With the death of Doctor George W. Smeltz at age eighty-three psychoanalysis lost another of its pioneers. His fifty-four years of unflagging commitment to analysis began with his auditing Freud's study sessions in 1913-14, continued over more than twenty-five years of relative isolation as 'the first psychoanalyst west of the Alleghenies' and the only qualified analyst in Western Pennsylvania until his teaching activities began to attract and develop younger men in the field. He was active as a training analyst, first at the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute and later at the Institute of the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis. Quietly devoted to his identity as teacher and physician, George Smeltz labored for over thirty years in the School of Medicine of the University of Pittsburgh, bringing psychoanalytic concepts to the medical student and practitioner, and becoming Professor and Chairman of its Department of Psychiatry.