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  • First in Burma (Matric)

    First in Burma (Matric)

    by Hla Min

    Update : July 2025

    Pre-war စစ်ကြို

    U Kyaw Myint

    U Kyaw Myint ဦးကျော်မြင့်

    • Matriculated from Government High School with Distinction in all subjects
    • Former Supreme Court Justice
    • Chair of Tribunal to try ဂဠုန်ဦးစော Galon U Saw
    • Dean of Law
    • Head of Law Firm
    • Dr. Thane Oke Kyaw Myint wrote a series of articles about his father

    U Ba Khin ဦးဘခင်

    U Ba Khin
    • Matriculated from St. Paul’s High School; First in the whole of Burma
    • First native Auditor General
    • Headed four Government Departments
    • ဝိပဿနာ တရားပြ Vipassana Teacher (of Ledi Lineage)
    • His mentor : Saya Thet
    • His mentee : S N Goenka

    1951 – 1965

    • George Chapman (St. Paul’s) — 1951
    • Nyunt Tin ညွန့်တင် (St. Paul’s) — 1952
    • Hla Shwe လှရွှေ (Yegyaw Methodist) — 1953
    • Koon Yin Chu (St. Paul’s) — 1954
    • Lily Hwang (Methodist English) — 1955
    • Ye Myint ရဲမြင့် (St. Peter’s) — 1956
    • Htin Kyaw ထင်ကျော် (Sacred Heart) — 1957
    Dr. Soe Win
    • Soe Win စိုးဝင်း (St. Paul’s) — 1958
    • Frankie Ohn အုန်း (St. Paul’s) — 1959
    • Austin Kyan (English Methodist) — 1960
    • Lina Ong (English Methodist) — 1961
    SPHS63
    • Khin Maung Uခင်မောင်ဦး (St. Paul’s) — 1963
    • Cherry Hlaing လှိုင် (St. John’s Convent) & Lyn Aung Thet လင်းအောင်သက် (English Methodist)— 1964
    Bernard Khaw
    • Bernard Khaw (St. Paul’s) — 1965

    အထွေထွေ General

    First ရတဲ့ ကျောင်းများ Schools

    • St. Paul’s High School — Prewar, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1958, 1959, 1963, 1965
    • English Methodist — 1954, 1960, 1961, 1964
    • ရေကျော် Yegyaw Methodist — 1953
    • St. Peter’s — 1955
    • Sacred Heart — 1956
    • St. John’s Convent — 1964
    • Government High School — Prewar

    ဘာသာရပ် / Profession

    • Architecture – 1954
    • Audit – Prewar
    • Chemical Engineering – 1965
    • Chemistry – 1958, 1965
    • Law – Prewar
    • Medicine / Surgery – 1952, 1955, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964
    • Physics – 1953, 1956, 1959
    • Unspecified – 1951

    1964

    • New Education System ပညာရေးစနစ်သစ်
    • တက္ကသိုလ်ဝင်ခွင့် အတွက် ILA စသုံး

    1965

    • ကျောင်းများ ပြည်သူပိုင်သိမ်း Nationalization of schools on April 1

    Updates

    • Some are GBNF. They include U Kyaw Myint, U Ba Khin, Dr. Nyunt Tin, Dr. Ye Myint & Dr. Lina Ong.
    • SPHS has a Roll of Honor. It is on display at the SPHS Museum.
    Roll of Honor