Gallery
Doc's Parents, Ivan Hastings and Florence "Flossie" Johnson in 1934. They met at Spokane's North Central High School and were married in 1937. (Hastings family)
Doc's uncle Perry (back row, left), and father Ivan (left) with Doc and his older brother, Roger, at Harold's home in Spokane, 1943 (Hastings Family)
In 1948 flood left large portions of Pasco, Kennewick, and Richland under water. The approaches to the old Green Bridge on the Pasco side of the Columbia River are still open in the picture taken in early May (Port of Kennewick)
Hanford's B Reactor was the first full-scale plutonium reactor. Completed in thirteen months in 1944 without benefit of blueprints or computers, it changed the history of the Mid-Columbia forever. (US Department of Energy)
Doc (stocking cap, lower left, his brother, Roger (above Doc), and the neighborhood boys play football in an open field near today's Pasco High School on New Year's Day 1951. The Hastings' house was the neighborhood hangout. (Washington State Library/Tri-City Herald/Ralph Smith)
Doc's senior picture, Pasco High School, 1959. (Hastings family)
Doc (left), Ron Grey (right), and Doc's 1946 Chevrolet coupe. Lifelong friends, the two high school classmates took a three-month road trip throughout the United States in 1961. (Hastings family)
Claire's father, Arthur Montmorency, and her mother, Jessie Irene (Burke) Montmorency, on their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary in 1947.
Newlyweds Doc and Claire. They were married in Sacramento on December 16, 1967. (Hastings Family)
Ivan Hastings founded Columbia Basin Paper and Supply Co. in downtown Pasco in 1947. The company is owned by one of Doc's brothers today. (Hastings family)
President Gerald Ford listens as Ronald Reagan stuns the 1976 Republican National Convention with an impromptu speech after losing the nomination to
Ford. Doc became a devoted lifetime fan and philosophical follower of the future president
(National Public Radio)
Campaign sign from Doc's unsuccessful effort to become president of the Washington State Jaycees in 1972. (Hastings family)
Campaign picture taken of Doc and his family for use in his first campaign for the Washington Legislature in 1978. (Hastings family)
Doc’s two daughters, Petrina (left) and Kirsten (right), served as pages during Doc’s eight years in the Washington Legislature. (Hastings family)
Doc and Republican Speaker of the House Bill Polk. Doc was always curious. “Why did you do that, Speak?” (Hastings family)
Doc and his family attend a reception at the Naval Observatory, home of vice president George H. W. Bush, on May 21, 1985. Left to right: daughters Kirsten and Petrina, Doc, Vice President Bush, son Colin, and Claire. (Hastings family)
After Doc beat Democratic co-Speaker John Bagnariol during his annual pool tournament at an Olympia tavern, Doc decided to continue the event when the Republicans gained control of the state legislature. (Hastings family)
Washington governor Jay Inslee and Doc opposed each other twice for Congress. Inslee won in 1992, and Doc won in 1994. (Wikipedia Commons)
Doc (second row, third from left) and the other fifty-three freshman Republican House members in 1994. (Hastings family)
House Speaker Newt Gingrich administers the oath
of office to Doc. Left to right: Kirsten, Petrina, Newt
Gingrich, Claire, Doc, and Colin. (Hastings family)
