Moments--Mrs. Aye Hlaing, 108, died peacefully in her sleep at her home in Rangoon. U Aye Hlaing (Dr. Aye Hlaing)

was one of my renowned Economics professors.

He founded the Institute of Economics.

He was successively Head of the Department of Economics

Professor of Economics.

Rector of the Institute of Economics

and then Chairman of the Union Bank of Burma.

I last saw him before I left for a Fulbright Fellowship in the early 1980s.

Mrs. Aye Hlaing was a graduate of Judson College and she and my mother were classmates, but I didn't know that until about 10 years ago.

They studied under JR Andrus.

You can see many tribute essays to several Burmese economists in Let it Fly with the Flowers, a collection which I edited.

https://www.amazon.com/Let-Fly-Flowers-Institute-Economics/dp/1514616378