Meet Jerimiah Wharton and Kaitlyn Phillips, shown here with Jamie Johnson, the Eastern Shore Public Library system’s Circulation Manager. Both are students at Nandua High School, and they joined the Parksley Library staff in the summer of 2025 as the first Joyce Brown Milliner interns. Jerimiah and Kaitlyn had a wonderful summer, and we enjoyed getting to know them.

This fall, the Milliner Endowment is supporting Ethan Ross, an Eastern Shore native who is working toward a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Maine. Ethan works with archivist Luke Kelly on the myriad projects underway at the Heritage Center.

The Eastern Shore Public Library Foundation will always be able to support high school and college interns each year, thanks to the Joyce Brown Milliner Endowment.

Thanks to the farsighted generosity of Joyce Brown Milliner, a beloved English teacher here on the Shore, the Eastern Shore Public Library Foundation is able to draw on the Joyce Brown Milliner Endowment to support an internship program for high school and college students. The Foundation’s endowments – invested funds that provide long-term support for library activities – are managed by the Hampton Roads Community Foundation. We feel sure that Joyce Brown Milliner would be pleased to know that her gift is being used to support the librarians of the future.