First off, thank you all for your input.
I just got back from an extended ride around town (with the windows all the way down). The clutch appears to have started behaving much better.
Upon first start up with a cold engine, the fan was just barely heard at cold idle RPM levels. When I pulled onto my main street, I accelerated slowly to 30mph, the fan got more audible as the RPMs rose to about 2100 before I had to stop for a stop sign. I kept driving and could hear the fan roaring more as I accelerated, but then after a few signal lights, I could not hear the fan anymore. (Temperature gauge was hovering below 80C at this point.)
So then I started accelerating much more briskly, hitting 3000 to 3500 RPM before shifts, the fan was no longer roaring at all.
I had to stop for fuel and it took a total of 10 minutes as the gas pump was really slow and the receipt printer was out of paper. I had to go in to get a copy.
When I turned out of the gas station' lot, I accelerated slowly and could hear the fan roar for that initial acceleration, but it stopped roaring after every stop and go after that.
Now that I had more confidence in the clutch, I drove to a street with a 55MPH limit and gunned it from a stop sign. 1st gear shift at ~6000RPM, 2nd gear shift at ~6000RPM, fan nowhere to be heard.
So the lesson here, at least for me... even if your fan clutch MAY have been stored improperly by the vendor and appears to be malfunctioning or "always 100% engaged", just double check your installation and drive the car carefully for a bit, give the clutch a few heat cycles, it may start behaving as it should.
Thank You all again for your input.