Helen Edwards as a mentor

For this aspiring physicist to have been in Helen Edwards group was really to have had the honor of being an apprentice in the guild of particle accelerator builders. This physicist will reminisce about his youthful days of being in the Fermilab A-Zero Photoinjector group and the direct impact it has had on his career. Beyond my specific case, Helen’s mentorship was global and impacted numerous accelerator personnel. Her understudies are now successful members of many institutions and agencies, such as Fermilab, SLAC, BNL, ANL, ORNL, LNAL, TJNAF, DOE, DESY, CERN, ESS, to name a few. I will will share examples, anecdotes and adventures to convey her ability as a mentor as well as demonstrate how her legacy continues.