The late Jenhatsu Chinen of Helemano received a posthumous degree at spring commencement from UH Manoa, honoring ROTC cadets killed in action during WWII with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Jenhatsu was a member of the Varsity Victory Volunteers who dug ditches, built roads and military installations, strung barbed wire and broke rocks at Kolekole quarry ... He's a radio personality and host of TV's Hot Hawaiian Nights, but Shannon Scott just can't stop thinking up new things to do. The Mililani husband and father of two has a new children's book out from Beachhouse Publishing called Maka the Magic Music Maker. It includes an audio CD, with Shannon performing, of course ... Mililani's Tammy Nakamatsu is the new program coordinator for Lanakila Multi-Purpose Senior Center, moving from another nonprofit, Susannah Wesley Community Center ... University Health Alliance has promoted Mililani's Wade Orimoto to data analyst manager in its health care services department ... Mililani's Alana Ann Burgess has graduated from Army basic training at Fort Jackson, S.C. ... Alan Nakamura, whose Mililani home is transformed in a ghoulish way every Halloween (see Highlights), hints that he may try to set up a "graveyard wedding" as well, if the weather holds out ... Award-winning Mililani High social studies teacher and department head Amy Perruso is among five finalists up for the National History Teacher of the Year, a $10,000 prize to be announced this fall ... Modesto Cordero, deacon at St. John Apostle and Evangelist Church in Mililani, is directing November's Song, a play about Mother (and new saint) Marianne Cope. The play will be performed by his church's Spirit-Led Drama Club Nov. 16 at Sacred Hearts Academy (585-3342) ... Here are some more timely tips from Wahiawa ophthalmologist Christopher Tortora of Hawaiian Eye Center on keikis and computers: Make sure monitor screen is 20 to 26 inches away from child's eyes, viewed from above at a 15-degree angle; adjust equipment to child's size; use screen covers and lower lights to reduce glare; have them stop every 20 minutes and focus on a distant object for 20 seconds ... Kristopher Ornellas (Mililani 2010) has graduated from Air Force basic training at Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas