In his eighties, Mr. Teszler, having retired from the textile industry, adopted Wofford College, auditing courses every semester, and because he had a tendency to kiss anything that moved, becoming affectionately known as "Opi" -- which is Magyar for grandfather -- by all and sundry. Before I got there, the library of the college had been named for Mr. Teszler, and after I arrived in 1993, the faculty decided to honor itself by naming Mr. Teszler Professor of the College -- partly because at that point he had already taken all of the courses in the catalog, but mainly because he was so conspicuously wiser than any one of us.
U svojim osamdesetima gospodin je Teszler, nakon što je otišao u mirovinu iz tekstilne industrije, upisao fakultet Wofford – slušajući predmete svaki semestar. I s obzirom da je imao tendenciju ljubiti sve što se micalo, postao je poznat kao Opi – što na mađarskom znači djed – po svemu raznovrsan. Kada sam došao tamo, knjižnica fakulteta nazvana je po gospodinu Teszleru, a kada sam se vratio 1993., fakultet se odlučio počastiti imenujući gospodina Teszlera fakultetskim profesorom. Djelomično zato što je u tom trenu već odslušao sve smjerove iz kataloga, ali uglavnom zato što je bio toliko evidentno pametniji od bilo koga od nas.