John Kascenska

JOHN KASCENSKA, Republican, of East Burke, Caledonia County, was born in Torrington, Connecticut. John’s family moved to Vermont in 1969, and he has lived in the Northeast Kingdom since 1992. John is a graduate of Poultney High School and Lyndon State College, and he holds graduate degrees from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and North Carolina State University. John worked in higher education for 32 years, which included 25 years in the Vermont State College’s System as a faculty member and an academic dean. He has served his community as president of the Burke Area Chamber of Commerce, trustee of the Burke Mountain Club, president of Lyndon Rescue, Inc., corporator and trustee of the Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital, and honorary member of the Northern Vermont University – Lyndon Alumni Council. He is the founder and owner of an outdoor business in East Burke, Vermont, that provides nationally recognized first aid-level certification programs in urban and wilderness medicine and avalanche education safety programs in Vermont and New Hampshire.