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Central – Go Vote!
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Central Speaks reports exclusively on news in and about Central. Next Tuesday the entire nation goes to the polls, but this election is very much about Central. The nation will name its next President, and that will be Central’s President as well….so Go Vote! Baton Rouge will name its next Mayor, and while he will not be Central’s mayor, he will also be the President of East Baton Rouge Parish, and Central is affected by Parish-wide decisions…so Go Vote! There will be judges and a US Representative elected to serve Central and Amendments passed or defeated that will affect all of us in Central…so Go Vote!
Florence Treen was born in 1898. In 1917, then 19 year old Florence, a nursing student at Charity Nursing School in New Orleans, joined in the march to give women the right to vote. The movement, called “Woman’s Suffrage”, marched, picketed and protested for a decade to give Women that right. Many women across the country were ticketed, arrested and even jailed as a result of their marches for Woman’s Suffrage. In 1920 the 19th Amendment finally gave women the right to vote.
The Central roots of this story: In 1922 Ms. Treen and her new Husband, Brady Beauregard Forman, bought 100 acres on the Comite River in what is now the City of Central. Florence was a Registered Nurse and worked at the Tuberculosis Hospital in Greenwell Springs and Brady worked at Standard Oil (Exxon). They raised a family, farmed the land and lived on the Central farm to the ages of 86 and 91. Florence’s nephew, David Treen, became the Governor of Louisiana in 1980. Brady and Florence Forman are also the grandparents of Central Speaks founder Dave Freneaux and the great-grandparents of Editor Beth Fussell.
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