Cherry Hill draws increasingly diverse crop of newcomers

When Pat McCargo graduated from Cherry Hill High School West in 1965, fewer than 1,000 African Americans lived in the township. McCargo was among only six black students to receive diplomas from the school that year. In a trend playing out in many of South Jersey’s older, established suburbs, McCargo, a lifelong Cherry Hill resident who has had four daughters graduate from her alma mater, finds herself living in a far more diverse community these days. Minorities made up 25 percent of Cherry Hill’s 2010 population, compared with 17 percent a decade earlier, according to recently released U.S. Census figures. http://bit.ly/htBFFP