To welcome you. Barbara lucas, and the vice regents of George Washington mt. Vernon, also president sheila ba bair, Adam Goodhart and the board of Washington College. And the cofounders and cochairs and all the trustees of the institute. Founded in 2005, the 50,000 George Washington prize is sponsored by our three organizations and is awarded each year to the best work about the founding era. This is the first type the washington prize has ever been warded to a play. And i would add no one anywhere will be surprised that tonight it will be presented to Linmanuel Miranda for his astonishing hamilton. We will hear from lin miranda a bit later, bifirst firsbut firs recognize some of our distinguished guests. Among them, former premiere of bermuda, former u. S. Senator bill bradley, the former u. S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic and then ambassador to france, craig staple ton and his partner in diplomacy debbie stapleton. We also have the former undersecretary for domestic finance and a
The play. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. Good evening. Thank you. My name is jim basker. [ applause ] it is my pleasure and privilege to welcome you all to the 1211th presentation of the George Washington prize on behalf of the three cohosts of tonights decent. The first, regent Barbara Lucas the vice regents of George Washington mt. Vernon, also president sheila bair, Adam Goodhart and the board of Washington College. [ applause ] and the cofounders and cochairs and all the trustees of the institute. [ applause ] founded in 2005, the 50,000 George Washington prize is sponsored by our three organizations and is awarded each year to the best work about the founding era. This is the first time the washington prize has ever been warded to a play. [ applause ] and i would add no one anywhere will be surprised that tonight it will be presented to Linmanuel Miranda for his astonishing hamilton. [ applause ] we will hear from lin miranda a bit later, but first i want to recognize some
North of philadelphia but it looks like most of us will start the day with some sun and then clouds will start to increase. Eventually well see a little bit of place but looks like that will hold off until tomorrow. 32 degrees is your current temperature in philadelphia, 34 in allentown, 33 in wilmington, 31 in millville and 34 in wildwood. So a chilly start. Winds arent all that strong today but its enough to give you a wind chill of 25. So obviously bundle up. Similar to what you did yesterday and heres how temperatures look on your smartphone today. Storm tracker 6 app has the freezing mark in philadelphia right now. Probably down to 31 by 8 oclock and then by noon up to 40 and 3 oclocks temperatures going to be 44 degrees and that will be your high this afternoon before were back down top 38 so temperatures nice and for this time of year anyway and the winds are light. Karen we have some precipitation arriving during the day tomorrow and tomorrow night. Some of it will be snow. Ill