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Linda Wilke
Portrait of a Person-Linda Wilke
Mrs. Wilke or Linda Wilke is the band director at Baltic School District. I have had her as my band teacher since fifth grade and I am in ninth grade right now. I don’t know her that well even though I have been close to her for a while. We are pretty good friends, but I am trying to get to know her more than just what I have learned in class.
She was born on January 25 in Peoria, ILL. She also grew up there for a few years, then she moved to Minnesota. She went to middle school in Robinsdale, MN. Then she went to high school at Osseo, MN. For college, she made her way to St. Cloud State University which is located in one of the most northern part of Minnesota.
She has had a job as a daycare teacher, which she

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