by Hla Min

Update : July 2025

U Win Thein (M67)

Highlights

• 1967 Mechanical Engineering ဘွဲ့ရ
• စစ်တောင်းစက္ကူစက် Sittaung Paper Mill
• PPIC
• ရသာချို (ကိုယ်ပိုင်ကုမ္ပဏီ) Ya Tha Cho (Private company)!
• ဒု ဥက္ကဌ ၊ VP, RIT Mechanical Engineering Association
• Founder စက်မှုသတင်းစဉ် Set Hmu Thadin Zin
• Co-founder Mechanical Engineering Magazine မဂ္ဂဇင်း
• Organizer, Ah Nu Pyinnya Ah Thinn အနုပညာအသင်း

Memories

• During our RIT days, he was a super energetic organizer and a prime mover. As a member of the Gold Flake Cigarette Family, he inherited business acumen and organization skills.
• Co-founded “Set Hmu Thadizin Zin စက်မှုသတင်းစဉ်”. Typing and drawing on stencil paper were not easy, but he spent time crafting the stencils into the revered weekly Thadinzin.
• Vice President, RIT Mechanical Engg Association. Co-founded Magazine for the Association.
• Suggested to name the main gate as “U Lu Paw Gate ဦးလူပေါ ဂိတ်” after the famous cartoon character from “Burma Star”.
• Organized mini-festivals for freshers and junior students.
• Graduated in 1967 with Mechanical Engineering
• Worked for Sittaung Paper Mill and PCIC.
• Founded “Ya Tha Cho”.
• Did not live long enough to see SPZPs, SDYF, RITAA, HMEE & Shwe YaDu.

Remembering U Win Thein

The following remembered his contributions well.

• U Tin Maung Aye (M69) : Member of RIT Ah Nu Pyinnya Troupe, Member of RIT Annual Magazine & Co-worker at PCIC. He gave us two photos of U Win Thein (one at RIT, one at PCIC)
• U Aung Min (M69) : Chair of 69er Health Care Fund & Organizer for the Class of 69
• U Thein Swe (EP69, GBNF) :
  3rd BE Luyechun & Organizer of EE69er Gatherings
• U Maung Maung Kyi (Dip Ing, Wales, GBNF) : Co-worker at Sittaung Paper Mill & PCIC
• Sayama Daw Tin Tin Myint (Emma, ChE70, Singapore) : Co-founder of Dana Sri Lanka,
  Minthamee, Organizer of Singapore Pon Chan Chan Group
• U Wynn Htain Oo (M72) : Super Fund raiser for RIT-related activities including SPZPs, YTU Library Modernization Project; Patron of RITAA

• U Win Thein Zaw (Wai Lu) wrote : နာမည်ချင်းတူ၍သိခြင်း။ ကျောင်းသားချင်း Tuition ပေးခြင်း။ စစ်တောင်းစက္ကူစက်အုပ်စုဖြစ်ခြင်း။ မန္တလေးကုန်စည်ဒိုင်သို့ဆရာဦးလင်းနှင့်ရောက်လာခြင်း။ နေမကောင်းစဉ်ရန်ကုန်အိမ်တွင်တွေ့လိုက်ရခြင်းများကိုသတိရလျက်ပါကိုဝင်းသိန်းရေ

Updates

• Mechanical Newsletters for 1968-69 to 1973-74 were scanned and archived in a CD by U Kyaw Thein and Daw Than Than Mu (1974 batch)

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