After the program, guests mingled in the hangars of the carrier and some descended on local bars for planned and unplanned alumni functions.

The event was the third “Your Harvard” gathering since the start of the campaign, and the first on the east coast. The first two drew hundreds of attendees each in London and Los Angeles. The next is scheduled for October 24-25 in Dallas, Texas.

As attendees approached the carrier before the event, a group of about a dozen protesters objecting to the treatment of workers at the Boston-Cambridge DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Hotel, which is housed in a University-owned building on Soldiers Field Rd., distributed fliers. Employees there have been agitating for fair process unionization.

“This event is a centerpiece of that campaign...administrators, President Faust, and important alumni donors will be here,” said protester Gabriel H. Bayard ’15. “We hope to inform them that Doubletree workers are part of the community and deserve the respect that they are asking for.”

—Staff writer Matthew Q. Clarida can be reached at matthew.clarida@thecrimson.com Follow him on Twitter @MattClarida.

—Staff writer Theodore R. Delwiche can be reached at theodore.delwiche@thecrimson.com. Follow him on twitter @trdelwic.