Alumni Magazine - Fall 2008 - (Page 28) The beauty of Harbour Town remains tinged with a painful aura. There is an emptiness, a void in paradise. Harbour Town is a more somber setting since the Calverts disappeared. A spyglass, right, looks out over the bay, one of many places investigators have searched for the Calverts’ remains. “These businesses in certain ways defined them,” he says. “They loved Hilton Head. They were living their dream. To carry on the businesses, I think it’s the right thing to do.” He’s also been raising money for a reward fund, hoping to encourage anyone who might know the Calverts’ fate to step forward. Most of Harbour Town has helped with the effort, making donations and putting on fundraising events, like a recent sunset cruise. “As family and friends, it’s given us something to do to help,” White says. ‘We Live in Anguish’ avid and Liz grew up in Atlanta before she went to Converse College in South Carolina. He says she was a self-made success, having put herself through law school and worked her way up at UPS. “Everything she achieved was because she was smart and thoughtful and driven,” he says. He refers to John as “meticulous and also very smart.” Talking about the two, White switches between tenses, interchanging “is” and “was,” “are” and “were.” He falls quiet and seconds pass. Then more. Finally, his pain spills out in a rush. “I don’t know how to say what I want to say,” he says. “We all miss John and Liz. We dearly want them back. We don’t understand what’s happened. We live in anguish and pain every day of the unknown. We want to figure out where they are and what has happened. If there’s any scenario where they can come back to us safe and sound, that’s what we would pray to have happen. “If anyone can help us with that, please, please, please call the sheriff’s office. “John and Liz were good people. They created a nice community of folks. People loved them and they loved playing in that community. It’s just a shame someone or something has taken them away from their life. “It’s just hard to understand what’s happened.” A D Empty Places s the sun lowers, sending shimmers of color across the bay toward Harbour Town, an elderly tourist smiles. “It’s beautiful, isn’t it?” he says to no one in particular. Among the largely transitive community of Harbour Town, the disappearance of John and Elizabeth Calvert already is an old story, faded to background whispers of a late summer vacation. But for those who knew the Calverts, worked with them and loved them, the beauty of Harbour Town remains tinged with a painful aura. There is an emptiness, a void in paradise. They look around the resort — to the empty seats at the end of the Crazy Crab bar, to the Yacht Basin office, to the oak tree where John proposed, to the deck of the Yellow Jacket — and Liz and John are nowhere to be seen. And they wonder, where have you gone? GT 28 Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine • Fall 2008
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