We were deeply saddened by the passing of our alumnus and friend Song Pu Lim (U Soe Myint). He was born in 1941 and passed away in November 2024. He and his parents and siblings have roots in Taik Kyi Township of Yangon Region.

Song Pu had a towering figure. He and his younger sisters attended Wan Hua schools. The family owned and operated San Pya Cinema, located at the corner of Phone Gyi Street and Anawrahta Road. Song Pu, who graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from Rangoon Arts and Sciences University, worked as an accountant for the theatre. Like other privately-owned businesses, it was seized by General Ne Win's military government in 1964.

Song Pu and his wife and their children were long-time residents of the San Francisco Bay Area. Song Pu worked for the San Francisco Municipal Railway before his retirement. He is survived by his wife and three daughters.

With great sadness, we would like to inform you that our alumnus Dr. Kok Liang Cho passed away on January 7th, 2022. If you have any messages, stories or pictures of Dr. Kok Liang Cho that you want to share with us, you may respond to this email or website.

Funeral Service:
Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Time: 9:00 A.M.–11:00 A.M.
Location: Cypress Lawn Funeral Home, Noble Chapel, 1363 El Camino Real, Colma, CA 94014

The Wan Hua Alumni Association announces with great sorrow the passing of our alumnus Pein Kee Liu (Pin Si) on Sunday, September 5, 2021. The injury he sustained in a fall from his bed took his life. A funeral service will be held from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 19 at Cypress Lawn, 1370 El Camino Real, Colma, California.

Pein Kee Liu (Pin Si) and his late brother Pin Kai were boarders at CACS. Pin Si, a very athletic student, played both basketball and soccer in school. He came to the U.S. in 1971. He married a former doctor Angela Paw (St. Emilie's Convent) in Hong Kong in 1977. Together they have a daughter Alexandria.

Martha Lu and her elder brother Kar Site Lu (盧嘉彩) died of Covid-19 on July 22, 2021 and August 3, 2021, respectively, in their own homes in Yangon due to a lack of hospital care and shortage of oxygen supply.

Martha, whose family came from a small town of Kyonmange near the Irrawaddy River, had attended St. Emilie's Convent as a boarder. She was 77 at the time of her death. She was a successful businesswoman before Covid took her life. When property values started to rise in Yangon, Martha struck a deal with a landowner, demolished the existing building on the lot, and in its place built a new 7-story residential building.

Dear Wan Hua Alumni,

It is with great sorrow that I announce the untimely demise of our beloved friend Joe Chow. He passed away peacefully in San Mateo, California on Saturday, June 29 at 6:00 a.m. He was survived by his wife Jean Chow (a graduate of St. Emilie's Convent) and their two children.

Joe had honorably served as an adviser to Wan Hua Alumni Association since its formation 14 years ago. Although Joe was not a Wan Hua graduate, he had done so much for the association. Along with his dear wife Jean and many other Wan Hua graduates, Joe actively and enthusiastically helped organize many important activities of the association. Those activities included, among others, Chinese New Year banquets, picnics, day trips, and meetings.

Our fellow alumnus Kang Sun Chou (曹庚璇校友) passed away in San Francisco on February 24, 2018. The funeral service was held at Duggan's Serra Mortuary, Daly City on Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at 10:00 a.m.

Teacher Daw Catherine Win, sister of the late Father John Sue and the late Mother Theresa, beloved mother of James Win, passed away on January 14, 2018.

Dr. Regina Ling was honored by the Wan Hua Alumni Association with a poem composed and read by Arthur Wong at the May 3, 2008 meeting.

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Congratulations to Dr. Steven Aung (王超群校友) on winning the Dr. Rogers Prize Groundbreaker Award for Excellence in Complementary and Alternative Medicine!

Dr. Steven Aung, from Pyinmana, was known as Ong Chow Kun (王超群校友) when he attended Catholic Anglo Chinese School with his elder brother Ong Chow Wan (王超元校友) and his younger brother Ong Chow Bing (王超明校友).

Dr. Steven Aung (Ong), is an internationally-known healthcare professional and university professor. His areas of expertise range from western medicine and complementary medicine to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).

He received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012, was inducted into the Order of Canada — the nation's highest civilian honor — in 2006, received the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2003, and was awarded the Alberta Order of Excellence in 2002.

When the socialist government of General Ne Win nationalized privately-owned businesses in Burma in 1964, Dr. Lawrence Wu abandoned his private medical practice and came to the U.S. He became a surgeon and led a busy life. There was a lack of contact between him and his classmates from Wanhua. For half a century, his whereabouts had been a mystery to many people. This aroused the interest of his fellow alumnus, Dr. Tony Myo-Lwin (aka) Ong Chow Wan. Dr. Myo-Lwin consulted all sources of information to find him, but sadly found out that Dr. Wu had met an untimely demise. Dr. Lawrence Wu and his brother Morris Wu were adopted sons of Father Danis.

Lawrence M.H.M. Wu, M.D., age 69, of Edgerton, Ohio, died at 9:03 p.m. on Wednesday, May 31, 2006. Dr. Wu was an attending physician and general surgeon at Community Memorial Hospital in Hicksville, Ohio, and Boerger Clinic in Edgerton, Ohio, from 1974 until his retirement in December of 2005.

His educational career began at Sacred Heart High School and the Catholic Anglo Chinese School. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Rangoon in Burma in 1956 and from the Medical School of Rangoon in 1961. He had a private medical practice in Burma from 1961–63. Dr. Wu then did a surgical internship at Knickerbocker Hospital in New York City in 1964–65 and then did his surgical residency at Knickerbocker Hospital from 1966–1969. He did his emergency medicine residency at St. Mary's Hospital in New York City from 1969–1971.

He held memberships in the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), the American College of International Physicians (ACIP), the American Medical Association and the Ohio State Medical Association. He was inducted into Oxford's Who's Who and The Elite Registry of Extraordinary Professionals in 1993, the Who's Who National Registry in 1997–98, the Marquis Who's Who in America in 1998–99, and received a life membership in the American College of Emergency Physicians in 1997. He also served on the Board of Trustees for Community Memorial Hospital from 1996–2005.

Lawrence M.H.M. Wu was born on May 12, 1937, the son of John and Maria (Wong) Wu. He married Margaret Perez on May 29, 1968, in New York City, and she survives. In addition to his wife, Dr. Wu is survived by one daughter, Wendy L. Wu, of Toledo, Ohio.