The headwear of tomorrow... yesterday

Eight members of the Bess Mechling club of Clear Creek show off hats designed specifically for wear in the far-off Year 2000 at a meeting of the Whitman County Homemakers Council in March of 1962. Pictured, from left, are Mrs. Adolf Harder, Mrs. Stanley Bannister, Mrs. Malcolm Brown, Mrs. Earl Jeffries, Mrs. Richard Hill, Mrs. Arthur Dole, Mrs. Herbert Schmick and Mrs. Harold Stueckle.