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'''Wiley Wilson Hilburn, Jr.''' (February 20, 1938 – January 16, 2014), was a [[journalist]] in his native [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]], [[Louisiana]], whose communications career began in the middle 1950s when he was a student at Ruston High School and then [[Louisiana Tech University]]. In 1968, at the age of thirty, Hilburn returned to Louisiana Tech to chair the Journalism Department and serve as director of the college news bureau. Even while instructing budding journalists for some four decades, he continued to write a popular weekly column carried by Gannett in both ''The Shreveport Times'' and ''The Monroe News-Star.'' On September 1, 2009, Hilburn retired from the university position after forty-one years.<ref name=latech>Bill Campbell, "Region's dean of journalism leaves editor's mark on generations, ''The Monroe News-Star,'' August 2, 2009.</ref>
'''Wiley Wilson Hilburn, Jr.''' (February 20, 1938 – January 16, 2014), was a [[journalist]] in his native [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]], [[Louisiana]], whose communications career began in the middle 1950s when he was a student at Ruston High School and then [[Louisiana Tech University]]. In 1968, at the age of thirty, Hilburn returned to Louisiana Tech to chair the Journalism Department and serve as director of the college news bureau. Even while instructing budding journalists for some four decades, he continued to write a popular weekly column carried by Gannett in both ''The Shreveport Times'' and ''The Monroe News-Star.'' On September 1, 2009, Hilburn retired from the university position after forty-one years.<ref name=latech>Bill Campbell, "Region's dean of journalism leaves editor's mark on generations, ''The Monroe News-Star,'' August 2, 2009.</ref>
==Background==
==Background==
Hilburn was born to Wiley Hilburn, Sr. (1913–2003), the son of a cotton gin operator, Ewing Hilburn, originally from Haynesville in northern Claiborne Parish. Hilburn, Sr., managed his father's three cotton gins in the Ruston region and then branched into dry cleaning. He offered the first cold storage for furs in Ruston.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.genealogybuff.com/la/la-lincoln-obits14.htm|title=Wiley Wilson Hilburn, Sr.|publisher=genealogybuff.com|accessdate=January 18, 2014}}</ref> Hilburn's mother, the former Marie Trussell (1912–2007), was an educator who was once the principal of a one-room school in her native Antioch community near Ruston. Wiley Hilburn himself attended the A. E. Phillips Laboratory School on the Louisiana Tech campus.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20070212/NEWS0804/702120306/Hilburn-He-affirmed-not-spoiled|title=Hilburn: He was affirmed, but not spoiled|date=February 11, 2007|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=January 18, 2014}}</ref>
Hilburn was born to Wiley Hilburn, Sr. (1913–2003), the son of a cotton gin operator, Ewing Hilburn, originally from Haynesville in northern Claiborne Parish. Hilburn, Sr., managed his father's three cotton gins in the Ruston region and then branched into dry cleaning. He offered the first cold storage for furs in Ruston.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.genealogybuff.com/la/la-lincoln-obits14.htm|title=Wiley Wilson Hilburn, Sr.|publisher=genealogybuff.com|accessdate=January 18, 2014}}</ref> Hilburn's mother, the former Marie Trussell (1912–2007), was an educator who was once the principal of a one-room school in her native Antioch community near Ruston. Wiley Hilburn himself attended the A. E. Phillips Laboratory School on the Louisiana Tech campus.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20070212/NEWS0804/702120306/Hilburn-He-affirmed-not-spoiled|title=Hilburn: He was affirmed, but not spoiled|date=February 11, 2007|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=January 18, 2014}}</ref>
Six weeks earlier, Hilburn had penned a column critical of what he saw as the attitude of certainty in the personality of President [[George W. Bush]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071001/NEWS0804/710010320/1007/OPINION|title=Wiley Hilburn: In Bush's world, optimism rules|date=October 1, 2007|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=January 18, 2014}}</ref>
Six weeks earlier, Hilburn had penned a column critical of what he saw as the attitude of certainty in the personality of President [[George W. Bush]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071001/NEWS0804/710010320/1007/OPINION|title=Wiley Hilburn: In Bush's world, optimism rules|date=October 1, 2007|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=January 18, 2014}}</ref>
==Books==
==Books==
In 2001, Hilburn was inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield.<ref name=hilburnobit/> Other journalists inducted into the Hall of Fame have included ''The Shreveport Times'' political cartoonist Pap Dean, Iris Kelso of ''The New Orleans Times-Picayune,'' the late newspaper chain owner Sam Hanna, Sr., [[Bill Lynch]], the Baton Rouge bureau chief of ''The Times-Picayune,'' and [[John LaPlante, Jr.]], of ''The Baton Rouge Advocate.''
In 2001, Hilburn was inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield.<ref name=hilburnobit/> Other journalists inducted into the Hall of Fame have included ''The Shreveport Times'' political cartoonist Pap Dean, Iris Kelso of ''The New Orleans Times-Picayune,'' the late newspaper chain owner Sam Hanna, Sr., [[Bill Lynch]], the Baton Rouge bureau chief of ''The Times-Picayune,'' and [[John LaPlante, Jr.]], of ''The Baton Rouge Advocate.''
==Family life==
==Family life==
Hilburn's brother, Chester William "Chet" Hilburn (born 1945), also a Louisiana Tech graduate, is a retired newspaperman, having worked at ''The Houston Chronicle,'' ''The Alexandria Town Talk, ''The Camden ([[Arkansas]]) News,'' and the defunct ''[[Shreveport Journal]].'' In 2012, Chet Hilburn authored ''The Mystique of Tiger Stadium: 25 Greatest Games: The Ascension of LSU Football''. In the foreword to the book, Chet Hilburn credits his brother for encouraging his interest in LSU football.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amazon.com/The-Mystique-Tiger-Stadium-Ascension/dp/1449752691|author=Chester William "Chet" Hilburn|title=The Mystique of Tiger Stadium: 25 Greatest Games: The Ascension of LSU Football|date=2012|publisher=WestBowPress: ISBN 1449752691|accessdate=September 10, 2012}}</ref>
Hilburn's brother, Chester William "Chet" Hilburn (born 1945), also a Louisiana Tech graduate, is a retired newspaperman, having worked at ''The Houston Chronicle,'' ''The Alexandria Town Talk, ''The Camden ([[Arkansas]]) News,'' and the defunct ''[[Shreveport Journal]].'' In 2012, Chet Hilburn authored ''The Mystique of Tiger Stadium: 25 Greatest Games: The Ascension of LSU Football''. In the foreword to the book, Chet Hilburn credits his brother for encouraging his interest in LSU football.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amazon.com/The-Mystique-Tiger-Stadium-Ascension/dp/1449752691|author=Chester William "Chet" Hilburn|title=The Mystique of Tiger Stadium: 25 Greatest Games: The Ascension of LSU Football|date=2012|publisher=WestBowPress: ISBN 1449752691|accessdate=September 10, 2012}}</ref>
==The last years==
==The last years==