The festivities were marked by a 21-gun salute by the Princeton University Field Artillery ROTC and an invocation by the Right Reverend Paul Matthews, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey. The President received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Princeton University the same day. Nighttime illumination of the Monument was part of the original plan for its construction, but it was only in 2007, 85 years after the completion of the Monument, that the lighting work finally got underway, after a successful fundraising effort by the Princeton Parks Alliance. Charles Stone of the New York firm Fischer Marantz Stone designed the lighting scheme. After years of neglect and unsuccessful restorations, the monument underwent a professional conservation treatment in 2006 and 2007, as part of the State of New Jersey historic preservation initiative. The treatment was carried out by Aegis Restauro, LLC led by conservators, Zbigniew Pietruszewski and Joanna Pietruszewski, and Farewell, Mills and Gatsch Architects. In September 2007, the Monument was ceremoniously rededicated when the lights were switched on for the first time. The inscription on the rear face of the monument, composed by Andrew Fleming West, reads:   "Here memory lingers to recall the guiding mind,"   "Whose daring plan outflanked the foe and turned dismay to hope,"  "When Washington, with swift resolve, marched through the night,"  "To fight at dawn and venture all in one victorious battle for our freedom." A Latin phrase reads:   "Saecula Praetereunt Rapimur Nos Ultro Morantes Adsis Tu Patriae Saecula Qui Dirigis" "The ages pass away. We, too, though lingering, are hurried on. O Thou who guides the ages, stay to guard our land."