ABSTRACT
I met John Conway through my son. They were both members of my own Cambridge college, Gonville and Caius. When Mike Guy and his sister, now Anne Scott , became undergraduates in 1960, Conway was in his early years as a graduate student. It’s well known that graduate students are a low form of life, well below that of (undergraduate) “scholar,” for example. As a scholar, Mike had rooms in college for his three undergraduate years, but graduate students had to fi nd their own “digs.” So a useful symbiosis grew up: Conway shared Mike’s room until he fi nished his graduate studies, became a Fellow and regained the privilege of a col-
lege room. By then Mike was a graduate student and glad to avail himself of Conway’s room.
