When asked as how Dr. Demirdjian would like to be remembered, he said:
As someone who genuinely tried to be
a professional educator serving students;
Also as someone who prized ...
All my bridges may burn
All my ships may sink
I still would not cry
But when my friends abandon me
It's only then that I would die
His
favorite trails are north of Camp Pendleton and near the Santa Ana Mountains.
Chess:
His favorite opponents are friends and colleagues. Travel: 
Favorite destinations 
include
Torremolinos and the Costa del Sol in Spain and Morocco. Cycads:
(they look like dwarf palm trees.) He has a cycas media from Australia
that is 9 feet tall. It may be the tallest one in Southern
California. Predictions that Came True:
Houston would win its third NBA championship and CSULB would have a great
stadium (The Pyramid).
Sabbatical: In the fall of 1995, he studied methods of integrating
the Internet into the curriculum.