AMENDMENT TO
                                EXECUTIVE SALARY
                             CONTINUATION AGREEMENT


         This Amendment (the  "Amendment") to the Executive Salary  Continuation
Agreement (the "Continuation Agreement") is made and entered as of this 21st day
of May,  2001 by and among JAMES R. LAUFFER (the  "Executive"),  FIRST  NATIONAL
BANK OF HERMINIE,  a national banking association ("FNH Bank"), FNH CORPORATION,
a  Pennsylvania  corporation  and the parent  corporation  of FNH Bank  ("FNH"),
PROMISTAR FINANCIAL CORPORATION,  a Pennsylvania  corporation  ("Promistar") and
PROMISTAR BANK, a national banking association ("Promistar Bank");

         WHEREAS,  Promistar  and FNH are  parties to an  Agreement  and Plan of
Reorganization  dated as of February  24, 2001 (the "Merger  Agreement"),  which
contemplates  that FNH would  merge with and into  Promistar  and FNH Bank would
merge with and into Promistar Bank (collectively, the "Mergers");

         WHEREAS, the parties to this Amendment are parties to an Employment and
Severance  Agreement dated as of the date hereof (the  "Employment and Severance
Agreement")  which will be effective as of the Effective Time (as defined in the
Merger  Agreement) and contemplates an amendment to the Continuation  Agreement;
and

         WHEREAS,  the parties  hereby  intend to evidence the  amendment to the
Continuation Agreement contemplated by the Employment and Severance Agreement.

         NOW,  THEREFORE,  in  consideration of the mutual promises set forth in
the Employment and Severance Agreement and as hereinafter set forth, the parties
hereto agree as follows:

1.  TERMINATION OF THIS AMENDMENT TO THE CONTINUATION AGREEMENT.

         If  the  Effective   Time  does  not  occur,   this  Amendment  to  the
Continuation Agreement shall be without force and effect and shall be terminated
in its  entirety  without  action by any party  upon  termination  of the Merger
Agreement.  Without  limiting the generality of the foregoing,  if the Effective
Time does not occur,  the Mergers will not occur, the Executive shall retain all
rights  he has or may have  with  respect  to FNH Bank  under  the  Continuation
Agreement and neither  Promistar nor Promistar Bank will have any obligations to
the Executive under this Amendment to Continuation Agreement.





2.  AMENDMENT TO SECTION IV OF CONTINUATION AGREEMENT.

         Section IV of the  Continuation  Agreement is hereby amended to add the
following sentences at the end thereof to read as follows:

         "Provided further, if, at or before the time of the consummation of the
merger  of the Bank  with and  into  Promistar  Bank,  the  shareholders  of FNH
Corporation,  a Pennsylvania  corporation and the parent corporation of the Bank
("FNH"),  approve the  elimination of offsets under Section IV of this Executive
Salary  Continuation  Agreement as contemplated  under Section 6 of that certain
Employment and Severance  Agreement by and among the Executive,  the Bank,  FNH,
Promistar and Promistar Bank dated as of May __, 2001,  (i) the second  sentence
of this  Section IV shall no longer have any force and effect,  (ii) there shall
be no offset to the benefit  determined under the first sentence of this Section
IV and (iii) an amount equal to the present  value of the amounts due under this
Section  IV shall be  deposited  in a  grantor  trust  held by an  institutional
trustee with trust powers."

2  EFFECT ON OTHER PROVISIONS OF THE CONTINUATION AGREEMENT.

         Except as amended in this  Amendment to  Continuation  Agreement,  each
other  provision of the  Continuation  Agreement  shall remain in full force and
effect.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Amendment to Executive
Salary Continuation  Agreement to be executed and delivered as of the date first
above written.


WITNESS:                                     EXECUTIVE

/s/ Sharon Migliozzi                        /s/ James R. Lauffer
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                                                  James R. Lauffer



ATTEST:                                  FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF HERMINIE

/s/ Anthony P. Zello, Jr.
-------------------------------             BY /s/ V. David Lavella
                                               ------------------------------
                                            Title: Secretary of Board


ATTEST:                                  FNH CORPORATION

/s/ Anthony P. Zello, Jr.
-------------------------------             BY /s/ Jay A. Miller
                                               ------------------------------
                                            Title: Director





ATTEST:                                  PROMISTAR FINANCIAL CORPORATION

/s/ Janet E. Gillen
-------------------------------             BY /s/ John H. Anderson
Assistant Secretary                            ------------------------------
                                            Title: Chairman & CEO



ATTEST:                                  PROMISTAR BANK

/s/ Janet E. Gillen
-------------------------------             BY /s/ Steven C. Ackmann
Assistant Secretary                            ------------------------------
                                            Title: Chairman, President & C.O.O.