Hi Chad, and thanks for the effort. And thanks to Chip Hyde of course, too. This is actually the most specific answer I've had so far.

I suppose what confuses me about "higher vs. lower" in these discussions is that about 50 percent of the Pattern manuevers are still flown inverted, and so that makes me wonder about these design decisions. After all, a low-wing design is a high-wing design, when inverted, right?

Anyway, unless more readers here post something I haven't seen before, I'm proceeding with my original plan, which is to mount the horizontal stabilizer on the thrust line, and the wing about one wing thickness lower than that.

An image of the design is attached. Thanks again for taking the time to help.