Oral History of Sharon Lee Fales Conducted on February 10th, 2025 By Mary Katherine McNamee
Transcript of Interview of Sharon Fales by Mary Kate McNamee.
Interviewee
Fales, Sharon Lee
Interviewer
McNamee, Mary Kate
Interview Date
2-10-2025
Description
Sharon Fales, widow of Dr. James Fales, met her husband in college while pursuing a degree in education. She became a first-grade teacher as James advanced in his engineering career. They later moved to Athens when James accepted a teaching position at Ohio University. Over his 20-year tenure as Chair of the Industrial Technology Department, Dr. Fales also served as Director of the Center for Automatic Identification at Ohio University, was Professor Emeritus, Associate Director of the Robe Leadership Institute, and Leader-in-Residence at the Global Leadership Center. Together, Sharon and James endowed an annual scholarship for non-traditional students, as Dr. Fales was, at times, a non-traditional student himself and always maintained a soft-spot for those in the same position. In this interview Sharon talks about her life with James here in Athens, at Ohio University, and beyond.
This interview was conducted as part of a class project for Recording Memory: Methods and Uses of Oral History, Spring 2025, Alexander G. Lovelace (Ph.D.) Instructor
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Keywords
Sharon Fales, Dr. James Fales, Engineering, Industrial Technology, Global Leadership Center, Ohio University, Athens Ohio, barcode, James Fales Scholarship, Oral History, 2025
Disciplines
Oral History
Publication Date
Summer 8-11-2025
Interview Location
Athens, Ohio
Digital Publisher
Ohio University Libraries
Document Type
Oral History
Duration
00:28:44
File Format
audio/mpeg
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Fales, Sharon Lee and McNamee, Mary Katherine Grace, "Oral History of Sharon Lee Fales Conducted on February 10th, 2025 By Mary Katherine McNamee" (2025). HIST 4798/5798: Recording Memory: Methods and Uses of Oral History. 6.
https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/hist4798/6
Comments
Interview transcript provided by Mary Kate McNamee.