Found the article, https://drivetribe.com/p/the-mid-week-long-read-the-unlikely-Krv8YRi7Rp-mOWzx1Tq2gQ?iid=PfKnS6odSY-HoLsQ0ZzszA.
The name of the engineer is Terry Pelton, who was also president of his fraternity at Ohio University in 1966-67, and sold my Dad his wooden Lyman runabout.