Lin is one of the techies who frequently receives calls. "One person or another gives me a call, and I come in and work," she says.

The tasks vary, and can require from two or three people for a few hours to the 15 people who worked an entire evening on the Dunster House Opera, Adomanis says.

Army C. Briggs '96, one of the more active techies, says she "learned everything right there... Chuck [Adomanis] taught me everything I know. Then, you teach other people. It's wonderful, wonderful."

Adomanis insists that no prior skills are necessary to become a techie, except the innate ability and desire to have fun.

"Members love tech but don't want to get stuck in the rut of being committed. We accept everyone and never turn anyone down... we always want to have a good time."

Lin says her participation in the group has been "a real bonding experience."

"It gets late and people get silly. We always have a lot of good laughs," she says.

Briggs says she enjoys working in Dispatch Tech.

"It's a group of people that I think are really fun, really talented, really laid back. There's no competition and a lot of camaraderie. I never had an older brother, and it's kind of like hanging out with a bunch of guys," she says.

Briggs likens the activity to a "huge arts and crafts that you work on all the time."

It involves "a lot of building, a lot of carpentry work... You just hang out and pound things with hammers."

Briggs recalls the Leverett House Cabaret, on which she worked last year. "We built a huge bridge, nine feet high and six feet wide, that the dancers were supposed to dance on." She says the dancers were scared to death to cross the bridge, but the techies' work held up throughout the show.

Adomanis insists that the group stays together because of the friendship and group spirit shared by the members. "We get the job done and have a great time...We're more open, so people are more willing to commit time. People don't mind giving up a Thursday or Friday night. It doesn't feel like work."

Members say Dispatch Tech is in constant expansion, recruiting students through registration, HRDC contacts, and mostly by word of mouth.

"My name travels fast. I have a beeper, which has become a valuable asset," Adomanis says.

Adomanis is also the technical liaison to the HRDC board, as well as a member and a resident expert for the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan players.

He says the Dispatch Tech has acquired the reputation as an integral part in Harvard's the-atrical community.

"I can't think of a show that went up last spring where Dispatch Tech or one of its members wasn't thanked in the program," he says.