Chartering the New York State School of Agriculture on Long Island -- Laying the foundation -- Albert A. Johnson, 1913-1923 -- Halsey B. Knapp, 1923-1956 -- The World War II era -- The industrial-technical division -- The Charles W. Laffin, Jr. years, 1961-1976 -- Dr. Frank A. Cipriani heralds the future, 1978-2000 -- Transition and transformation -- Into the twentieth-first century