Editing Doc Hastings (section)

==Early life, education, and business career==
Richard Norman Hastings was born in [[Spokane, Washington]] to Ivan and Florene Hastings; he is of part Norwegian ancestry on the maternal side of his family.<ref>[http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2011/05/24/1501974/obit-congressman-hastings-mother.html Deaths of Ivan and Florene Hastings] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314043353/http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2011/05/24/1501974/obit-congressman-hastings-mother.html |date=March 14, 2012 }}</ref><ref>http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/reps/hastingsdoc.htm {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=June 2022}}</ref> He served in the [[United States Army Reserve]] from 1964 to 1969.<ref name="navyleague">{{cite web|title=Veterans in the US House of Representatives 109th Congress|publisher=Navy League|url=http://www.navyleague.org/legislative_affairs/HouseVets.pdf|access-date=2006-12-09|archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20061129201046/http%3A//www%2Enavyleague%2Eorg/legislative_affairs/HouseVets%2Epdf|archive-date=2006-11-29}}</ref>

He studied business administration at [[Columbia Basin College]] and [[Central Washington University|Central Washington State College]], but did not graduate from either. He was named Columbia Basin Alumni of the Year in 2001.<ref>{{cite book|title=Facts & Impacts|year=2001|publisher=Columbia Basin College|page=23|url=http://www.columbiabasin.edu/docs/facts_and_impacts_2001.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100723223126/http://www.columbiabasin.edu/docs/facts_and_impacts_2001.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2010-07-23}}</ref> He returned to Central Washington as [[commencement speech|commencement]] speaker in 2008.<ref>{{cite news|last=McIntyre|first=Jerilyn S.|title=2008 CWU EASTSIDE/WESTSIDE COMMENCEMENTS|url=http://www.cwu.edu/bulletin/pastissues/june08pastissue.html|access-date=8 July 2011|newspaper=CWU University Bulletin|date=June 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315191654/http://www.cwu.edu/bulletin/pastissues/june08pastissue.html|archive-date=15 March 2012}}</ref>

Before being elected to Congress, Hastings ran his family-owned small business, Columbia Basin Paper and Supply. He was an active member of the [[Pasco, Washington|Pasco]] [[Chamber of Commerce]], the Pasco/Kennewick [[Rotary International|Rotary Club]], the Pasco Downtown Development Association, and the Pasco [[United States Junior Chamber|Jaycees]].