000 Kyats per head, KO TIN WIN (Mining) took the opportunity of hosting the re-reunion and providing Whiskey.
- So, almost all the cash, sold amount, will be transferred to the 69er Health Care Fund
- Ko Kyaw Zin also brought one liter of Chivas
- Danny, Albert, and Saw Law La Htwe — good vocalists — entertained at the ceremony.
With Metta,
Aung Min
June 20, 2025
High Concentration Activity
by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025
- Also known as HCA
- Some use the term “In the zone”
My Moments of HCA

RUBC (2013)

90th Anniversary
- Contributing Editor for the Commemorative issue of the RUBC 90th Anniversary Magazine
- Proposed to write Prelude for each section
- HCA lasted less than an hour. I completed the Prelude for all sections.
UCC and ICST (Jan 2018)

ICST
- Attended the 5th Acariya Pu Zaw Pwe of ICST as a Member of Generation Zero
- Later gave a guest lecture at UCSY (University of Computer Studies in Yangon).
- In my desire to pay back to UCC, I wrote 30+ posts on “Memories of UCC” in three days of HCA.
- Phyu Phyu Kyaw (my former student) told me that I should not be spending too much time in Yangon reminiscing about UCC. She asked, “Would you like to have a two-night three-day vacation at Bagan?”
Sharing Knowledge / Experience (2018 – Present)
- After I came back to the USA, I decided to share my memories with my sayas and alumni.
- My spouse told me that we should pay back to our beloved land, our ancestors and our mentors.
- Started posting “Trivia” to my Facebook friends. Then opened up to the General Public.
- Started revising and archiving in my web site: hlamin.com
- Posted on selected Facebook Pages : RIT Updates, Myanmar, Memories and Fun with Learning
- I am a
  “Jack of All Trades, and Master of Some”,
  Mini-Dictionary,
  Micro-Google,
  Life long learner,
  Distinguished Toastmaster,
  Amateur historian (former Docent of the Computer History Museum),
  “Sar Pay Chit Thu စာပေချစ်သူ” : freelance writer, editor & translator,
  Volunteer for alumni, religious & social organizations.
- Depending on my HCA, I have written and/or updated dozens of posts daily.
June 20, 2025
Swel Daw Yeik Foundation
by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

စွယ်တော်ရိပ်ဖေါင်ဒေးရှင်း

2013 တွင် ဖွဲ့စည်း Formed in 2013

မှတ်တမ်း (တချို့)

တံဆိပ် Logo

SDYF 1

ဆရာ ဆရာမ များ ရဲ့ ကျန်းမာရေး — ဦးစား Health Care for Sayas & Sayamas is a Priority

အခမ်းအနား Ceremony

SDYF 2

ဦးဝင်းထိန်ဦး — Organizer / Fundraiser

SDYF 3

Annual Medical Checkup

SDYF 4

လစဉ် အစည်းအဝေး (Covid မတိုင်မီ) Monthly Meeting (before the pandemic)

SDYF 5

ဆရာဦးမိုးအောင် — နာယက U Moe Aung : Patron

ဦးခင်မောင်ထွန်း — ဥက္ကဌ၊ U Khin Maung Tun, President & Major Donor

ဆက်နွယ် Related
- Steeve and Helen Kay Health Care Fund for RIT Sayas and Sayamas
- Vision Care — ဦးခင်မောင်ထွန်း မိသားစု
SDYF ထောက်ပံ့မှု များ Assistance
- Hospitalization
- Special Cases
- Long term care assistance
- Frequent visits to Clinic
Posts
- Annual Medical Checkup
- Health Care Funds
- Jara, Byadi & Marana
June 20, 2025
List of RIT Sayas
by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

Background

HMEE book (published in 2012) has interesting information and Appendices

One is a list of sayas assigned to RIT in 1964

Another is a list of sayas in 1988

Sayas in 1988

For those who have not seen them, Saya U Tin Myint has shared the list from 1988

နောက်ထပ်ထွက်လာတဲ့ အာအိုင်တီသမိုင်းဝင် အမိန့်စာတစ်ခု။

၁၉၈၈ ဖေဖဝါရီလ ၅ ရက် ကထွက်တဲ့ အဆည အမိန့်စာ

ရုတ်တရက်ကြည့်ရင်တော့ ရာထူးတိုး အမိန့်စာတစ်စောင်ပါဘဲ။

– ၁၉၈၈ ခုနှစ်က အာအိုတီ ဆရာအင်အား စာရင်း အပြည့်အစုံကိုတွေ့ရမယ်။ ကျနော်မှတ်မိသလောက်ဆို ဆရာအင်အားအပြည့်ဆုံး အချိန်ဆိုရမလားဘဲ။ ဒါပေမဲ့ နိုင်ငံခြားပညာသင် အခွင့်အရေး တွေ ခါတိုင်းထက် ပိုလာတဲ့ကာလ၊ ဒီတော့ ကျောင်း လက်ကျန်အင်အားကလျော့၊ ရန်ကုန်မှာ ကျန်ခဲ့တဲ့ ဆရာတွေက တစ်ပါတ်ကို စာသင်ချိန် ၂၀ -၂၅ လောက်ယူရတယ်။

– ရာထူးတိုးမပေးတာ ဘယ်လောက်ကြာသွားလဲဆိုတော့ စီနီယာ ကျတဲ့ ကျနော်တို့ဆရာကြီးတွေ ရာထူးတိုးဘို့ ဘယ်လောက်ကြာခဲ့လဲဆိုတာ အမိန့်စာကို သေချာကြည့် သိသာလှပါတယ်၊ ကျနော်တို့က လက်ထောက်ကထိက ရာထူးရဖို့ ၆ နှစ်လောက်ဘဲစောင့်လိုက်ရတယ်၊ ကျနော်တို့ဆရာကြီးတွေက ၁၀နှစ် ၁၅နှစ်မက စောင့်ရတယ်၊

အခုကာလကတော့ မြင်မြင်သမျှ ပါမောက္ခ ပါ။

– စက်မှုဌာနမှာ အရင်က ဆရာမ ဆိုလို့ ဒေါ်ဂျက်စီထွေးတစ်ယောက်ဘဲရှိရာကနေ၊ ၂ ယောက်ဖြစ်တဲ့ အချိန်၊ အခုကျတော့ ဆရာမ အင်အားများတဲ့ ပြောင်းပြန်ကာလ၊်

Sayas 1

Sayas 2

Sayas 3

Sayas 4

Sayas 5

Posts
- Education Systems
- HMEE
- Positions & Salaries
June 19, 2025
Four M70
by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

U Tha Htay

Four M70
- Graduated with Mechanical Engineering in 1970.
- Entrepreneur & Philanthropist
- Major Donor for the Reunion & Acariya Pu Zaw Pwe of the Combined 1st BE Intake of 64 and 65.
- Organized a Trip for Saya U Ba Than & selected attendees of SPZP-2012.
- Helped organize the farewell party for U Shwe Hlaing (RIT Maths) and also delivered the farewell message in Burmese.
- He is seen in the photo with his M70 classmates.
U Soe Aung
- Mech / Auto
- Secretary of RIT Ah Nu Pyinnya Ah Thinn
- Played the Clarinet
U Win Aung
- High School Luyechun from TTT Practicing School in the Summer of 1964.
- Secretary of RIT Swimming & Water Polo Association.
U Win Htay (Walter)
- Hosted his cousin Saya U Tun Shwe during Saya’s visit to attend 2015 RIT Alumni Reunion in Los Angeles.
- Grapevine says that Walter’s friends shouted “Cheng Lyan” in front of his house. His father came out.
Posts
- Class of 1970
- Combined 1st BE Intake of 64 and 65
- RIT Days (1964 – 70)
June 19, 2025
Comics and Cartoons
by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

Sayings
- Laughter is the best medicine — feature in Reader’s Digest
- Need less nerves to smile than to frown
- A cartoon a day keeps the blues away
- Comics & Cartoons have no age boundaries
Comics

During our times, we read
- Beano
- Dandy
- Topper
- Beezer
- Film Fun
- Joke & Humor book(s) : D. S. Saluja had 200+
- Annual & Special Edition
- Can be bought from book shops like Smart & Mookerdam
- BSPP era saw the publication of Shwe Thway & Teza
Early Cartoonists
- Published in newspapers, magazines & books
To name a few
- Shwe Ta Lay
- U Ba Gyan
- U Heng Soon
- U Aung Shein
- U Pe Thein
- U Than Kywe
- U Ba Htwe
- U Kyaw San (“Ka Sa”)
  …
- The “Cartoon Festival” was held in U Ba Gyan Street (around Tazaung Daing).
- In the mid 1950s, there was a rift between the two factions of AFPFL. Some cartoonists took sides and a “price war” started. The cartoons, which sold for 60 pyas were then given away at bargain prices (any where between 10 and 50 pyas).
- About a decade ago, my spouse paid K10,000 for a copy of “old” cartoons published in the Rangoon Times.
  Some are political satire.
RIT Cartoon Box

Cartoon Box
- Started by U Myint Pe (M72) & team with the Patronage of Saya U Khin Maung Phone Ko (“Phone Ko”, C64) and Saya U Aung Myint (Kyant Ba Hone, Pet69)
Myint Pe (Center)
- “Phone Ko” was known for his Vietnam cartoons
U Khin Maung Phone Ko
- “Kyant Ba Hone” looked like “Nick Kelly”, but the contents are different.
Ko Kyant (3rd from Left)
- Maintained by three (or more) generations of Cartoon Boxers
- Cartoon Box was “ordered to close” after 1988
- History of the Cartoon Box is published in the Swel Daw Yeik Magazine for SPZP-2012
- Collection of RIT Cartoons was published in time for SPZP-2012
- Pamphlet of RIT Cartoons distributed at Shwe YaDu in 2014 and SPZP-2016
- Some (e.g. “Aw Pi Kye”) became professional cartoonists and exhibited their works in Myanmar and beyond (e.g. Asian Cartoon Exhibition)
- RIT Main Gate was named “U Lu Paw” (at the suggestion of Ko Win Thein (M67))
- U Myint Soe (C68, GBNF) & U Myint Thein (M69, GBNF) are fondly called Maung Kabar
Sample RIT Cartoons

Cartoon 1

Cartoon 2

Cartoon 3

Cartoon 4

Cartoon 5

Cartoon 6

Cartoon 7

Posts
- Cartoon Box
- Ko Kyant
- RIT Cartoons
- Swel Daw Yeik Magazine
June 19, 2025
News in Brief & Opinion
by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

ဦးရဲမြင့်(ChE70) မွေးနေ့အလှူ
- SDYF (Swel Daw Yeik Foundation) — K 10 Lakhs
- Eradication of Hunger — K 20 Lakhs
September 2024 အလှူရှင်

Ngwe Tun
- ဦးငွေထွန်း၊
- ဦးတင်ရှိန်၊
- ဦးသန်းဝင်း၊
- ဦးချမ်းငြိမ်း၊
- ဒေါ်ခင်သန်းမြင့်တင်၊
- ဦးစောမြင့်နိုင်၊
- ဦးဖေဟန်ထွန်း
1961 Matric Exam
- 1st — Lina Ong (MEHS, ကွယ်လွန်)
- 2nd — Robin Ban (SPHS)
Medication
- ဆေး တွေမှာ side effect ရှိနိုင်
- အစားတွေ မှာ ဆေး အာနိသင်ရှိနိုင်
- Medical Reports တွေ အပြောင်းအလဲရှိနိုင်
U Kyaw Myint wrote;

အစာလဲဆေး ဆေးလဲအစာ
မသင့်သောအစာသည် အနီးကပ်ဘေး
အနီးကပ်ဘေးသည် မသင့်သောအစာ

Memory Loss မှတ်ဥာဏ် ချို့ယွင်း

လူသိ — အမည်မသိ
အမည်သိ — လူမသိ
လူ ရော အမည် ရော မသိ

စွယ်တော်ရိပ်

မဂ္ဂဇင်း — 2012, 2014, 2016
စာစောင်— 2002, 2007, 2010

Jara, Byadi, Marana

ကဗျာ မှာ ဇရာ၊ ဗျာဓိ၊ မရဏ မရှိ — Tekkatho Moe War
Alumni တွေမှာ တော့ ရှိ

Pu Zaw Pwe

မောင်မာဃ ရဲ့ အစီအစဉ်
ငွေရတု ပူဇော်ပွဲ
စင်ပေါ်တက်ဘို့မလို
Meet, Greet, Fete

Mg Mar Ga wrote :

ဆရာတွေကထိုင်မြဲအတိုင်းထိုင်နေ…
တပည့်တွေကနတ်တို့ရှိခိုးနည်းအတိုင်းရှိခိုးမယ်
ဆရာဥိးကျင်စိုးကကိုဗစ်ကာလတုန်းကကတိပြုထားတယ်
ဒိတခါကန်တော့ရင်တက်ပါမယ်တဲ့ ရအောင်ဖိတ်မယ်

Alumni helping Alumni

ဦးခင်မောင်မြင့်
ဦးသန်းဝင်း
တို့ကို စုပေါင်း ကူ
သာဓု၊ သာဓု၊ သာဓု
June 19, 2025
Chemical Engineering
- ChE courses were introduced in 1955 with Contract Sayas from India.
U Khin Aung Kyi

U Khin Aung Kyi
- Stood 7th in Burma in the Matriculation of 1949.
- While attending Rangoon University as a Mechanical Engineering student, he received State Scholarship to study Chemical Engineering at MIT.
- Received BS and MS from MIT.
- Joined Rangoon University as Assistant Lecturer.
- Promoted to Lecturer, and later as Professor and Head of ChE Department.
- Succeeded Dr. Aung Gyi as Rector in 1977.
- In 1988, he moved to Thailand & taught at Rengsit University.
- Former students sponsored him to attend SPZP-2000 in California, USA.
- In 2012, he gave an interview to U Ohn Khine (M70) & team for the HMEE project.
- Passed away in Yangon in 2021.
ChE Magazine

ChE Magazine
- U Aung Gyi (Simon, ChE62) & team published the magazine.
- Has a list of ChE graduates from 1957 to 1961.
ChE 57
- Ko Hla Myint (Mack)
  Dr. Hla Myint taught at RIT before moving to Thailand and Australia.
Dr. Hla Myint (Seated 3rd from Left)
- Saw Alpheus San Doke
- Ko Mya Shwe / Khoo Hoke Gwan
- Ko Mya Than
ChE 58
- Ko Soe Maung
- Ko Win Pe
- Ko Tun Aung Thwin
ChE 59
- Ko Khin Maung Lin
- Ko Win Myint
- Ko Mg Mg Sein
- Mr. Wong Koon Sha / Khin Zaw
- Ko Mg Than /Min Jack Tham (Distinction)
- Ko Sein Win
- Mr. Siong Yam (Distinction)
ChE 60
- Ko Tha Tun Aung
- Ko Aung Lin
- Ko Tint Shein
- Ko Sann Tin
- Ko Aung Zaw Win
- Ko Myint Wai
- Ko Mg Mg Win (Distinction)
  Dr. Maung Maung Win (GBNF) retired as Professor and Head of Chemical Engineering
Dr. Maung Maung Win

ChE 61
- Mr. Razman Ali
- Ko Ba Htay
- Mr. Chwan Pein Kyan
- Miss Pauline Reynolds
  She was the first female ChE. She was one of the first six female Engineers. She moved to Bangkok.
Pauline
- Ko Hla Shein
BIT (1961 – 62)

Staff and Students of ChE

ChE 3

Staff and Final Year Students of ChE

ChE 4

Senior ChE Sayas and Alumni
- U Kyaw Tun (GBNF)
- U Ko Ko
- U Maung Maung Chwan
- U Tin Aung (Dr. K C Chiu, ChE63)
- U Maung Maung (George, ChE66)
U Maung Maung (George)
- U Myat Thwin (Keusan Lin, ChE66)
U Myat Thwin
- U Ne Win Myint (ChE66, GBNF)
- U Tint Swe (ChE66)
- Daw Tin Myint (ChE66)
Daw Tin Myint
- U Htun Aung Kyaw (ChE67)
U Htun Aung Kyaw
- U Ohn Maung (ChE68, GBNF)
- Dr. Taing Oke (ChE69)
Dr. Taing Oke
- U Kyaw Min (Ei Kun, ChE69)
- Albert Kyaw Min (ChE69)
- Daw Yi Yi Khaing (Vilma, ChE69)
- Daw Khin Swe Aye (Winnie, ChE70)
- Daw Tin Tin Myint (Emma, ChE70)
- Daw Tin May Soe (ChE70)
- U Kyaw Win Maung (ChE70)
- U Win Paing (U Wara, ChE70, GBNF)
- U Aung Min (ChE70)
- U Khin Maung Myint (ChE71)
- Daw Mai Khin Nyunt (ChE71)
- U Aung Myaing (ChE72)
- Daw Gyn Yu (ChE72)
- U Tun Shwe (ChE72)
- Trixie Tan (ChE72)
- U Myo Myint Pe (ChE72, GBNF)
- Daw Aye Aye Kyaw (ChE72, GBNF)
- U Kyi Aung (ChE73)
June 19, 2025