When Culpeper businessman Joe Daniel was in high school, he was a typical boy of the 1950s, he says. Consumed by sports, cars and girls, he spent a semester at East Carolina University, “pretending to go to college,” he says. … In the fall of 1962, the University of Virginia opened an extension service in his hometown of Madison, just 5 miles from his house. Working at a nearby gas station, he scraped together just enough money to attend. “I didn’t mess it up this time,” he says. Instead, he became an ‘A’ student, eventually transferring to UVA’s main campus, where he earned a degree from the ...