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SR-06-25-2013-3DID Aam City Council Report City of Santa IMonled City Council Meeting: June 25, 2013 Agenda Item: 3 -D To: Mayor and City Council From: Karen Ginsberg, Director, Community and Cultural Services Subject: Commemorate the Life and Achievements of World- Famous Tennis Pioneer Gussy Moran Recommended Action Staff recommends that the City Council commemorate Santa Monica native and world - famous tennis pioneer Gussy Moran by naming the Stadium Court at Reed Park, Gussy Moran Stadium Court, and install didactic signage on the wall adjacent to the Stadium Court that would provide a history of her achievements. Executive Summary At the =eC _ia_r_y_12,_2_01_3_ City Council meeting, Council directed staff to explore ways in which Santa Monica native and world- famous tennis pioneer Gussy Moran could be commemorated at a Santa Monica public tennis facility. Ms. Moran passed away in January, 2013. Staff reviewed published articles documenting her accomplishments, spoke with tennis enthusiasts and professionals within the community who knew her, conducted a site visit, and sought a recommendation from the City's Recreation and Parks Commission. The recommendation from the Recreation and Parks Commission and outreach to the tennis professionals within the community showed support for naming the Stadium Court at the Reed Park tennis facility the Gussy Moran Stadium Court. Staff recommends that in addition to adding the court signage, a permanent didactic sign be installed on the wall adjacent to the Stadium Court that would provide biographical information about Ms. Moran. Background The City Council adopted a policy for naming City -owned land, buildings and facilities on _July__ ?,_ 200`? which established formal guidelines and a procedure for considering appropriate names (Attachment A). 11 Gussy Moran, who passed away in January 2013, was born in Santa Monica on September 8, 1923 in a Victorian house on Ocean Avenue overlooking the Pacific Ocean. She learned to play tennis at the age of 11, playing at Santa Monica High School and sometimes was invited to play at Charlie Chaplin's house with Greta Garbo and Olivia de Havilland. She joined the amateur tennis circuit in 1947 when she was in her 20's and was ranked as high as No. 4 in the world. In 1949, Ms. Moran played in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon and made a fashion splash by wearing a short skirt that revealed lace panties for which she was remembered throughout her life and led to her nickname "gorgeous Gussy ". In 1950 she retired from amateur tennis and signed a one -year contract to play on a professional tour managed by Bobby Riggs. She went on to work as a sports director in radio and television as well as continued to compete in tournaments into her early 40's. Upon her death, it was reported that her friends gathered and spread her ashes into Santa Monica Bay. (Attachments B -D) At the f-ebwaiv 12,_ 2013 Council meeting, Council directed staff to return with a recommendation for a memorial to commemorate the life and achievements of Gussy Moran. In response, staff spoke with members of the tennis community including Marguerite Jorgensen, Santa Monica Tennis Club President; Bill Nissley, City contracted tennis tournament director; Lou Bock, long time City tennis reservation employee; and Jack Neworth, a tennis writer and friend of Ms. Moran's. Staff also conducted a site visit at the Reed Park tennis courts where Ms. Moran had played and visited later in her life. Discussion Guidelines established in 2002 direct the Council and its advisory bodies to consider commemorating persons who have "served the City, in an exceptional manner" and /or "served the State of Nation in an exceptional manner and who have an association with the City." The staff report suggested that recognition "may be given by installation of a plaque or appropriate signage, installation of a marker or artwork, or other means 2 appropriate to the setting." During conversations with members of the tennis community, staff was informed that Ms. Moran regularly played tennis as a youth at the Reed Park courts as well as later in her life. When she was no longer able to play, she would watch others play from the stadium bleachers located adjacent to Stadium Court. Based on this information, staff recommends that signage be installed naming the Stadium Court, Gussy Moran Stadium Court. Signs to match the type and design of existing park signage would be installed on fencing at the two entrances to the court: 1) next to the tennis reservation check -in window on the northeast side of the court; and 2) at the southeast gate entrance. Staff also recommends that a permanent didactic sign be installed on the wall adjacent to the bleachers on the southwest side of Stadium Court. The didactic sign would include biographical information summarizing her life achievements and could incorporate a photo of Ms. Moran. (Attachment E) Commission Action At the April 18, 2013 Recreation and Parks Commission meeting, the Commission unanimously adopted a motion to recommend to the City Council that Santa Monica native and world- famous tennis pioneer Gussy Moran be commemorated by naming the Stadium Court at Reed Park tennis facility, Gussy Moran Stadium Court, and by installing a permanent wall plaque in her honor at the tennis facility. They also suggested that photos of Ms. Moran be featured in a display case at the tennis facility. Next Steps Pending Council approval and following fabrication of signage, a dedication will be planned at a tennis event to be scheduled in late summer or early fall, 2013. 3 Financial Impacts &Budget .fictions The estimated cost for the new signs is $1,200. Funds for the signs are available in the FY 2012 -13 Capital Improvement Program budget in account 0536009.589000. Prepared by: Wendy Pietrzak, Acting Community Use Administrator Approved: Karen Ginsberg Director, Community & Ltu)al Services Attachments: Forwarded to Council: Rod Gould City Manager A. Resolution 9779 — Naming Public Facilities B. Los Angeles Times Article — January 17, 2013 C, New York Times Article — January 18, 2013 D. Los Angeles Times Article — January 19, 2013 E. Photos of Reed Park Tennis Facility Courts and Sign Placement S Attachment A F: \cmanager \staff rptslrmo naming public facllltles,doc City Council Meeting: July 9, 2002 Santa Monica, CA RESOLUTION NUMBER_ 7h9 (CC5) (City Council Series) A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA REGARDING NAMING PU13LIC FACILITIES WHEREAS, the Santa Monica City Council wishes to establish a policy regarding naming of City owned land, buildings and facilities, NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. The City Council hereby astablishos the following procedures for the naming of City -owned land, bulldings and facilities: A. Requests for naming City -owned land, buildings and facilities may be submitted by the public, City staff, and related advisory bodies such as the Recreations and Parks Commission, Library Board and Landmarks Commission. The requests may be to the City Clerk in writing, accompanied by a justification for the recommended name(s). All requests will be referred to the Department having jurisdiction over the land, building or facility and to the appropriate Boards(s) or Commission($) for dallboration. Staff and related advisory bodies will evaluate the recommended name within six months following receipt of a request. 1 8. Upon completion of doliborattons at a public hearing, the staff and advisory body will forward a recommendation to the City Council, C, The City Council will make Its determination as to the naming or renaming of Cily -owned land, buildings and facilities at a regularly scheduled meeting of the Council at which staff, ropresentallves of advisory bodies and civic organizations and the general public may offer testimony. D. In naming public land and buildings, the City Council and Its advisory bodies shalt consider the following: © Incorporating "Santa Monica" in the name where It is Important for civic or other reasons for a building or facility to be Identified with tho City; 0 Recognizing geographic, topographic or historical features or events associated with Santa Monica; 0 Commemorating persons who have served the City In an exceptional manner; 0 Commemorating persons who have served the State, Nation or World in an exceptional manner and who have an association with the City; 0 Commemorating persons who have served the State, Nation or World In an exceptional or distinguished manner where the contribution is of such major significance that a local association pales in Importance; 0 Commemorating individuals or organizations who have made Important donations of land, funds or rnaterials, equipment and/or facilities; Avoiding recognition of those whose contribution has been appropriately recognized In other City venues or by other means. R. The City Council will not namo any buildings, land or faollities after current offlce holders. SECTION Z The City Clock shall certify to the adoption of this Resolution, and thenceforth and thereafter the same shall be In full force and affect. APPROVED AS TO FORM: MAR 31 IA JO 5 MO 1E City Attorney Adopted and appfoved this 9u' day of July, 200: 1, Maria M, Stewaii, City Clerk of the City of Santa Monica, (to hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution No. 9779 (GCS) was duty adopted at a meeting of the Santa Monica City Council held on the 911' of July, 2002, by the following vote: Ayes: Council members: Holbrook, O'Connor, Bloom, Genser Noes: Council members: Mayor Pro Tom McKeown, Mayor relnoteln Abstain: Council members: None Absent: Council members: Katz TTEST Marla Sterwart, Clty CI rk Attachment B Gussy Moran dies at 899 tennis player caused Wimbledon uproar with short skirt Her tennis talents took her to a No. 4 ranking among U.S. women and into the seventh - seeded spot in the 1949 tournament. She left the amateur circuit to turn pro in 1951 and travel with a touring group. Gussy Moran races across Centre Court to make a return shot at Wimbledon,.. (Associated Press) January try, 2013, Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times Gussy Moran, who gained both international fame and notoriety by wearing a short skirt and lace panties in the 1949 Wimbledon tennis tournament and who lived a life of celebrity for many years, died Wednesday night in her small Los Angeles apartment in the shadow of Paramount Studios. She was 89. According to a friend, Lovey Jurgens, Moran suffered from colon cancer and had been home about a week after an 11 -day stay at Good Samaritan Hospital. Moran was born Sept. 8, 1923, and grew up in a Victorian home on Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica that still stands. Its address is 1323, and it was built by her grandfather in 1870. Her father, Henry, was a sound technician at Universal Studios and her mother, Emma, a homemaker. She started playing tennis at Santa Monica High School and always said she loved living in the big old house because she could "run out the door and across the street to the ocean." Among those encouraging her to pursue her tennis career was movie star Charlie Chaplin, who also got her auditions for bit parts in movies. She landed a small role in the 1952 movie "Pat and Mike," with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Her tennis talents took her to a No. 4 ranking among U.S. women and into the seventh - seeded spot in the 1949 Wimbledon tournament. Moran, whose given name was Gertrude and always preferred to be known as "Gussy" not "Gussie," wanted to make a fashion splash at Wimbledon that would be in line with her outgoing personality and showcase her pretty legs. She asked one of the official hosts, Ted Tinting, to help her design an outfit. Tinting did, and an uproar ensued. The skirt Fvas vvell shorter than the Wimbledon norm of the day and allowed her to show off lace panties. The photographers scrambled for low -angle shots and Wimbledon officials fumed and called her, and her outfit, a disgrace. She lost in her first -round singles match, but made it to the final in doubles before losing. She also reached the semifinals of the U.S. Open in singles and won other national titles in singles and doubles. She ended up being overwhelmed by the attention and may have never reached her potential because of the Wimbledon incident. She later told friends that, when she got home, she took the lace panties and dumped them in a garbage can. In the days when Moran played, tennis was mostly an amateur sport. Moran left the amateur circuit to turn pro in 1951 and travel with a touring group organized by Bobby Riggs. That turned out to be a financial, athletic and personal disaster. She never got the money she was promised, she lost most of her matches to nightly opponent Pauline Betz, and her future was left up in the air. She was a television sportscaster in Los Angeles for a while before moving to New York to do the same. During one stint in the mid- 195os, she did pregame and postgame feature shows on the Dodgers, where she met and dated sportswriter Roger Rahn, eventual author of the classic baseball. book "The Boys of Summer." "She knew about as much about baseball as I knew about polo," Kahn said. "But she was a delightful person, just great fun to be with." She never quite escaped the pretty -legs and lace- panties imagery, nor did she always run from it. From the moment she took the court in that infamous moment at Wimbledon in 1949, she event from being Gussy Moran to "Gorgeous Gussy" Moran. The name stuck for the rest of her life and the fame lasted a long time. She had a ship, a play and a racehorse named after her. Kahn said Moran used to play volleyball with him during spring training in Vero Beach, Fla., "and I'd look up and there would be 20 baseball players watching." Kahn said that the Dodgers' director of publicity at that time, Red Patterson, once asked her to leave training camp because she was "a distraction." Tennis legend Jack Kramer, who traveled on the pro tour with her, later called her "the Anna Kournikova of her time." She married three times but had no children. The first marriage, at age 1g, to a pilot, was annulled. Her second, to trucking executive Eddie Hand, ended in divorce. Her third, to Los Angeles -area lawyer Frank "Bing' Simpson, also ended in divorce. For one of her engagements, Chaplin held a party at his mansion. She eventually moved back into the home on Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, but couldn't afford to keep it after her mother died. In 1986, after battling tax liens and turning down air offer of $1, million for the house, she was evicted. She moved into a small apartment off Melrose and, with a small amount of Social Security and help from friends — including monthly checks from an anon}anous person in Australia often wired to the Los Angeles Tennis Club — stayed there until her death. One of her final jobs was working in the gift shop at the L.A. Zoo bi11.dtuyre@1atirnes.com Attachment C New York Times Gussie Moran, a Tennis Star Who Wore a Daring Wimbledon Outfit, Dies at Sg C o il.l a, IF w 1011,1 r GuSSIe M01an gives the CfOWCI a glimpse of her much publicized lace panties as she races across court to make a return shot In a match at Wimbledon in 1949. By II HA VJILIJAIAS G'ublished: January HA, 2013 Gussie Moran, who as a ranked American tennis player in 1949 caused an international stir and gained worldwide fame for competing at Wimbledon while wearing a short skirt and lace - trimmed underwear, died on Wednesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 89. She had recently been hospitalized with cancer, Jack Neworth, a tennis writer and friend, said. Moran's darin outfit worn in a bastion of English propriety won her more renown than her tennis playing, though she was ranked as high as No. 4 in the United States, won the United 1 States women's indoor championship in 1949 and reached the quarterfinals that year at Wimbledon. By the end of her life she had come to know hardship — boumcing from job to job, living in near squalor, telling of abortions and rape. At her death she lived in a small apartment. But for a time, more than half a cent Lay ago, she was a household name around the world. A racehorse, an airplane and a sauce were named after her. Moran, who was 25 at the time, arrived in London for Wimbledon in Jtme 1949 with a new outfit in mind, having already reached out to the Biftish desr Teddy I hLJiug to create one. "I wrote him a letter prior to Wimbledon, asking him if he would design me something with one sleeve one color, the other sleeve another color and the shirt another color," Moran told The Orlando Sentinel in 1988. "He wrote back, `Have you lost your mind ?' " Tiding, a former tennis player and for many years the official Wimbledon host, told The Associated Press during the tournament that Moran had asked him to make her "look more feminine." Sticking to Wimbledon's all-white dress code, Tinling came up'V\ ith a white silk sun -top jersey with a tight waist and bodice and a short skirt that boldly bared her knees. Underneath were matching white silk jersey panties trimined with two inches of open lace. Moran displayed her outfit during a pretournament tea party at the Hurlingham Club, instantly inspiring a nickname. "Gorgeous Gussie's Lace - Fringed Panties No. 1 Attraction on Wimbledon's Courts," a headline in The New York Times declared after the tea party previewv By the time of her opening match, photographers were jostling for position, many lying flat, the better to catch the most risque angle as she served the ball. They were not disappointed. "The fringed panties are very much in evidence when Gussie races across the court or leaps for a high shot," The A.P. reported. Moran, who was noted for a powerful forehand, won her match, defeating Bea Walter of Britain, but it was her underwear that became front -page news and a subject of debate in the British Parliament. The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, the home of Wimbledon, accused Moran of "bringing vulgarity and sin into tennis." Although Moran did not wear the lace panties for the rest of the tournament, the sensation they caused made her one of the biggest attractions in women's tennis. She made a cameo appearance in the 1952 sports movie "Pat and M ike" with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. The newspapers reported on her romantic life. And her underviear, soon christened "Gutssie panties," started a trend. Women began taking to the court in lace panties, T -shirts and plunging necklines. "Gussie was the Anna Kournikova of her time," the former tennis champion J_aclz Iramer told The Los Angeles Times in 2002, referring to the Russian star and sometime model. "Gussie was a beautiful woman with a beautiful body. If Gussie had played in the era of television, no telling what would have happened. Because, besides everything else, Gussie could play." But there were negative repercussions, too. Wimbledon banned short dresses from the tournament. By 1950 there were grumblings among the tennis elite that the attention Moran had received was umnerited, in light of her being ranked seventh among American women at the time. In 1951 the United States Lawn Tennis Association banned lace panties and low - neckline attire from its tournament in Forest Hills, Queens, that would become the United >tatU, 0Den. Timing had to resign as official Wimbledon host and was not to be welcomed back tmfil 1983, seven years before his death. In the meantime he had designed tennis wear for players like Chris Evert, Evonne Goolagong, Martina Navratilova and Virginia Wade. Tennis wear evolved as well, rendering Moran's outfit relatively tame by today's standards. "Gussie wasn't a revolutionary," Tinling once told The Times. "She wore the dress for two reasons. She wanted to look good, and the shorter dresses allowed her to move more freely on the court." Gertrude Agusta Moran was born on Sept. 8, 1923, in Santa Monica, Calif., and grew up in a grand Victorian house overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Her father, Harry, was a sound technician at Universal Studios, and her mother, Emma, was a housewife. Moran said she learned to play tennis when she was 11. While competing on a junior circuit, she and other young players were sometimes invited to play at Charlie Chaplin's house on Sumday afternoons, trading volleys with stars like Greta Garbo and Olivia de Havilland. Daring World War II, after her older brother was declared missing in action, Moran joined the war effort, going to work at the nearby Douglas Aircraft Company. She was well into her 2os when she joined the amateur tennis circuit, in 1947, relatively late for a newcomer. But in nine months she won three major tournaments. Her victory in the National Indoor Tennis Tournament in March 1949 was on the wooden courts at the Seventh Regiment Armory in Manhattan, where she defeated Nancy Chaffee. Moran retired from amateur tennis in August 195o and signed a one -year, $75,000 contract to play on a professional tour run by Bobby Riggs. Playing alongside Pa ffi iie Betz, Moran did not do well on the tour and left it after the year was up. She then began playing exhibition matches at nnilitary bases and hospitals as part of a tour managed by the tennis great Bill Tilden. She also joined a U.S.O. tour. Moran went on to work in radio as a sports director and in television hosting interview shows, all in Los Angeles. She was also a radio sportscaster in New York on WMGIVI, marketed her oven line of tennis clothes, wrote for tennis magazines and taught tennis. In 1970 she joined a U.S.O. tour in Vietnam and sustained broken bones when a helicopter in which she was riding was shot down. She continued to compete in tournaments into her early 4os, Neworth said. She also publicly spoke of having abortions and of being found backstage beaten and raped during a Lawrence Welk concert at a Santa Monica centennial celebration. There was no arrest. Moran had three marriages, none lasting more than two years. She had no children. In her later years she went from job to job, often living in reduced circumstances after losing her home in the 1g8os. At one point, largely supported by friends and fans, she was reported to be living with cats in a single room in a run -down building in Hollywood, the curtains made of bedsheets. In recent years she sold her tennis memorabilia and autographs online. At the height of her celebrity, Moran expressed frustration with all the attention she was receiving, some of it, in the gossip columns, exasperating. It was a Wimbledon title that she wanted more than anything else, she said. "Publicity follows me," she wrote in an article for The A.P. at the time. "I cannot help it if people cook up phony quotes about engagements with tennis players I've never even seen off the court. I am interested in clothes I can play tennis in, not in creating a sensation and certainly not in anything anyone at all would consider in poor taste." Daniel E. Slotnzk and William McDonald contributed reporting. 4 This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: Correction: Jannalgj 2¢, 2013 An obituary on Saturday about the tennis star Gussie Moran, who became famous for competing while wearing a short skirt and lace- trimmed panties, misstated the name of a tournament at which similar attire was later banned, and the year that ban was issued. It was the United States National Championship, not the United States Open, and the year was 1951, not 1952. (The tournament's name was changed to the United States Open in 1968, when professionals were first allowed to compete.) Because of an editing error, the obituary also misidentified WMGM in New York, where Ms. Moran was at one time a sportscaster. It was a radio station, not a television station. 61 Attachment d Friend's hove kept tennis star Gussy -oran gn the game to the end JIIURAaary 19, a 013 Bill Dsvyre When the former Wimbledon competitor struggled in poverty late in life, a well -off tennis enthusiast stepped in to help. Financial support led to a longtime friendship. Everyone deserves life with dignity in their final years, whether you dug ditches or played tennis on the world's most famous stages. Gertrude "Gassy" Moran did the latter. She also got that deserved dignity because of the extraordinary kindness of a woman possibly as quirky as Moran was herself — this other woman wears a $15,000 Rolex that she painted purple with nail polish to hide the gold. We shall call her Lovey Jurgens, because that's Avhat she will allow us to call her. Nothing else. No bending. No exceptions. The Los Angeles tennis community knows who she is and everybody else only needs to know that her story is true and exceptional. Twelve years ago, Jurgens got an email from Mark Winters, an official at the Southern California Tennis Assn. Winters knew that Jurgens, then in her late 40s, was a woman of means and somebody who played tennis, taught it and cherished the idea of preserving its memories. The email said that Gussy Moran, the fanned "Gorgeous Gussy" of Wimbledon lace- panties fame, was within 36 hours of being evicted from her small apartment near Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. "Can you help ?" the email asked. Jurgens was there in 30 minutes and has been back to the small apartment with the "1 /2" in its address thousands of times in those 12 years. Her last trips were Thursday and Friday, when she cleaned it out for the final time. Moran, 89, had died there Wednesday night. "There is a big hole in my heart," Jurgens says, "but being with Gussy was worth every ounce of energy I used and every penny I spent." Moran was written off years ago by many in the Los Angeles tennis community, especially by those who didn't care enough to make the effort to really know her, as a hopeless recluse. She was a world - class tennis player in her prime — she got to one doubles final at Wimbledon — but not a Pauline Betz or an Alice Marble. She was a friend of Charlie Chaplin, she was married and divorced three times, she held jobs in television and other media, but never for long. Besides, her fame had been gained, not completely to her dismay, by wearing a short skirt that revealed lace panties at Wimbledon in '49. Moran, whose given name was Gertrude and ahvays preferred to be known as "Gussy" not "Gussie," wanted to make a fashion splash at Wimbledon that would be in line with her outgoing personality and showcase her pretty legs. Today, her outfit would be considered modest, even bland. But in 1949, it set photographers and Wimbledon officials into a tizzy, each for a different reason. By the time Jurgens showed up at her door, life had left Moran with a modest monthly Social Security check and little else. There were rags stuffed into cracks around the windows, little furniture and barely enough to make ends meet. What remained was plenty of spirit. They became friends. They argued and disagreed, but never split. Moran accepted her fate, but was also fiercely independent. Every month or so, Jurgens would give her a packet of cash, usually $2,000 in either $10 bills or $2o bills. She also hired a driver for her so Moran could get to things such as doctors' appointments. "But she wanted her own driver, one that we had fired," Jurgens says. "So she kept him and paid him herself. He was handsome, and she never lost her eye for a good - looking man." Besides her three husbands, Moran had many lovers and once told author and noted sportswriter Roger Kahn, whom she also dated, that the most amazing thing she had ever done in her life was "the night I Gwent to bed with King Farouk." Moran had cats in her apartment, which became part of the recluse bag -lady image. But Jurgen says she was never a classic cat lady. "They found her," Jurgens says. "She didn't find them. She just kept food out so they wouldn't starve. None of them had names." Moran stayed contemporary. A friend introduced by Jurgen, columnist Jack Neworth of the Santa Monica Daily Press, mentioned Bono to Moran one day on the phone and she quickly told him that she was quite fond of U2. "Eighty -nine years old and she knows U2," Neworth says. She didn't bemoan modern -day tennis or make fun of the advantages of the new equipment. She just told Jurgen she would have loved to have tried some of those rackets. "To the end," Jurgens says, "Gassy was alert, aware and amazing." When the colon cancer got bad recently and Moran was hospitalized at Good Samaritan, where Jurgens says she was treated like "VIP royalty," there was a need to establish her next step. The options were nursing homes or home hospice. Home hospice was a problem because Moran's apartment had no stove, refrigerator or microwave. Moran wanted to go home, so Jurgen bought the stove, refrigerator and microwave. And more. "It was just a week ago, and we were sitting on her hospital bed, looking at carpet colors," Jurgens says. "I had all the whites and the beiges, but I knew she always wanted a red carpet. She said, 'C'mon, girl. Let's go red."' By the end of the neat day, the appliances and all the red carpet were in. Next, Moran had to sign herself out, to the hospice care, which is usually the final stop before death 2 "So there she is," Jurgen says, "knowing what she is signing, and she is telling the nurses to be nice to me — yes, to me — because I had lost my husband this summer. That was her. Complicated and full of love." Sometime next week, when Jurgens, as executor of Moran's will, gets the ashes, a group of friends will gather and release them into Santa Monica Bay. That was Moran's wish. It will be a dignified ceremony for a life that ended in dignity. That was Jurgen' doing. bill.dwyre @latimes.com 3 Attachment E Overvim of Reed Park Tennis Courts Overview of Reed Park Stadium Court with Sign Locations Sign 1 and Sign 2: "Gussy Moran Stadium Court" Sign 3: Didactic Sign to be mounted on building wall facing court