All, I sent an email with a question regarding the alignment of drawers with the immediately preceding headline.
The "problem" is still occurring, however, the "problem" is resolved after I run the org-lint utility on the file. Note that running org-lint fixed the "problem" not only with the file that was "linted", but with all the org mode files (which also showed the "problem"). I am writing to withdraw my question (my org mode setup is working), but also to mention that there appears to be some side-effect to running org-lint. This side-effect may prove be a latent bug that would affect future updates/revisions to org mode. Thank you. Frank. Emacs : GNU Emacs 25.2.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2017-04-24 Package: Org mode version 9.1.2 (9.1.2-32-g271e58-elpaplus @ c:/USR/FJM/APP/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20171106/)