to seat 1,800 people, Wesley Chapel annually hosts the West Virginia United Methodist Annual Conference each June. The "Conference Sunday" service, the culmination of the Conference, always fills Wesley Chapel to standing-room-only. Wesley Chapel also provides a fantastic venue for the Arts. Several campus musical groups perform in the Chapel each semester, as well as artists who visit WVWC as a part of its annual "Arts Alive" Program. Many world-renowned artists have performed in Wesley Chapel over the years including a memorable performance by Maynard Ferguson, who famously performed a trumpet solo from the pulpit. Written histories Haught, Thomas W., West Virginia Wesleyan College 1890-1940, Buckhannon, WV: West Virginia Wesleyan College Press, 1940. McCuskey, Roy, All Things Work Together for Good to them that Love God, Buckhannon, WV: West Virginia Wesleyan College Press, ca. 1950. Miller, Brett T., Our Home Among the Hills: West Virginia Wesleyan's First 125 Years, Virginia Beach, VA: The Donning Company Publishers, 2014. Plummer, Kenneth M., A History of West Virginia Wesleyan College, 1890-1965, Buckhannon, WV: West Virginia Wesleyan College Press, 1965. Notable alumni Maggie Anderson (born 1948), poet Ken Ash (1901–1979), baseball player Chalmers Ault (1900–1979), American football player William E. Baker (1873–1954), judge Pamela Balch, academic; 18th president of West Virginia Wesleyan College Len Barnum (1912–1998), American football player Cliff Battles (1910–1981), American football player Thomas Bickerton (born 1958), bishop Sheriff Blake (1899–1982), baseball player Shannon Breen (born 1989), American football player Jim Brogan (born 1958), basketball player Lewis C. Cantley (born 1949), cell biologist Ted Cassidy (1932–1979), actor Robin Davis (born 1956), jurist Ray Dorr (1941–2001), American football player William Flanagan (1901–1975), American football player Matt Foreman, activist Denise Giardina (born 1951), novelist L. J. Hanifan (1879–1932), economist John Kellison (1886–1971), American football player Jason Koon (born 1985), poker player Oscar Lambert (1890–1970), athlete Jean Lee Latham (1902–1995), writer Blanche Lazzell (1878–1956), painter John F. McCuskey (born 1947), justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia Irene McKinney (1939–2012), poet Jim Miller (1908–1965), American football player Scott Douglas Miller, President of Virginia Wesleyan University, former president of Bethany College, Wesley College, and Lincoln Memorial University Greasy Neale (1891–1973), American football player Daniel Pitt O'Brien (1900–1957), politician Okey L. Patteson (1898–1989), politician Anthony Peters (born 1983), American soccer player Nelson Peterson (1913–1990), American football player Edward G. Rohrbough (1874–1956), politician Harry Shriver (1896–1970), baseball player Stephen Skinner, politician Margaret Smith (born 1952),