GEORGE WILLIAM BACHMANN, JR.

Moving with his family to Santa Monica, California, in 1919, he attended local schools, Army and Navy Military Academy in San Diego, Menlo Junior College, graduating from Stanford University in 1936 and from the University of Southern California Medical School in 1941.

During his internship and residency at Los Angeles County Hospital, Dr. Bachmann started to specialize in anesthesia. He studied under Dr. Arthur E. Guedel, and became his close friend and admirer. Subsequently Dr. Guedel became godfather to George William Bachmann III.

Dr. Bachmann went with the 73rd Evacuation Hospital Unit from Los Angeles, Army Medical Corps, as Chief Anesthetist in February, 1942, to the China-Burma-India theater. He served with Dr. Gordon Seagrave, was medical liason officer with the Chinese Army at the front, having walked in with General Joseph Stillwell in 1943, and spent several months with Merrill's Marauders. He was promoted to Captain, and was with the 14th Evacuation Hospital Unit, as Chief of Anesthesiology, when it received the Presidential Unit Citation.

After 28 months of duty overseas, Dr. Bachmann returned to the United States and entered the private practice of anesthesiology in 1946 in Pasedena, California.

Dr. Bachmann married Miss Suzanne Sharp on June 9, 1945, in Hollywood, California. The Bachmanns were the parents of Karen Leigh, Lynn Elizabeth and George William III.

In 1947 he became a diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology. In 1953 he was offered a Fulbright Award for teaching anesthesia in India, an honor which he was unable to accept. After practicing anesthesiology in the Los Angeles-Pasedena area from 1946 to 1956, he came to Hawaii and served as head of the Department of Anesthesia at Kaukeolani Children's Hospital until the time of his death.

Dr. Bachmann died on July 3, 1959, in Honolulu at the age of 44.

He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Phi Rho Sigma fraternities, the Honolulu County Medical Society, the Hawaii Medical Association, and the American Medical Association. He was a Fellow of the American College of Anesthetists, a member of the American Society of Anesthetists, vice-president of the California Society of Anesthesiologists in 1952, and a member of the House of Delegates of the American Society of Anesthetists in 1953.

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