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Location: 1500 Ranger Dr.

Meagan Madigan: I’m looking at Logan High School. It is a beautiful brick building on the north side of La Crosse. A school that wasn’t my home school! Because I started high school in 1983, so what they decided to do was because Logan had this pool and Central didn’t have this pool, um, what they did for us is they wanted to bus students from Central to Logan for swimming lessons. I don’t know how I got into these swimming lessons, that part is a blur. Um, somehow, I found myself in this class, which was fine in theory. In practice, it got a little tricky. We had to be at Central to catch the bus to Logan at about seven am. So that was very early, uh, for teenagers. The issue was the fact that, um, after the swimming lessons, it was such a scramble to get back on the bus to Central before school started at Central, that there was no time to dry hair. There was no time for makeup. So, that was very traumatic [laughs] at the time. Uh, my name is Meagan Madigan. I would describe, um, my swimming lesson story at Logan High School as something that was traumatic, but something that I really took from it for a broader, more important lesson is the ability to do things you don’t like at the time, but getting through them, and then being able to look back at them and say, that ended up being good for me, and this is what I learned.