"Celebrating 30 Years: UWC's First President Reflects," Las Vegas Daily Optic

“'Prince Charles couldn’t understand what we were going to do about Search and Rescue because all the other United World Colleges did it on the water,' Ted says, laughing. 'I said I didn’t think the Gallinas River was a very good locale for that.' Working with the New Mexico state police, the school soon developed a comprehensive land-based search and rescue team—marking the beginning of UWC-USA’s integral Wilderness Program."